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Likely the last thing many would expect a dedicated conservationist to drive would be a 6½ litre, 700 horsepower Lamborghini Aventador roadster with its 0–100 km/h acceleration time of three seconds flat and top speed of three–hundred and fifty km/h., outrageous, eye–catching styling and not even a roof to shield the driver from the scorn and envy of all those offended by such excess. And yet that is precisely what Wardenclyffe very enthusiastically whips about town and while the lusty Italian V–12 bellow of its exhaust note pounds at the delicate sensibilities of those who drive more civilized, albeit less awesome vehicles.
  As Jeremy Clarkson once observed, you might as well be fuelling the thing with baby seals and diced lions.
 
The secret to his apparent hypocrisy, of course, is precisely the sort of solution one might expect of such unconventional genius. He's had the Aventador, chosen precisely for the excess it represents, and, admittedly, because it's utterly mad fun, modified to be more fuel–efficient than any Prius, and cleaner to run as well. He first did this to demonstrate to prospective investors that, while prohibitively expensive and beyond the capability of current mass production techniques, solving those issues could make his patented synthetic petroleum a clean, inexhaustible alternative energy source on a global scale. Needless to say he's found no shortage of venture capital, and as an unexpected perk a number of highest–end automakers have expressed an interest in meeting him as well!
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