Revolve Photo Competition :: Win a fuel cell-powered H-Racer

The Revolve Eco-Rally gets big business, small innovative firms and government together to share their vision of low emission mobility.
Share your own vision of sustainable transport with us and win one of 10 fuel cell-powered model racing-cars. A limited supply of these H-Racers are also available at a special offer price of £79 from our associates Keen2learn.

Share / Discuss / Discover
Share your ideas about better journeys with the global Flickr community. Plus, the 16 most recent photos will be posted on our gallery page.

Competition Summary
1. Take photos of your vision of sustainable transport.
2. Upload your photos to our Flickr pool
3. Tag the photo “revolve050607”
4. Show us where you took the photo by adding it to the world map.

Terms and Conditions apply

The Prize
The H Racer is the working miniature version of what is being developed in real-size cars of the future. You also get an on board hydrogen storage tank, a fuel cell system connected to the car's electric motor, and a hydrogen refuelling system.

Special Offer
Keen 2 Learn in conjunction with Edu-Lab have kindly supplied 10 of the world's best selling fuel cell products as prizes. They are also offering a limited supply of the H-Racers at a big discount for the duration of the Revolve Photo Competition.

ISIS sponsors Revolve '07

Revolve is excited to welcome the world leading ISIS Neutron Source as a sponsor of the Revolve '07 series of events. ISIS recognises that providing clean energy sources is a key scientific and technological challenge. As part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, ISIS is working with universities and industry partners to research new materials for lightweight hydrogen storage and fuel cell development. These are vital components in the journey towards faster, cheaper and more efficient hydrogen transport vehicles and ISIS is applying it's unique research facilities to this global challenge.

Four Wheels Good, Three Wheels Better?

Apparently, we tend to under-estimate our car journeys. Experts suggest adding 20 -25% onto the time we think it'll take. This makes sense because a recent study carried out on behalf of the BBC revealed that Brits are actually spending on average 20 minutes longer in getting to work than they did 10 years ago.

Conceived as a more rational commuter vehicle, could Vandenbrink's Carver One finally exorcise the demons of three-wheeled mobility and seduce us away from the idea that bigger is better . At present the Carver One, is petrol-powered with a claimed fuel-consumption figure of 45mpg. Vandenbrink state that they are willing to consider a fuel cell option as soon as they feel the technology is ready.

If you're not ready to swap your people-carrier just yet, consider joining a car-sharing scheme.

How clean is your neighbourhood?
What effect is all this congestion having on air quality? The London Air Quality Network provides a dynamic map showing the latest pollution levels as recorded at pollution monitoring sites across Greater London. Enter your postcode to check your own neighbourhood.

North Americans will travel less highway miles in 2010 than in 2005... Agree / Disagree?

Two men have bet a total of $400 on this prediction.

In 2005, Mr Simon predicted that the peak oil phenomomenon will result in a drastic reduction in the wasteful and inefficient use of personal motor vehicles in the US out of economic necessity.
"I am predicting that vehicle use will decline rather than grow in the next 5 years to bring attention to the imminence of the crisis."
If he wins, he'll donate the proceeds to The Post Carbon Institute.

On the other hand, Mr Raphael pointed to the short-term option of producing liquid fuels from shale and coal.
"In the long run we've got the option of making more efficient cars and/or substituting batteries and fuel cells that are recharged with power provided by gas, coal, solar, hydro, and nuclear power plants. Five years is too short to expect much change in this area - we may not even have peaked by then. But once we do peak, it won't be much of a problem."
If he wins, he'll donate the proceeds to The Property and Environment Research Center.

Vote/discuss or make your own prediction here.

We like CUTE buses!

Following on from the success of the major EU-assisted project: CUTE (Clean Urban Transport for Europe), six cities and regions in Europe and Canada are joining forces to buy more hydrogen-powered buses. Thus accelerating economies of scale. Since mid-2003, 27 public transport buses have covered more than 1 million km and carried more than 4 million people in 9 European cities as part of the CUTE project.

The cooperating cities and regions in the new alliance are: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, British Columbia Province, Hamburg and London. The Mayor of London plans to introduce 70 new hydrogen vehicles to London by 2010.

Tyndall report outlines UK route to reduced carbon emissions

A new report by Friends of the Earth and The Co-operative Bank (based on research carried out by The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) is the UK’s first comprehensive route-map to a low carbon economy.
The study shows the total amount of carbon dioxide the UK can emit between now and 2050.

The report describes how:

• Sufficient emissions reductions can be made by using technologies which are – or are close to - market ready.
• The UK needs to achieve significant emission cuts – of around 70 per cent - within the next 30 years and it is possible to do so.

By 2050 the research envisages a world where:

• People fill up their cars at multi fuel stations which provide a choice of electricity, biofuels or hydrogen
• Hydrogen fuel cells are routinely used to provide heat and power in homes

You can download a PDF summary here (1.4Mb) or the full report here (2.8Mb)

GM Plans to Sell Fuel-Cell Vehicles by 2010

The Daily Auto Insider Monday, September 18, 2006
General Motors intends to spend heavily over the next few years to develop hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles for sale by 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing GM executives.

GM plans to begin selling a thousand or more fuel-cell vehicles by 2010 and perhaps hundreds of thousands a year by 2015, the story said. Fuel-cell vehicles use a chemical reaction to convert hydrogen gas into electricity that powers an electric motor.

GM Vice Chairman Robert Lutz told the WSJ that GM almost certainly won't make money on its early fuel-cell vehicles but he said being in front on the new technology would help turn around consumers' view of the company.
Leading on fuel cells “can be a game-changer for GM," Lutz said.