Held the day before the more famous London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, the RAC’s Future Car Challenge pits economical gasoline-powered or diesel-powered cars against electric vehicles and hybrids.
This year’s overall winner was Gordon Murray’s T.27 electric city car. The T.27 competed against more than 65 entries including the latest technology from 11 major car manufacturers. The lightweight city car won ‘Most Energy Efficient Small Car (Prototype)’, ‘Best Overall Pure Electric Vehicle’ and ‘Best Overall Entry – RAC Future Car Challenge Winner’.
The T.27 covered the 57.13 miles from Brighton to London carrying two occupants, inside the allocated time using less than a dollars worth of energy – equivalent to 350 mpg and only 37 gm CO2 / km. On a full charge, taking only four hours, the T.27 can do more than 100 miles.
Other notable results included a rally prepared Honda Insight hybrid that achieved 93.8 mpg, and pre-production Golf Blue-e-Motion that used a reported 11 kWh/100km of energy for the journey.
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