Lotus is a world-renown maker of lightweight performance cars. The UK based company has been making efforts to create more environmentally friendly vehicles using more environmentally friendly methods. For instance, a plan was created to erect a wind turbine grid in the centre of their test track, which could provide power to the nearby assembly plant.
Lotus is a world-renown maker of lightweight performance cars. The UK based company has been making efforts to create more environmentally friendly vehicles using more environmentally friendly methods. For instance, a plan was created to erect a wind turbine grid in the centre of their test track, which could provide power to the nearby assembly plant.
Their latest work on the green front is embodied in a machine called the Exige 265E- a specialized model which is developed to run on a mixture of fuels from 100% gasoline to E85 BioEthanol (15% gasoline).
Visitors to the Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers Show in Yokohama will be the first outside the UK to see the unique flex-fuel technology demonstrator which will be on display this month.
It’s said to be one of the fastest road-legal BioEthanol powered cars available. The 265E’s supercharged and intercooled 4-cylinder engine comes from the Exige S model and is capable of catapulting the 930 kg car to 60 in around 4 seconds with a 254 km/h top speed.
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