Here are just a few of the flashier cars driven on the Revolve eco-rally. Not only was there a Tesla, but also a herd of Lotuses (Loti?) powered by various means and constructed from a variety of materials. There was a bio-ethanol one, a methane powered one, a tri-fuel one (everything) and even one with body panels made from hemp.
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Apart from sitting in them or pottering round the car park, I didn't get to smoke the tyres of any of the sporty numbers, but instead had the Volvo S40 Driv-e, their new stop start job. Amazing that with just clever use of 'standard' engine tech they can squeeze upwards of 70mpg out of it...
We'd gone to take pictures of fw and a few of the cars. I'd envisaged parking the cars in a halo of fws but it was a very still night. Here's one solitary shot that I found on flickr...
Here's a pic of me and Tracey Smith and the methane powered van we travelled down to Brighton in. Methane has an equivalent octane rating of about 125 ron (nornal unleaded is 95-98) which in layman's terms means it goes like stink. It was by far the quickest white van I've ever been in, and makes me want to get a methance powered project on the go....
and here's a photo of the participants, taken when we got to the crash-helmet building to see Boris. Nice to have Tower Bridge in the backgorund - this is about as far dwon the river as we got on the Earth Day firewinderwander.
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