In case you ever wondered what driving a kite-powered electric car across Australia must be like, it definitely looks sublime. The trip cost only around $US13 in electricity and took 18 days to complete, earning the German extreme sportsmen Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer three world records in the process. The pair hoped to inspire new, environment-friendly means of travel. [Treehugger]
Womp
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 1:24 PMOkay, now lets see them drive the thing around an ordinary, stobie pole filled, Adelaide street. That would be a “shocking” video.
Mogwai
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 1:46 PMConsidering the number of freight runs they do in these sorts of environments, whats to stop them building something like this on a truck for transporting bulk loads.
Daniel S
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 3:02 PMHaha, I should have done that one the way back from Perth.
Don’t think that my Rev 16m would move the Commodore though :(
Tom Reynolds
Monday, February 28, 2011 at 3:18 PMBe interesting when a road train coming the other way makes it reverse up at 120km/h…