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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/electric-car-completes-epic-journey.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The SRZero became the first electric car to travel from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to the world's southernmost city of Ushuaia in Argentina (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-electric-car-completes-epic-journey.jpg" alt="The SRZero became the first electric car to travel from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay to the world's southernmost city of Ushuaia in Argentina (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>An electric sportscar developed by British engineers has finished a remarkable road trip on the Panamerican Highway, travelling from near the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the world&#8217;s southernmost city without a single blast of carbon dioxide emissions.</p>
<p>Developed by engineers from Imperial College London, the SRZero sportscar ran on lithium iron phosphate batteries powering two electric motors with a peak output of 400 horsepower during its 16,000-mile journey.</p>
<p>Powering up was a joy at times, the team said &#8211; such as in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, where they started their trip on July 3 after charging the batteries using geothermal energy.</p>
<p>&#8220;The SRZero was literally being charged from energy taken straight out of the earth with absolutely zero CO2 emissions,&#8221; Alex Schey, a mechanical engineer who organised the trip, wrote in his blog that day.</p>
<p>Finding places to plug in along the way became a major challenge as the team passed through 14 countries in 70 days of driving.</p>
<p>But every time the driver hit the brakes &#8211; and there was plenty of that as the team made its way through the Rocky Mountains, Mexico and Central America and then through South America &#8211; the car recovered kinetic energy, extending its capacity to drive as much as six hours and more than 250 miles on a single charge.</p>
<p>This was no clunky science project &#8211; all that horsepower enabled the car to reach 60mph in just seven seconds and reach top controlled speeds of 124mph, the team said.</p>
<p>It pulled into the city of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, on Tuesday afternoon.</p>
<p>&#8220;The success of efforts like this should motivate us to follow this road that we believe is as possible as it is necessary &#8211; that of searching for progress for our societies without putting at risk the environment,&#8221; the governor of Argentina&#8217;s Tierra del Fuego province, Fabiana Ros, said as she greeted the team.</p>
<p>Andy Hadland, the team&#8217;s spokesman, said he hoped the trip would change the image of electric cars and inspire young people to become engineers and develop their own projects.</p>
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