This is the question that the Eden Project is trying to answer at it’s Sexy Green Car show on the 23rd-31st May. I had a look at the site and to be honest I wasn’t finding the cars all that sexy, but then again I’m not the worlds biggest car fan!
The list of cars ranged from Citroen, Ford, Fiat, Honda and surprisingly Lotus! The Lotus was the one that caught my eye as you don’t expect a sports car to be green. So what exactly are it’s green credentials?
The Lotus Exige 270E Tri-fuel runs on a mixture of gasoline, bioethanol and methanol. The company is hoping to introduce the use of sustainable synthetic alcohols as fuels within 15-20 years. It’s maximum speed is 158mph which is pretty fast. The all important CO2 output is 100g/km running on E85 bioethanol or zero emissions on sustainable synthetic methanol. This is less than the Citroen C1 which has emissions of 109g/km. Well done Lotus!
So what does the car look like? Well as you can see it doesn’t look any different from a regular Lotus.
