Emission-free car
One of the world's greenest cars has rolled into Moscow on its round-the-world trip, making local drivers green with envy.
Moscow's roads are amongst the busiest in the world. Everyday hundreds of thousands of cars get stuck in traffic, all pumping fumes into the atmosphere.
Now, engineers say that they have come up with an emission-free vehicle with only one difference to a normal car – it runs on electricity.
To show off their new vehicle, three of the emission-free cars are taking part in a round-the-world rally. They are now on the final leg of their journey which will finish where it started over 100 days ago in Stuttgart.
Twenty years in development, the F-Cell cars take just three minutes to fuel and can cover 400 km on a full tank.
The main problem with making the car of the future into the car of today is the network of hydrogen fueling stations that will have to be built. The designers say they have done their bit in creating a green car and it is now up to governments to create a green infrastructure.
“If there is a real push – by the government, by the public, there will be high demand and production will increase rapidly. When big cities have the infrastructure, it will all be possible,” Jorg Prigl, vice president of Mercedes Benz development, told RT.
It means we are just some time away from seeing these electric cars replacing combustion engine vehicles stuck in traffic jams around Moscow. Currently, however, there is not one fueling station in the capital that can keep them powered up and on the road.
With every year seeing more and more cars on Moscow's already jammed road system, these zero-emission cars could be the way to make the roads of Europe's biggest city greener.
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