Photo: Azeem Hill and Simon Hauger at Poptech 2010. Via Kris Krug , Creative Commons You may recognize Azeem Hill. If you do, it’s because this 16 year-old kid helped build the world’s only high school-made super hybrid sports car. As a participant in an after-school workshop in Philadelphia run by Simon Hauger, he and his teammates dreamed up and built a sporty hybrid that goes from 0-60 in less than 5 seconds, yet gets 70 mpg on the highway and 100 mpg in the city. They entered the car in the Automotive X-Prize, and beat out numerous top competitors — MIT and multimillion dolla… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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This 16 Year-old Built a 100 MPG Hybrid Sports Car (Video)