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Shell, Gordon Murray and Osamu Goto to develop new ultra-compact ICE city car

Green Car Congress

Shell and Professor Gordon Murray go back way further; Shell sponsored the first car and engine Professor Gordon Murray ever built, in South Africa, when he was just 19. Why a petrol car? Together with the all-electric T.27 The vehicle’s fuel consumption was 97 mpg Imp (81 mpg US, 2.91

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