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Added on the 04/10/2021 10:12:47 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Fuel tankers leave a depot in Grays, Essex, as the British army is set to begin delivering petrol to fuel stations after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced the government to offer visa waivers to foreign truckers to plug the shortfall. IMAGES
Images of a petrol station and a fuel tanker on fire in Freetown, Sierra Leone, following a massive explosion that has killed at least 92 people. According to witnesses, the accident happened when a vehicle caught fire at a petrol station after a road accident. The flames then spread, burning people in cars and on roads nearby. IMAGES
Dozens of motorists queue at a gas station in Maracay, Venezuela, to fill their vehicles with dollarized gasoline. IMAGES
Protesters angry over high fuel prices blocked access to a petrol station in Vern-sur-Seiche in eastern France, provoking a traffic jam of nearly 200 trucks. IMAGES
Electric cars and fuel efficient vehicles are all the rage as people become more environmentally conscious and try to reduce their carbon footprints. A group of students from the Delft Technical University in the Netherlands unveiled the EcoRunner 7, an electric vehicle with a fuel efficiency equivalent of 8,200 miles per gallon. The students plan to prove the fuel efficiency of the EcoRunner 7 by driving from the Dutch capital Amsterdam to Cairo, the capital of Egypt! The newest version of the EcoRunner comes with some significant upgrades. By making the body completely out of carbon fiber, the team have brought the weight of the EcoRunner 7 down to less than 22 pounds. The ultra efficient vehicle runs on a small electric motor located underneath the driver in the back. Team Delft is due to participate in the world championship of fuel economy, the Shell Eco-marathon in London, this coming May.
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