Affinity was exhibited at CleanEquity Monaco last week, in front of the Monte Carlo Casino. Five members of the CUER team accompanied the car on its trip to Monaco, where it was displayed alongside other environmentally-friendly vehicles including a Tesla Roadster and Vectrix scooter, as well as the Place du Casino’s usual Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis.
The week passed by with minimal incident, although it seems that Lucy’s midnight sprint across London gave her the plague, and she was shut up in bed with warm drinks while the rest of the team were out partying with millionaires. This is no exaggeration. Except perhaps the plague part.
Affinity’s canopy finally copped it this week after a gentle freak gust of wind blew the upper shell clean off, into a couple of pedestrians, and pinned them against a fence (we maintain that they should be glad that they were incapacitated in such an eco-friendly way. Bet they’d have been a lot madder if someone’s Ferrari had been blown into them…) Her sorry internal structure of cardboard and gaffer tape was exposed to the world, but she was still interesting enough to draw a crowd.
Er...I don't suppose you could give me a hand getting out, could you, your Highness...?
HSH The Prince of Monaco closed the two-day conference, where he viewed Affinity and met members of the CUER team. Prince Albert II has long been a supporter of green technologies and it was an honour to meet him. Special thanks to Jade Summer and the Innovator Capital team for inviting us to the conference. (See also Cleantech Investor’s photo of the week.)
For more photos take a look at our CleanEquity Monaco gallery.
