sports car Archives – The Green Optimistic

Sleekest Hydrogen Powered Sportscar: Honda FC Sport

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:52:24 +0000

Though some blogs take it as a surprise, it's not something new coming from Honda: their vision of a sportscar powered entirely by a hydrogen fuel cell... not surprisingly, the same that's into their FCX Clarity, released this summer.

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Revolting: 114 mpg Avion Sports Car Rejected for Fuel Being "Too Cheap"

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:06:53 +0000

There was a sports car built in 1984 by Craig Henderson and Bill Green from Bellingham, Washington, and at that time it was able to set a record of 103.7 mpg for Guinness Book(in European terms, that's 2.27 liters/100km). Now they're reviving it with the help of the X-Prize Competition.

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Toyota Volta Hybrid Sportscar

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:10:15 +0000

While Toyota’s supremacy in the current hybrid car market is undeniable, they’re going to have to keep up the innovation if they’re going to stay on top of their game. And while they’ve been having some trouble with their lithium ion batteries of late, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t planning for the future. Witness […]

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