Re: Brighton to London "Future Car Challenge"
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:48 pm
Nice who won!!!
RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge: Trophies awarded to:
A1 – Most Economic Small Passenger EV – TATA Motors Ltd, TATA Indica Vista Electric (Simon Clarke)
A2 – Most Economical & Environment Friendly Small Passenger EV – TATA Motors Ltd, TATA Indica Vista Electric (Simon Clarke)
B1 – None
B2 – None
C1 – Most Economical Small Passenger ICEV – Gordon Murray Designs Ltd, T.25 City Car (Gordon Murray)
C2 – Most Economical & Environment Friendly Small Passenger ICEV – Gordon Murray Designs Ltd, T.25 City Car (Gordon Murray)
D2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Regular Passenger EV – Volkswagen Golf blue-e-motion Electric (Jim Holder)
E2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Regular Passenger HEV - Toyota Auris Hybrid (Matt Sanger)
F2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Regular Passenger ICEV – BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics Diesel (David Ward)
K2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Sports EV – Lotus Elise S1 Electric (Russ Sciville)
L2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Sports HEV – Honda UK - Honda CR-Z Hybrid (Edd China/Dan Roberts)
N2 – Most Economic & Environment Friendly Multi-Purpose Electric vehicle – Zytek Mercedes-Benz Vito Taxi Electric (Neil Heslington)
R – Most Economic Light Commercial EV – Nicholson McLaren Citroen Nemo Van Electric (Neil McIntree)
T – Most Economic Light Commercial ICEV – Ford Fiesta Van 1.6TDCi ECOnetic Diesel (Jay Nagley)
The Public Choice – Vauxhall Ampera Extended Range EV – (Andrew Duerden)
Best Overall Private Entry As Chosen By The Event Judges – Lotus Elise S1 Electric (Russ Sciville)
Best Overall Entry As Chosen By The Event Judges – Volkswagen Golf blue-e-motion Electric (Jim Holder)
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Well done to our very own Russ for scooping the best private entry
I spoke to a fair few public folk and the general comment from joe public definately was "this is all well and good but where can I buy a EV at a reasonable price now"
The message is getting out though, definately more and more people REALLY want to buy an EV these days, at todays outing I definately got far more positive feed back than negative and the main thing was people wanted to know where they could get one.
Had a couple of folks say that they came up from Brighton VERY slowly , yes I know it was suppose to be an energy challenge but hey doing 20mph doesnt really show an EV or any low emission vehicle in a good light in my book, brings the term "milk float" to the fore front of folks minds in my view.
Many thanks to Kevin and Russ for displaying the BVS stickers on their vehicles, heard one person say "I didnt know there was a society for electric vehicles"
ChrisB
doesnt sound like I'm missing much though.