 Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Now here is car that I’m sure many of us would love to have parked in our driveway. The XR3 is not a production car, nor is it owned by a major automaker. This vehicle is a do-it-yourselfer and was built by Robert Riley from Arizona.
The XR3 is something you would expect to see in a sci-fi movie or as a concept car in an autoshow, but this vehicle is all real and has some pretty impressive stats.
 The XR3 is essentially a plug-in biodiesel hybrid vehicle that can reach a top speed of 130 kph and can travel a distance of 65 km on the battery alone. The fuel economy is even more impressive going about 125 mpg or less than 2 litres/100km on diesel and 225 mpg (1 litre/100km) in hybrid mode. Let’s compare that to a small V8 pickup truck (say a Dodge Dakota). The pickup would cost approx. $23 for a 100km trip, whereas the XR3 would cost a mere $1.30. If you drove 100km per day, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year, the savings would be approx. $5600 in one year. Here’s the real kicker…the XR3 costs about $25,000 to construct, which makes pay-back VERY short.
courtesy of Eco-Can News
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