{"id":617228,"date":"2009-12-31T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/eco-cars-richest-british-entrepreneur-aims-to-break-land-speed-record-in-wind-powered-ev\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T00:48:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T05:48:14","slug":"eco-cars-richest-british-entrepreneur-aims-to-break-land-speed-record-in-wind-powered-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617228","title":{"rendered":"Eco Cars: Richest British entrepreneur aims to break land speed record in wind-powered EV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2009\/12\/31\/ecotricity-nemesis_e8BaB_69.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"ecotricity nemesis\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Dale Vince to attempt electric land speed record.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Vince, the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity, will be attempting to break the land speed record in an all-electric vehicle dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/news\/the-nemesis-wind-car-first-public-appearance\">Nemesis<\/a>. The record currently stands at 137mph, which will be challenged by the wind-powered electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The car has been designed by Formula 1 engineers at the cost of about \u00a3400,000. During tests, the car hit a speed of 60mph in less than 4 seconds and has an operating range of about 150mph. Apart from its renewable charging capabilities, the all-electric vehicle can be powered in one hour from a high charge station or eight hours from the mains supply.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/30\/green-entrepreneur-to-attempt-electric-land-speed-record\/\">TheGreenCarWebsite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Dale Vince to attempt electric land speed record. Dale Vince, the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity, will be attempting to break the land speed record in an all-electric vehicle dubbed the Nemesis. The record currently stands at 137mph, which will be challenged by the wind-powered electric vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Azi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}