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The Open Source Car - UK - Unconventional Wisdom for Sustainability
UK -Daily Telegraph, by Sir John Whitmore -June 2006: -- We all face an environmental crisis. Hybrid cars and biofuels might be interim steps in the right direction, but they are not sustainable solutions. Conventional wisdom predicts great technical problems and cost in overcoming these problems. But what about unconventional wisdom?... Most people believe that the future will be powered by hydrogen, but that affordable fuel-cell vehicles are decades away. Hugo Spowers's engineering degree and MBA were sufficient to convince him that the barriers were neither technical nor financial but human. He formed a consortium with BOC, Morgan Cars, QinetiQ and Cranfield and Oxford universities, with funding from the DTI, to design a fuel-cell car with a difference. Spowers' company is called OSCar and the project is called LIFECar - LIghtweight Fuel Efficient Car... (Photo: The Ech2o, with driver Jack Dex, was designed by OSCar with Oxford University and BOC. It draws its power from a hydrogen fuel cell)
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