Volvo Develops New Green Racing Car for 2008 STCC Season

Volvo Car Corporation will develop a completely new racing car in 2008 and continue its work with bioethanol (E85) and Green Racing in the STCC (Swedish Touring Car Championship). The modern green racing car is based on the Volvo C30, the model that most clearly demonstrates Volvo's environmental technology on the market, with versions such as the Flexifuel and the upcoming 1.6D Efficiency.

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[TheSmoonge]

Actually, Lundix, Brazil, along with most of South America has been using ethanol for more than 15 years successfully, and guess what? They get the ethanol from SUGAR CANE, which produces much more ethanol per weight than corn. Get your facts before smarting off.

[TheVeneth]

@Lundix I agree.. but just let me use here plain logic.. You suggesting biology and ecology.. Why you are not suggesting it to regard of oil industries? or you consider etanol more dangerous to ecology? and what way? when you have dozens of developing countries who just waiting to any investments to be done.. where most of people living there are suitable to work in farming and horticulary anyway? i mean, c'mon.. just leave it.. for your own good..

[Lundix]

@TheVeneth You haven't studied much biology or ecology, have you ... well, this wouldn't be a suitable forum anyway. We have differing opinions, let's leave it at that.

[TheVeneth]

@Lundix Well, what you say here is simply not true.. etanol is basicly fully sustainable.. why? cos the plants (corn etc.) you used in fermentation will grow up again without any loss anywhere.. just get real.. again spamming here with nonsense, so people who would be potentially interested will lost the interest.. again if someone denies this.. is either dumb or hold for oil lobbyists.. "screech" simples!!

[Lundix]

@TheVeneth Wops, totally forgot this discussion ... Well, to sum it up: Using ethanol as fuel isn't all that different from using petrol, as far as sustainability goes. You take something out of the earth, you process it a bit, and then you burn it. None of the energy is returned, and so the level of fertile earth will be reduced over time. Electricity from solar panels and turbines is the way to go in my opinion. We won't run out of sunlight, wind, or gravity. Not any time soon anyway.

[TheSmoonge]

@alienmode you can, just hope that GM comes up with a better solution to what's available right now.

[alienmode]

@TheSmoonge because if any of those 'brown' companies ever exercise any sort of sovereignty then i cant buy a corvette?

[TheSmoonge]

@alienmode why the hate and name calling? All I'm saying is that it's successfully been done. I'm not saying we should do that in America, but there are alternatives to corn that researchers have come up with. We import most of our oil from the Middle East, why not import Sugar Cane from other countries like Hawaii, Fiji, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guadalupe, Guyana, Belize, Barbados, and the continent of South America? BEEPING BEEP!!! (censored myself)

[alienmode]

@TheSmoonge yea because there are plenty of places in the US with the climate to grow "SUGAR CANE".. they'll just have to get rid of hundreds of thousands of miles of tracts of corn land and change the weather a little bit first... FUCKING FAG

[captainalbator]

Or at least until they get bought by the Chinese :(

[captainalbator]

That I did not know. And that's very interesting. I'm seeing FlexFuel vehicles more and more here (NY City area), but there aren't a whole lot of E85 petrol stations.