Eco-friendly car goes to the extreme

Posted by on Thu 25 Nov 2004

Panasonic has created a car that runs off... wait for it... two AA batteries!

We love Mother Nature as much as the next fella, but surely Panasonic's new electric concept car that runs off two AA batteries is tree-hugging to the extreme. Next they'll be coming up with a car that converts the heat from your buttocks into raw horsepower (hold on a sec, we're calling the Patent Office). This isn't a joke - the two AA battery thing, that is. Panasonic's OxyRide car weighs under 20kg and can carry a passenger about a mile before running out of juice. Well, at least it'd get you to the shops and back!

It's highly unlikely that we'll all be zipping around in AA-battery-powered cars though, because this was really just an elaborate stunt by Panasonic to showcase its new range of Digital Xtreme Power AA batteries. Nonetheless, stunt or no stunt, it's pretty impressive.