The Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project

Welcome to the Sexy Green Car Show!!

A Saab BioPower 95 Turbo Estate

With the climate in trouble and oil expensive, cars need to get greener, fast...
From March 30th to April 15th 2007 Eden will be packed with beautiful green machines. Admission is free with entry to Eden. Open 10am to 6pm, last entry at 4.30pm.

The transport sector is the third largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK, and the only sector where emissions are expected to be higher in 2020 than in 1990.

Despite the rise and rise of air travel, by 2010, 85 per cent of these emissions will still come from road transport.

Traditionally, environmental organisations have not had much to say about cars, except to try and persuade people not to use them, and more recently not to buy 4x4s. But here at Eden, in rural Cornwall, we are acutely aware of all our dependence on the private car. With reduced ticket prices for every other means of getting here, £1.2m of cycle tracks, and the best private facilities for coaches in the country, still 86 per cent of our visitors come by car. Why?

We realise that for many of us, much of the time, it is simply not practical or affordable to travel another way. This country’s transport infrastructure is currently based upon the car. So we started thinking about cars and what could make them greener… fast.

Cars of about the same size in the same class vary hugely in efficiency: the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has worked out that if everyone switched to the most efficient car in the same class, emissions from cars would fall by 30%. Exciting new developments in fuels, engines, aerodynamics and ultra-lighting all have the potential to make cars much more efficient… and they’ll be here all the quicker if we demand them.

Government schemes, such as the new fridge-type efficiency labels on cars, car tax bands based on emissions, and congestion charges are there to try and help us all make better choices, but what underlies the policy? What is a hybrid?… Can we really grow our own oil wells? What about hydrogen? When is a good car a dead car? Does eco-driving really work? Is it better to drive with the air-conditioning on or the windows open?

We thought we’d better share what we’d found out… and here it is, with a little help from our friends...
The first ever Sexy Green Car Show!
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