While the Morgan LIFECar may have been proudly on display at the 78th Geneva Motor Show demonstrating its slick hydrogen technology and sleek style, Lotus Engineering also unveiled an ingenious piece of vehicle craft at the show and impressed onlookers with its latest piece of automotive development – a cool car that runs on atmospheric CO2.
Based on the company’s latest research work, the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-fuel is the most powerful road version yet of the Exige and runs on any mixture of gasoline, bio-ethanol and methanol, a sign of Lotus’ latest development towards carbon neutral road transport.
Yet here’s the incredible part. Emerging and advanced technologies allow alcohol-based fuels such as methanol to be made synthetically from CO2 and hydrogen extracted from the atmosphere. This ensures that the Exige 270E Tri-fuel is not only a green car but also, ultimately a 100% environmentally-neutral vehicle that runs on the traffic’s CO2 emissions.
According to the latest projections, the technology will be available for introduction in four to five years. The only problem is that the supply infrastructure investment from governments and fuel companies could take 15 to 20 years.
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