The motor racing industry knows it has to do something about the climate crisis. To put it bluntly, the sport won't survive because there won't be enough fuel.
So now as The Independent reports, teams from Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain have been competing at a track in Surrey in emissions-free souped up machines. Formula Zero, as it's known, has teams racing in electric cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The team putting it together hopes to be racing full-sized cars by 2011 and, perhaps, eventually to replace Formula One itself. That might be over-ambitious but it's a trend worth watching.
As Fast Company reports: "The IndyCar series already runs on ethanol, and the FIA (the sport's governing body) recently set up the Environmentally Sustainable Motor Sport Commission. By 2011, the FIA plans to harvest exhaust gases and heat for propulsion. But perhaps the most intriguing sustainability-minded racing vehicle is the Worldfirst ecoF3-a car made out of vegetables that runs on chocolate-derived biofuels."
Green motor racing. Mind boggling stuff. But watch this space.
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