MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Alaska to Ushuaia in an electric car developed at the Imperial College London
An electric sports car developed by European engineers has finished a remarkable 26.000 kilometres road trip on the Panamerican Highway, travelling from near the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia without a single blast of carbon dioxide emissions. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“This was no clunky science project - all that horsepower enabled the car to reach 100 kph in just seven seconds and reach top controlled speeds of 200kph, the team said.” just, wow! I'll be there to see this super car ;)
Nov 18th, 2010 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does sound like an amazing car, No emmissions?
Nov 18th, 2010 - 11:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The world needs more of this type of technology.
I agree, this one is coming out “The Green Car of the Year award”, A fully charged battery and full tank of gas will allow the Volt to travel 310 miles.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.egmcartech.com/2010/11/18/2010-la-chevrolet-volt-wins-2011-green-car-of-the-year/
Good news for South America, Chile and Argentina are the largest producer of lithium, used in the batteries and Bolivia, I believe have the largest deposit of that mineral.
Good news for South America, Chile and Argentina
Nov 19th, 2010 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to piss on your parade
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286464/US-discovers-natural-desposits-gold-iron-copper-lithium-Afghanistan.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286464/US-discovers-natural-desposits-gold-iron-copper-lithium-Afghanistan.html
That's fantastic! The search for Osama Bin Laden = iron, gold, lithium cooper, oil, gas. The UK and the USA are always searching for new terrorists to kill civilians and to find iron, gold, oil, gas, lithium, copper. They're really good people.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Great achievement , and full credit to all concerned.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0BUT
The picture of the car seems to show it driving on the left side of the road.
Where on the journey was that possible??
“Where on the journey was that possible??”
Nov 19th, 2010 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anywhere when the road was quiet, just not legally.
What was good news has once again turned into a pissing match.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Zethee, does that honestly surprise you?
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