Students In The Netherlands Create Environmental Friendly Electric Cars From The Manufacturing Process To Their Usage

Environmentally friendly electric vehicles created by Dutch students. (photo: doc. UTV)

JAKARTA Student groups in the Netherlands made a unique innovation about environmentally friendly vehicles. They turn a BMW couple into an all-electric sporty car that captures more carbon than it emits.

"Our ultimate goal is to create a more sustainable future," Jens Lahaije, financial manager of TU/ecomotive, a team of students at Universitas Teknologi Eindhoven who created the car, told Reuters.

Called ZEM (Zero Emission Mobility), because it has zero emissions mobility. This car also has two seats to accommodate the lithium-ion Cleantron battery pack, and most of its parts are printed 3D from recycled plastic.

"The target is to minimize the carbon dioxide emitted by the car during the use of this car, from manufacturing to recycling," he added.

Electric vehicles with battery power barely emit CO2 during operations compared to combustion engine vehicles. But battery cell production can create so much pollution that electric cars can cover tens of thousands of miles to achieve "carbon parity" with comparable fossil fuel models.

This Eindhoven team estimates that ZEM uses two filters that can capture up to 2 kilograms (4.41 lb) of CO2 over 20,000 miles of driving. They envision the future when the filter can be vacated at the charging station.

Students showed their vehicles on a US promotional tour to universities and companies from the East Coast to Silicon Valley.