| Is this what the Eco-Dubai 1 will look like? |
Eco-Dubai 1 is a car that's being developed that could theoretically travel 1,000 km using just one liter of fuel! (Just to give you an idea, an average car could travel more or less 8km) The lightweight vehicle has reached its final stage of construction, so testing will begin in about two weeks.
The car took almost two years of work by students at the Higher Colleges of Technology Dubai Men's College. With half a meter wide, two meters ling and half a meter high, it's a pretty small car, no huge pieces or anything. It weighs about 25kg. which isn't that much either. It has a pretty sleek and modern design; it seems like a time machine pod or something along those lines to me, but it's still pretty cool. Bear in mind the actual car may be different from the image I found.
It is supposed to enter the Shell's Eco-Marathon this July 4-7 in Kuala Lumpur, in which it will compete against other similarly designed cars from around the world, although four of its copmpeters will be from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) too. The winners of the competition will be those that designed the car that could travel the farthest on just one litre of fuel.
One of the students behind the car, Ahmad Khamis Al Suwaidi, said: "Petrol is not going to last forever. One day we're going to run out. So in terms of developing a local eco-car industry, it starts with us. We're the future of the UAE in this." Pretty noble stance, huh. I don't think oil exporting countres would be too happy about this, though.
What do you think? Pretty interesting, I think. Feel free to comment or suggest topics for future posts. Thanks for reading!
Special thanks: Rosana Pochat
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