Pembrokeshire zoo, Folly Farm, has upgraded its widespread out of doors go karts to sustainable, electrical fashions as a part of its ongoing dedication to sustainability.
Folly Farm invested £160,000 – which was funded via the Welsh authorities’s Financial Resilience Fund Section 3 – on 18 new, electric-powered karts for its family-friendly Follystone racetrack.
The electrical go karts have been designed and constructed by Rhyl-based household enterprise, Method Okay.
Method Okay is a number one go kart producer, supplying leisure sights everywhere in the world.
Folly Farm is the primary household attraction in Wales to introduce all-electric go karts.
The order, which was positioned in the course of the peak of the pandemic, helped Method Okay to convey again workers who had been furloughed because the shutdown of the tourism and leisure market.
Royston Badham, operations supervisor at Folly Farm, stated: “Our go karts right here at Folly Farm have at all times been our hottest attraction, other than the animals after all.
“Changing our petrol go karts with electrical ones was a simple choice.
“The vehicles run on batteries that are charged utilizing solar energy.
“Photo voltaic panels on our fairground rooves already energy lots of the sights on web site as a part of our ongoing dedication to sustainability.
“The brand new greener go karts will scale back our carbon emissions as we’re not utilizing petrol and what’s extra, they’re a lot quieter than the outdated fashions which is an added bonus.”
He added: “We have been happy to work hand in hand with one other Welsh enterprise, Method Okay, who’ve made the improve a easy and straightforward course of for us, delivering our order throughout difficult occasions.
“We’re excited to supply our guests the possibility to race within the new vehicles this summer time.”
