The 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge is a 3000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia. Among the competitors in the Greenfleet Technology Class - a category for internal combustion vehicles promoting an enhanced environmental profile - is the BioBike, a biodiesel-powered motorcycle, constructed by a group of students in Adelaide, Australia.
Biobike happily does 96kmh and returns a staggering fuel economy of only 2.2 litres per 100 kilometres.
In the leisure motorcycling world, where power-to-weight ratios are everything and horsepower rules over torque, diesel simply doesn’t make sense on the sales floor.
But, as BioBike project leader Heidi McNamara points out, in areas where motorcycles are used as essential transport rather than high-speed toys, these machines start to look far more practical - particularly on farms and in military applications where diesel is used to run pretty much every other vehicle and engine.
from http://www.gizmag.com/go/8209/
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