Ecotricity Greenbird aims for ice speed record attempt

Ecotricity Greenbird heads to the US with hopes of cracking the ice speed record © Ecotricity Greenbird

Ecotricity Greenbird heads to the US with hopes of cracking the ice speed record © Ecotricity Greenbird

UK record breaker heads to US with hopes of cracking ice speed record

Less than a year after breaking the world land speed record, the Ecotricity Greenbird team are back for more - this time with their sights set on the frozen lakes of Montana, USA.

Not content with their current accolade of driving the world’s fastest wind-powered land vehicle into the Guinness Book of Records, the British team led by engineer, pilot and inventor Richard Jenkins, are determined to crack another one this winter: the world record for the fastest wind powered craft on ice.

The fastest accurately (GPS) recorded speed for a wind-powered ice craft stands at 84 mph which was broken on Lake Wallenbach in Austria in a skeeter (a type of ice boat). Greenbird’s designers are hoping that their unique craft, which has taken them more than six years to perfect, can not only break this record but take them one step closer to establishing whether ice could be as fast to travel on in a wind powered vehicle as land. The current land speed record for wind powered vehicles is 126.1mph, which they set in Australia in March this year.

The world record attempt is a partnership between Ecotricity, the UK’s largest green electricity company and project founder Jenkins. The team behind the Greenbird is British, independent, visionary and passionate about the power of wind as a renewable source of energy and its role in a zero carbon transport future.