Dale reaches 120mph in wind-powered car

Dale Vince, director of Ecotricity, an Ashden Award winner in 2007, takes the Guardian's John Vidal on a test drive of his electric sports car, the Nemesis

"I like to think of it as a wind-powered car because it's important in the whole debate about the shift to electric cars that we don't forget that the electricity has to come from somewhere and in our case what we've built here is a wind-powered car."

Dale has done 120 mph in his electric supercar and hopes, in a few months, to beat the record of 138-9 mph.

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MD of Ecotricity appears on Rich List 2009

Dale Vince, Managing Director of Ecotricity is listed for the first time on the infamous Sunday Times Rich List 2009, in 657th position. As he hastens to add "I’ve not suddenly got an awful lot of money, this £85 Million is what the Sunday Times team reckons Ecotricity is worth".

Ecotricity were 2007 UK business winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy for their role in helping boost the wind energy sector in the UK, particularly for their emphasis on community consultation.

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