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• Zero Emission Range Rover
  Srikant Rajan 01:11:58 pm on June 29, 2008 | 2 | # |
  Tags: electric cars, global warming, Hybrid, range rover, zero emission

  If you are environment conscious ,but do not wish to  give up your favorite Range Rover ,then take a look at UK based startup Liberty Electric Cars.This enterprise plans to invest £30 million in a business that will initially re-engineer conventional vehicles to convert them into all electric cars. Currently Liberty buys new rovers and minis and replace them with an electric engine to get a zero emission vehicle costing a royal £95,000 to £125,000 per vehicle.However plans are afoot to source empty "Rovers" to be fitted with electric engines to bring down the cost.

  This is an interesting approach to produce low emission vehicles.CEO Barry Shrier further says that even if the battery used in these cars is recharged using fossil fuel powered plants, the emissions from such cars would be a third of conventional vehicles.This however is not clear whether we are just trading tail pipe car emissions to more coal/fossil fuels.

   

• UK Technology Board to Focus on Hybrids
  Srikant Rajan 06:38:49 am on June 21, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Hybrid, hybrid taxis, jaguar, lotus engineering, luxury hybrid, zero emission

  The Government Technology Strategy Board of UK selected Lotus Engineering for its  low carbon vehicle development program. The total investments in the 2 projects allotted to Lotus, would be in the region £52 million. The Zero Emission London Taxi Commercialization project will have Lotus working alongside Intelligent Energy, LTI Ltd and TRW Conekt,in developing hybrid demonstrator vehicles.After further testing of these hybrids ,they will be inducted as commercial taxis by 2012 in London.Under the second project Limo-Green ,Lotus will work with Jaguar Cars Ltd, MIRA Ltd and Caparo Vehicle ,reengineer a basic Jaguar model and convert it into a low carbon,high end luxury hybrid .

  These 2 project will allow for investigation of a whole array of technologies ,specific to hybrid cars,right from the economy segment to the luxury .Thus these may allow UK to effectively position hybrid cars as a viable alternative to conventional vehicles.As Chief Executive, Iain Gray,Lotus Engineering puts it,"Such innovative technology will  help position British companies to benefit from the growing domestic and international demand for lower carbon vehicles."