With fuel costs topping $4.50 per gallon in some components from the country, a auto that expenses a fraction of a penny per mile to drive (and looks like it belongs on the street) is certain to obtain our focus. The 275-pound, 2,200MPG Celeritas appears to be the closest we have come to getting a solar-powered auto that could one day get for the streets, even so, which explains why the car scored first prize inside the Urban Concept category in this year's Shell Eco-marathon. Whilst it can only transport a single person (the driver),
the auto includes headlights, taillights, a trunk as well as backup cameras. Notably absent from this model are air conditioning along with a license plate -- the latter of which might (by natural means) be required before the auto becomes street legal. The Purdue University design team chose "Celeritas" (Latin for "swiftness") because the name for this soon-to-be-street-legal roadster, though inside a category that's notorious for slower automobiles, we wouldn't anticipate the prototype to fly past us in the quick lane. Possibly we are able to get Celeritas and IVy with each other for some alone time prior to we're dropping Hamiltons to get a gallon of regular?
