While the world’s attention may be on the Formula One cars setting pulses racing at this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, engines revved up for a very different kind of car show as some of the greenest cars in the world turned up at the Eden Project for the second Sexy Green Car Show event.
Building on the success of last year’s first-ever show, the Eden Project opened the Co-operative Insurance Eden Sexy Green Car Show with an array of the most energy efficient vehicles available to consumers today.
What began as a somewhat overcast summer morning, blossomed into life as the curtain of cloud raised, the sun emerged and the crowds descended on the Bodelva site in Cornwall, UK. Keeping a keen eye for any hydrogen-powered cars, gasworld attended the show and was pleased to see the first public UK outing of the Morgan LIFECar, the fuel cell-powered electric sports car built by Morgan Motor Company and produced in partnership with BOC among other company’s.
Four stacks of fuel cells convert hydrogen fuel into electricity to run an efficient motor generator attached to each wheel, while energy recovered during braking is stored in ultra capacitors and the vehicle delivers 0-60mph in around seven seconds.
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