Professor's Invention Lands First-Place Award, Could Save Million of Gallons of Fuel Every Day

Monday, June 29, 2009 - 08:35 in Physics & Chemistry

It's called a Plug-in Hybrid Retrofit Kit. It could double the average mileage per gallon. If 50 percent of the automobiles in America used it, it could save 120 million gallons of fuel per day--globally, as much as 600 million gallons per day. It will reduce our dependence on oil. It will reduce carbon emissions and could create 2,000 new manufacturing jobs. A potential foreign market is growing daily.

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