Georgetown Prep Student Puts Homemade Car to the Test

After a year of hard work and finding donors, senior Rami Bedewi is ready for his homemade car to make its 240-mile-long debut.

Bedewi, a 17-year-old from Potomac, has built a gas-electric hybrid car that gets more than 200 miles per gallon, the Gazette reported. He's going to put it to the test on Jan. 30 in the self-named "One Gallon Challenge," in which he tries to get from New York City to Washington, D.C., on just a gallon of gas.

The car is made mostly of store-bought parts, according to the Gazette, but its frame and circuitry were designed and built by Bedewi.

You can follow his trip in real time come Monday at the "One Gallon Challenge" website.

Read the full story in the Gazette.