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British lightweight sports car manufacturer Lotus Eco Elise has just sustained a sports car project, announced now available green technology Elise model, but with features that would soon make their way into the line of Lotus. Lotus Eco Elise extends the idea of environmentally friendly sports car past the idea of low-emission, look for the materials used and the environmental footprint of the manufacturing process.
Lotus sports car, and the Lotus Elise has always been known for their lightweight, eeking every ounce of performance from the engine specs that look like anything special on paper. Lotus Eco Elise has this concept one step further by knocking off an additional 70.5 pounds of featherweight Elise and using rooftop solar panels to power the electrical systems as far as possible, take another load of four Eco Elise in the cylinder of the engine.
When Lotus speaks of a holistic perspective in the creation of environmentally friendly sports car, playing the materials from which the car has a key role in this process. It was said that the environmental costs of materials and waste in the production of Toyota Prius generates more environmental protection is the cost of keeping your old car on the road for several years. Lotus aims to solve this puzzle with the Eco Elise, with a strong composite made mostly from sustainable hemp in the manufacture of body panels and spoiler on the new Eco Elise. Place of use of this material, as well as "sustainable" wool, not leather or plastic.
Even the carpets are made from renewable plant material, sisal, which Lotus Notes in Eco Elise for its durable properties. The new combination of instruments in the Lotus Eco Elise reminds the driver when it is an ideal starting point for maximum fuel efficiency in normal driving conditions shift. Eco Elise promises equal or better performance in the standard Lotus Elise S sports car, a green package that much more fully realized, which is simply reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the exhaust.
Although it sounds a little far-fetched that the Lotus Eco Elise have been given the green light for production, we hope Lotus comes through with a promise to use some of these green technologies in their sports car lineup, and in the near future.
Lotus Eco Elise: Trackday Warrior Turns Eco Warrior
[Courtesy of Lotus Press Release]
Lotus Eco Elise is a demonstrator at the British motor technology, capitalizing on the great advances in green technology.
Eco Elise project promotes a different perspective on "green" that do not revolve not only around tailpipe CO2. This holistic approach will be in accordance with a progressive culture, Lotus, Lotus ride to green automotive consultancy in the world.
Sustainable materials, hemp, eco wool and sisal for body panels and have trim and, combined with hi-technology, water based paint solutions, is presenting economical new environmentally friendly technologies have been developed. Green Power technology on display in the Eco Elise have been analyzed during the life of the vehicle.
Green gear change display is integrated into the dashboard to promote greener driving as well as a weight loss program, which the holistic approach. Energy consumed in the production car has been evaluated, because a 3R reduce, reuse and recycling.
Mike Kimberley, CEO of Group Lotus plc commented "This Eco Elise is a beautiful example of the advanced and affordable green technologies Lotus develops, we are on the cutting edge of environmental technology and are determined to go forward with our green agenda .. Lotus brand values of light, cost and high performance are relevant as they ever were. We are interested in Lotus offer as a company and its products, ethical, green option that appeals to our customers. "
In accordance with the "performance through light weight" philosophy, Eco Elise weighs 32 kg (70.5 lbs) less than the standard Elise S, which means that the efficient Elise S engine type is in the Eco Elise, the higher consumption levels and even better performance.
The dramatic improvement culture and operations at Lotus, the company consumes a staggering decline in consumption (14% of the electricity, gas, 30%) and water (11%) of Hethel headquarters in 2007 was an excellent, compared with 2006. This progress has occurred with the improvement of recycling, with 57% of waste product now being processed.
The new green materials sources for this car were carefully examined to ensure that each technology used reduces the environmental impact of vehicles. The lifetime of the components during the production, use and were analyzed at the end of life vehicle. The technology used aims to offer lower CO2 emissions as a solvent and in the life cycle of the vehicle, are consumed with a decrease in the production of energy.
Eco Elise will be displayed in the Greener Driving Pavilion at the British International Motor Show from 23 July - 3 Of August. The project is an affordable green technology that is designed to produce a viable and possible in the near term future.
