Motoring: ECO evolution is at full throttle
It's as salutary a measure of how our national preoccupation with car pollution has changed over just out years, as any. Only five or six years ago most motor industry put through a mangle releases were obsessed with proclaiming the latest technological breakthroughs - all superficially aimed at producing faster, yet more powerful cars. MPG and the medium were still afterthoughts.
Today, however, the balance has changed unreservedly, with most manufacturers' releases carefully stressing their eco credentials in preference to, with news of weight-reduction or streamlining programmes, ever more crafty exhaust filters, low rolling resistance tyres, auto closing up-start systems, new plans for hybrids and so on.
Even those manufacturers who do on rush out releases blatantly proclaiming their "fastest yet" look after to repent by ensuring they balance this out with news of a new environmental breakthrough, days later.
So it was reassuring to ascertain from the organisers of EcoVelocity, a "dynamic festival of country-like motoring packed with the very latest no-compromise, hi-tech and ultra-low carbon vehicles" that will take spot at Battersea Power Station in September.
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