WindMobile: The first wind powered car does 5000km in Australia

The future’s just here! I mean in the absence of fossil fuels what can make your odyssey economical and green has been constructed by two German inventors: Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer. The duo have put their feet in the future by creating a prototype wind-powered car, dubbed 'WindMobile', that has already covered 5,000km across Australian desert. And the journey from Perth to Sydney cost them just $16 (£10). Isn’t it cool?

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Christened officially as Wind Explorer, the pod-shaped car will cover 100km with half the electricity required to run a washing machine. It is being touted as the world’s first self-sufficient wind powered vehicle.

It runs on lithium batteries that take a night to get charged by a mobile wind turbine. Weighing merely 200kg, the Wind Explorer can travel at more than 88.5km/h speed and has the title of being the first wind-powered vehicle driven across a continent to its credit.

Via: Metro

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Wind powered car- Wind Explorer