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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
So why haven't the manufacturers done that? Surely if one came up with a car that did 100mpg it would vastly outsell those doing 35mpg?
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Originally Posted by BrianL99
Because the government is investing billions into advancing electric technology for automobiles and zero for ICE vehicles. Like everyone else, the auto manufacturers have to go where the money is.
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Most major breakthroughs (and quadrupling the fuel economy of a car would be a major breakthrough) come from private companies and individuals, not from the government.
Throwing money at a problem is seldom the solution. Committing thinking people to it often is.
The returns would come from being the only company to make a car that has 4x the mpg of all the other manufacturers.
However, they've had 125 years in which to do it, and haven't achieved anything more than incremental increases, so it would be safest to accept that it isn't going to happen.