wind powered electric car Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:47:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Wind Powered Car Completes 5,000 km Journey Across Australia https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-explorer-electric-car-20110217/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-explorer-electric-car-20110217/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:47:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17173 An engineer from Germany and a television host have traveled almost 2,106 mile (5,000 km) in a lightweight electric vehicle powered by the wind. Dubbed Wind Explorer, the car does not only use electricity from wind turbines, but rather kites.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-explorer-electric-car-20110217/feed/ 1 17173 Nemesis, Ecotricity's Wind-Powered Electric Car Breaks Speed Record https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecotricity-nemesis-wind-electric-car-20101115/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecotricity-nemesis-wind-electric-car-20101115/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:09:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11792 Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity, a UK-based wind energy company, has presented their first high performance electric sports car. â€Ã…“Nemesis”, as it was â€Ã…“baptized”, is a wind-powered electric car that can effortlessly compete with a V12 Ferrari.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecotricity-nemesis-wind-electric-car-20101115/feed/ 0 11792 IBM Helping Denmark Develop Country-Wide Electric Car Network https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ibm-helping-denmark-develop-country-wide-electric-car-network-20090225/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ibm-helping-denmark-develop-country-wide-electric-car-network-20090225/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:43:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2720 I was saying the other year that Denmark is powered mostly by its wind farms, and that the energy generated by these wind farms is in excess. They want to build an electric car network that would operate across the country and that would use the excess energy and transport it to propel people from here to there, cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion.

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