Ford Mustang 110MPG 400 HP HP2g Inventor Comments on xPrize

Editors Note: I first met Doug Pelmear in his exhibition booth downstairs (auto journalists you know what that means) at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of years back. Doug had just driven his HP2g powered 1987 Ford Mustang through a snowstorm from his home base in Napoleon Ohio to Detroit.

Doug comes from a long line of car guy inventors and buiders and is himself the inventor of the HP2g, a 400 horsepower V8 Hybrid Engine with Variable Displacement and Electromagnetic Pulse drive that gets 110 MPG running on E-85 fuel in the real world, which accoring to my math is as beneficial to our countries need to reduce our dependance on oil as a gasoline vehicle that gets over 500 MPG, not a typo 500 MPG.

After learning more about his breakthrough 110 MPG E-85 Hybrid invention I asked him with a smile if he would still speak to me after the suits from the Detroit Big Three (ah history) started a bidding war when they saw what he had invented and proven. How could any car exec worth his salt not understand how Doug’s HP2g could fill the American car makers need for an immediate solution that would allow them to build and sell the big (profitable) cars North American drivers like and need, while marketing the gas mileage equivalent of 90% less gasoline than a Toyota Prius would use.

Coincidently that year at the Detroit show the xPrize noise began not more than 100 feet from where Doug’s 110MPG HP2g powered Mustang waited for its adoration…I said to Doug xPrize could save lots of time and effort and just write you a check for the $10 million, but that never happened.

In fact when the “winners” of the xPrize were announced a few weeks ago it blew my mind that Doug’s real world full- sized road warrior was not the winner, but instead the winner was what looked to me like just another science fair project. I e- mailed Doug a link to my story and asked him to please comment, below is his response.

Response to By Doug Pelmear
HP2g.com

Many people have asked me what I think about X PRIZE now it has ended. My thoughts are mixed with the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE competition.

First, I am delighted to have been a part of this event that spurred public awareness and creative thinking to find better ideas for transportation.

Congratulations to the winners in the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. We share the understanding of hard work and dedication of this project. Truthfully, if it wasn’t for the X PRIZE, I wouldn’t have brought out the HP2g Hybrid Engine for a few more years because of intellectual properties.

Next, I am disappointed with their verification tests. X PRIZE started out saying the test would be real world driving in city traffic, mountains and highways from New York to California. What happened to that part?

HP2g is “real world” and EPA Tested. It has been driven all over the U.S.A. from Ohio to Las Vegas, New York City’s Times Square, Atlantic City, Washington D.C. through the Great Smokey Mountains, to Mackinaw and back to Ohio. HP2g was driven in all types of weather. Example: It driven to the North American International Auto Show in a bad snow storm where you couldn’t see the road, but could hear the snow and ice dragging on the floor of the car. HP2g has navigated through the deserts of Southwest with hot temperatures, sand storms, rain and snow. HP2g has also been driven in high altitudes as much as 10,000’ in the Rockies with more than one rider, complemented by necessities for the trip, (suit cases, ice chest, emergency tools, spare parts…even a spare tire). HP2g has driven more than 38 hours straight through only stopping to stretch and switch drivers to prove product durability.

HP2g™ Hybrid Engine runs on E85 Fuel, 400 Horse Power (HP), 500 Foot Pounds of Torque (ft-tq) and averages 110 MPG. Our products are designed to power and carry the load of transportation's: workforce, emergency, agricultural and marine vehicles.

A senior citizen made a point to me by saying the X Prize cars are not designed for them. 6’5” person with hip replacements that wants to drive across country…NOT to be folded in half, Don’t forget about the mom with kids belted in back so close it is easy for them to fight.

The X Prize Completion was to be made for the average practical consumer.” What was considered: Big, Tall, Short, Parents, Elderly, or even Handicapped people? Were extreme weather conditions, high winds, rough terrain and or towing tested done at the track? I believe they fell short. Doug Pelmear HP2g.com

The Auto Channel xPrize Thoughts

But First Snide's Remarks: If I was Progressive Insurance I would ask for my sponsorship money back, because the results of this xPrize competition which was promoted as being a catalyst (like the fly into outer-space contest) for a reality breakthrough and to prod inventors to create vehicles to help get America and the world off of Oil Based Fuels, has not been the case. It looks like the winners (and most of the entries) are the same old, same old science fair engineering models...too bad.

We and many others hoped that the competition for $10 million bucks would have resulted in a plethora of unique and far thinking ultra-efficient "real" sized cars that could actually benefit our country. Uber MPG vehicles that real world motorists would and could buy from real world auto manufacturers and local new car dealers.

The x Prize for 100 eMPG, big whoopee doo...when an off-the-lot Flex-fuel (E85, like the winner uses) 2011 Chevrolet Malibu that is rated by our EPA at 23 MPG Highway can be said to get the equivalent of 138 MPG of gasoline without a 5 million dollar prize, now that's a realistic way to get off Big Oil's poison today. (see Alcohol and Driving DO Mix!