Renewable entitlement

I have to admit to enjoy­ing watch­ing Top Gear even though in this day and age, it really is wrong to enjoy fossil-fuel burn­ing and car­bon emit­ting activ­ity but I sup­pose just watch­ing is ok and if the world ends just blame the organ­is­ers.

Hav­ing said that, I boldly pro­pose that the organ­is­ers of all motor-racing activ­ity have a carbon-emission cap as one of their race rules — so that this 100% elec­tric sports car, the Elec­tric Light­ning, can be one of the entrants.

0-60mph in 4 sec­onds, 700 bhp and 200 miles on a sin­gle charge says its some­thing worth con­sid­er­ing if you still like your car to be fast and mean while being eco-conscious. Only thing is, elec­tric cars are a lot qui­eter, and you’ll have to use the “pro­gram­ma­ble exter­nal engine sound gen­er­a­tor” to make it sound like a reg­u­lar car­bon emit­ting sports car.

And I’m also hop­ing that Top Gear comes round and starts fea­tur­ing electrics instead of, as this Guardian arti­cle reports, “rac­ing a G-Wiz elec­tric car against a table”.