Aston University back green scheme for cars.

• Aug. 17 by Phil Gordon (0)

As mentioned recently on Birmingham Recycled in a post by Emma Williams, Birmingham is one of the leading UK cities aiming to clean up our Co2 emissions and make cars more eco friendly.

Students at Aston University have become involved with a project hoping to develop low carbon emitting transport for the UK.

This project is the biggest of it’s kind to date and will see a sample of over 100 vehicles being tested across our city using alternative energy sources such as battery and water powered motors along with hybrids.

These Aston students will be collecting and analysing data gained from the road testing of these vehicles in their effort to help assist these large scale project.

Brian Price, Engineering Systems & Management lecturer at Aston commented to the Birmingham Post on the University’s involvement with the green car scheme,

”There is a still a lot of work to be done with petrol and diesel engines but the time is right to go back and think about how cars could reduce their emissions and hydrogen and hybrid cars are a great way to do that. Aston University is playing a part in looking at how these vehicles will be used and the routes, timings and efficiency of them”.