2008 Partners
The Energy Saving Trust is providing Energy Doctors from the London Energy Saving Trust advice centre who will be on hand at Clapham Common to give advice on smarter driving. Their eco-driving simulator will form a key part of the test and they will help to decide the winners.
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/smarterdriving
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) represents over 80,000 professional engineers. They are a key funding partner with Revolve and are keen to promote public awareness of environment-friendly transport technologies and fuels. Most of our volunteer marshalls are members of the IMechE.
www.imeche.org/about/keythemes/transport
The Revolve Eco-Rally is a showcase for Love London's Better Journeys theme. LoveLondon will be taking part in their hybrid Zipcar they share when necessary and will be giving away green goodie bags at the finish line.
lovelondon.london21.org
isanyonegoingto.com (Is Anyone Going To) is the fastest growing car-share site in the UK with 20,000 active members. The aim is to encourage vehicle users to adopt smarter and safer driving behaviour, therefore reducing emissions and saving lives. Despite launching just over a year ago, they're already being used by large organisations keen to reduce their environmental impact and are helping individuals to get to big events like Glastonbury.
IsAnyoneGoingTo members can organise lifts with the eco-rally drivers and catch a ride to any suitable point en route. Offering a lift will increase your chances of winning a prize. Just register and state where and when you're able to offer a lift. Please note that our event should be referred to as the "Brighton to London People's Eco-Rally 2008". People have met, dated, done business, and some members are now permanently sharing their commute to work.
www.isanyonegoingto.com
The EarthMan is a performance piece which allows the viewer to consider our global biosphere on a human scale. The Texan-based artist, Dion Laurent, blends art & science by appearing in public places wearing a fully-functioning, self-sustaining suit capable of maintaining a human in otherwise unlivable environments on earth or even in outer space. The EarthMan suit consists of a solar-powered system including fans, air ducts, lights, terrarium and plants that reproduces the symbiotic relationship between humans and plants through the exchange of CO2 and oxygen.
www.dionlaurent.com/earthman.htm
Thanks to The Fuel Cell Application Facility, a fuel-cell powered variable display sign will guide passing motorists and Eco-Rally competitors to the emissions testing area at the finish line.
fcaf.uk-cpi.com/
All the auxiliary equipment (including VOSA's emissions-testing unit) for the eco-rally will be zero emissions at the point of use – using the same fuel cell technology many believe will one day power zero emission cars. This has kindly been provided through a partnership between Camden and Croydon Councils.
65% of British drivers ‘don’t have a clue’ how much CO2 is being produced by their car. Only 5% of British drivers are able to say precisely how much CO2 is produced by their car, and only 11% know which emissions-based VED band applies to their vehicle. The environmentally least-well-informed drivers are in the South (particularly in London) 33% of London drivers do not feel that their car produces an unreasonable amount of pollution.
VOSA will be also displaying their Honda Civic Hybrid which they use as a pool car to get around London congestion-charge free.
Brighton & Hove Council will once again be providing free space on Madeira Drive and a PA system for the send-off. Brighton & Hove is ranked by Forum For the Future as the most sustainable and future-proof large city in Britain.
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
Energy Efficiency News is the daily news website bringing together the latest developments and trends in all aspects of energy efficiency and is a media partner for the People's Eco-Rally.
www.energyefficiencynews.com
Prizes
Navman will provide their top of the range widescreen S90i devices for each eco-rally drivers and there a lots of opportunities to win these Navpix-enabled devices as prizes.
www.navman.com | Press Release
