AFP, LONDONFormula One (F1) appear to have taken on board six-time champion Lewis Hamilton’s concerns over the environment and have announced a plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. F1 cars are already engineered to be vastly more eco-friendly than street cars. Their engines have a thermal efficiency rating of 50 percent, whereas the gas-powered engines in street cars have a rating of about 30 percent. Beginning in 2021, rules would demand that the fuel used in F1 have a biofuel content of at least 10 percent. “I don’t allow anyone in my office, but also within my household, to buy any plastics,” he said.

Source: Taipei Times November 13, 2019 15:59 UTC