Colour-coded EV Go Faster Stripes

This could also apply to hydrogen power if that was a serious proposition.

Vehicles, and in at least one case a computer, can have stripes on them to make them seem sleeker and faster. They can also be stuck or painted on.

Electric vehicles may have received their charge from various sources, including renewable and non-renewable sources. This probably breaks down as geothermal, oil, gas, nuclear, solar, hydroelectric and wind, maybe also biomasse. Most of the time, the precise source is likely to be unknown unless its locally generated, but if it is, it can at least be broken down to grid and guaranteed renewable. An application running inside the vehicle controls the colours of the stripes according to the source: blue for hydroelectric, green for wind, yellow for solar, purple for nuclear, orange for geothermal, red for fossil fuel. This basically amounts to bragging rights/virtue signalling.

Right now, we don't really know where our energy comes from via the grid and it would presumably be a mixture, but it would be possible to record this and communicate it to the software linked to the equipment controlling the electricity coming into the home and there are tariffs which allegèdly guarantee renewable sources. It could also very easily be adapted to hybrid vehicles, and in fact to domestic supplies.