Lotus Eco Elise details
The project aims to develop:
Sustainable environmentally friendly materials manufacturing processes Renewable Energy Reduce carbon miles Efficient driving style, weight loss
Renewable resources are included in the project, provides with hemp, eco wool and sisal natural, biodegradable materials. Cleaner production methods have been sought for, with the latest technology in water based paints. With this paint system saves energy and reduces emissions of solvents from the paint shop. Solar panels were installed in the hemp hard top to the performance of electrical systems and provide a way to renewable energies.
With the use of locally farmed hemp, the carbon miles to produce reduced Eco Elise, in line with a holistic approach to this car. Eco Elise puts great emphasis on effective methods of driving with the "economy" gear change display to improve fuel efficiency and promote greener driving. The car has a weight loss program, add a little more easily subjected to support the economic, environmentally friendly cars.
Sustainable materials Sustainable hemp technical fabrics have used as a main component of high quality "A" class composite body panels and spoiler. Renewable hemp has exceptional material properties that make for a very strong fiber. Historically, hemp was used in the manufacture of ropes, which the great strength of the material.
Hemp fiber is also in the manufacture of lightweight Lotus designed seats used. Another benefit of using hemp is that it is a natural resource that requires relatively little energy to manufacture and absorbs CO2 whilst growing the plant through natural photosynthesis. This hemp material is used with polyester resin to form a hybrid composite, but it is hoped that the full use of composite resin is in the short term viable.
Eco Elise seats are upholstered in durable yet biodegradable wool fabric, the approval granted EU Flower illustrate their environmental friendliness was. This new material is ethically produced and does not use any dyes or harmful processing. In fact, the color with the choice of breeds of sheep the wool for the yarn that creates increases the natural look of wool and reduced to generate the processing of tissue.
Sisal is a renewable crop, like hemp, is used for its strong material properties. Sisal has been used for carpet Eco Elise, as it is tough, durable material. The use of these materials shows potential for use of the new Lotus, new materials and flexible manufacturing facilities.
Cleaner production processes
While improving the environmental friendliness of objects Lotus Lotus Paint Production Fund, has developed in collaboration with Du Pont a completely water-based paint. This solution includes a primer coat, color coat and paint, and this is the first time that it is possible Handshower a water based "A" class production paint was.
If this progressive water based technology, Lotus is to achieve its impressive savings in energy consumption due to low cure temperature this paint requires. Another advantage of this color is to reduce the emissions of solvents, all of which contribute a significant cost savings for Lotus. This is the result of a unique collaboration with Du Pont in the promotion of low-ink technology. This technology is expected to be available in production cars in the near future.
Renewable Energy
Hemp hard top on Eco Elise has two flexible solar cells integrated into the roof clean and helps power the electrical systems and saving energy that would be drained from the engine.
Solar panels have been combined to form a hard top to illustrate the possibility of using this technology. This application shows the installation of solar panels into a composite "A" class panel with a double curvature. With this technology to a larger number of plates is more power, especially for larger vehicles.
Reduction of CO miles
Hemp fibers have been grown in East Anglia, whereby the carbon miles incurred in the production of this Elise. Lotus in the manufacturing part of the production and paint shop at its headquarters in Hethel, Norfolk, on the other side near industrial sites in Norwich. The company is working to carefully manage logistics operations between sites to improve efficiency, reduce costs and carbon miles. This is a Kanban system operated by a bar code, which was adopted by major vendors. This process also uses packaging that is recycled several times to eliminate waste.
Effective methods of travel
Lotus cars have red shift lights to help drivers, the maximum engine performance. But Eco Elise, Lotus designed software has been developed to assist the driver in maximizing fuel efficiency of the engine. Green gear change display is integrated into the dashboard of the gears at the optimum time to change to reduce emissions and fuel consumption.
Weight Loss
"The efficacy of light" is so synonymous with Lotus. Reduction in mass improves the handling and braking power is reduced, and the cost of the car to accelerate. The philosophy of weight loss even extends to the audio system with an exceptionally lightweight stereo speaker system from Alpine 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) saves. The system uses MP3 / iPod technology in a stylish, modern design.
Eco Elise uses special lightweight wheels reduce unsprung weight and contributing to weight reduction of approximately 15.8 kg (34.8 lbs) compared to the already super light Elise metal. Weight reduction program Eco Elise has a total savings over 32 kg (70.5 lb) per pen light Elise S, the fuel needed to drive the car is reduced.
