Eco-rally shows off future fuels – wine, cheese, and sewage - lithium ion battery pack
A sports car made of cheese or wine, and a sports car that can travel more than 200 miles within 10 miles.
Minutes of electricity and "bio"
"Bug" driven by gas in sewage is one of the 20 cars that will participate in the ecological environment in the futurerally today.
Departing from Oxford this morning, the cars will be parked for two hours at Waterford's Building Research Institute Innovation Park-allowing electric vehicles to charge before continuing to the shopping center in central London.
It is now the fifth year, and the rally was sponsored by Bridgestone tyres and organized together with the Prince of Wales's environmental initiative Start to show the lowand zero-
Discharge vehicles.
In Britain, road transportation accounted for almost a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions.
While the price of electric vehicles is still higher than that of gasoline competitors, a recent study by the Ministry of Energy and Climate Change claims that costs can be balanced in the long run because electric vehicles are much cheaper to run.
To promote electric vehicles earlier this year, the government approved the construction of 11,000 charging points in the next 18 months, placing them in supermarkets, costing 400 m of streets and parking lots.
According to Andy Dinley, a spokesman for Bridgestone, the rise in gasoline prices and the recession are helping people turn to green cars.
"Cars that use fuel other than gasoline or diesel are no longer future concept cars, but today's production cars," he said . ".
Since this year, a number of automakers, including Mitsubishi, Nissan and Peugeot, have launched electric vehicles.
Ford Fox's electric version will be launched in 2013.
Last week, Ecotricity announced its first national charging network and plans to set up charging points at 27 highway service stations in the UK by 2014.
Lightning gt150 million electric super sports car0-
Reach 60 miles per hour in 5 seconds, with a maximum speed of miles per hour.
Distance: 200 miles.
It takes only 10 minutes to charge.
Green Rating: 4 Family friendly: 0Top Gear factor: 5 nemesis developed by f1 engineer powered by 96 lithium batteries at a cost of £ 750,000; 0-100mph in 8. 5 seconds;
Miles per hour.
Range 150 miles.
Green Rating: 5 Family friendly: 0Top Gear factor: 5 Peugeot 50821 21,975 hybrid, 1.
6 liter diesel engine and electric battery.
"Stop and start the system" means zero traffic emissions.
Green Rating: 2 for home use: 5 top gear factor: 2 Delta E-
4 Coupe£70,000-
The British company Delta Motorsport produced 80,000 pounds at a maximum speed of miles per hour.
Lithium ion batteries;
About 200 miles.
Green Rating: 4 Family friendly: 0Top Gear factor: 4 biodiesel Audi TT tdicustomm is offered by Turner race development and not for sale.
The top speed is 14 miles per hour, but biodiesel can travel 67 miles per gallon.
Green rating: 1 Family friendly: 2 top Gear factor: 3 Lotus Exige 270E Tri-
FuelPrototype, not for sale.
Able to operate on any combination of gasoline, methanol or biofuelsethanol.
Top speed 158mph and 0-60mph in 3. 88 seconds.
Green rating: 1 Family friendly: 0Top Gear factor: 4 Honda Jazz Mix: 15,995 an electric nickel-
The metal hydrogen battery powers 10 KW of the motor, driving it 63 miles per gallon.
Green Rating: 2 Family friendly: 5 top gear factor: 0 Tesla sports car powered by 6,831 lithium ion batteries.
The maximum speed is 30 miles per hour; 3. 7 seconds 0-
Charge 60 miles and 245 miles at a time.
Green Rating: 3 Family friendly: 0Top Gear factor: 5 Nissan LEAF £ 25,990 A lithium-
The maximum speed of the ion battery pack is 90 mph;
Charge 100 miles at a time.
Green Rating: 5 Family friendly: 5 top gear factor: 1 Biobug-aka "dung beet" prototype.
SaleTop's speed is not 10 miles per hour, but runs on the methane produced in the sewage.
Waste washed out in toilets for only 70 families in Bristol is enough to power bio-energyBug for a year.