Vince, who built a £85m fortune on wind power, named his racing car Nemesis, to presage the demise of the combustion engine. “It’s about turning the heads of ordinary motorists because we all love these fast cars even though we can’t afford them,” he said for The Times.
The Nemesis, built for £400,000 by a team of Formula One engineers, will be priced to compete with a Ferrari, the aforementioned source said. The eco supercar runs for 150 miles between charges and can be powered in one hour from a special charger or eight hours from the mains supply. Dubbed the ‘first wind-powered car’, Nemesis has been run on purely wind-generated electricity.
The supercar has been displayed for the first time in public in September 2009, at the Science Museum as part of the Festival of Innovation.
“It's a custom-built electric car that will look good and I will power it by electricity from a wind turbine. I want to demonstrate what can be achieved. In the United Kingdom we drive 250bn miles a year in 30m cars so we must find a new way of personal transport that doesn't rely upon oil,” Vince said in an interview for The Telegraph.
“This car is costing a lot to develop, but it will have a range of 150 miles, will reach speeds of more than 100mph and will do 0 to 60 in four seconds. Modern batteries can be charged up from the mains within an hour, so I think it's a feasible alternative,” he added.
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