The Wind Explorer: in the future, we will be traveling this way
Kitesurfers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer had an incredible
idea. Let's build a 200-kilogram car that is, at the same time,
a kitesurfing craft and a wind turbine.  Meet the "Wind
Explorer", a powerful convertible that has crossed the
Australian continent in 18 days. That's a 3,000-mile trip that
only needed £10 of electricity to complete the challenge.
There's no gas or gasoline involved. The "windmobile" uses
light-weight Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries and gets the
best cross winds to travel 420 kilometres by steerable kites, in
total.  The "Wind Explorer" is so efficient that the little wind
turbine carried aboard can produce enough energy for a daily
distance of 250 to 400 kilometers.  The journey has begun in
Albany (south of Perth), Australia's southwest-most point. From
there the route followed the south coast through the Nullarbor
plain, Adelaide and Melbourne, all the way to Sydney on the
Pacific Ocean.  Every day, the environmenta