{"id":11379,"date":"2009-05-05T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2009-05-05T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T22:39:06","slug":"automobile-sports-car-autopia-planes-trains-automobiles-and-the-future-of-transportation-le-mans-is-the-lab-creating-greener-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11379","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car &#8211; Autopia Planes, Trains, Automobiles and the Future of Transportation Le Mans Is The Lab Creating Greener Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11380\" title=\"epsilon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/epsilon.bmp\" alt=\"epsilon\" \/>Epsilon Euskadi, a race car company based in the Basque region of Spain, is working with a bunch of masters students at Cranfield University in England to develop a kinetic energy recovery system for a Le Mans racer that could hit the grid next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OK, so yet another outfit is developing some green tech for the track. Interesting. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also part of a broader trend that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seen automakers and engineers bringing eco-friendlier auto tech &#8211; KERS, alternative fuels, hybrid drivetrains and even high-performance electric cars &#8211; to a specific arena:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Le Mans-style endurance racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You could argue Audi started it off when it rolled into Le Mans with the R10 diesel a few years back &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2009\/05\/le-mans-is-the-lab-creating-greener-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details <\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epsilon Euskadi, a race car company based in the Basque region of Spain, is working with a bunch of masters students at Cranfield University in England to develop a kinetic energy recovery system for a Le Mans racer that could hit the grid next year. OK, so yet another outfit is developing some green tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11411,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions\/11411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}