Axon Automotive has taken the wraps off the its new prototype at the Sexy Green Car show at the Eden project in Cornwall. The vehicle design and build was funded by the DfT through the Energy Saving Trust’s Low Carbon R&D Programme.
The car has been tested for good aerodynamics and light weight materials to achieve affordable CO2 reductions.
The Axon is built with carbon fibre and the vehicle weighs below 500kg which is half the mass of a conventional small car. Axon On a whole the European car industry needs to target 120g/km of CO2 by 2012 while the Axon car has already achieved a raw 85g/km of CO2. Axon claims that with further work on the powertrain and catalyst design.
Transport Minister Rosie Winterton said: “New technologies have a key role to play in helping tackle climate change and it is vital we make engines as green as possible. I’m delighted that funding from the DfT’s Low Carbon R&D programme has been put to good uses in developing this prototype, one of the lowest carbon cars around. I hope lown emissions engines like this one soon become commonplace on our roads.”
Simon McBride
