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So I decided to build one.
It was also to be a wind powered car, we would use the wind to make the electricity and thus have no emissions at all.
I assembled a team of Motorsport engineers – and set a challenging design brief, it had to have a speed of at least 100 mph, a 100 mile range and super car looks and handling.
It had to be so because electric cars back then were stereotypically things that Noddy would drive or like Milk Floats – if you remember them.
We wanted to smash that stereotype. And I think we did.
The Nemesis hit the road in 2010, to wide acclaim – it went as well as it looked.