This Is The Race Car Everyone Wants To Beet
This is the ultimate green machine, surely. A UK university student has virtually grown a 240km/h car from seed. One-seater racing car Eco One has tyres made of potatoes, brake pads from ground cashew shells and a body created from hemp and rapeseed oil. It runs on fuel made from fermented wheat and sugar beet. Powered by the engine from a Triumph Daytona motorcycle, Eco One does 0-100km/h in under four seconds. It will be on display at the National Science Museum in London from August 28 to 30.
FOOTNOTE: British racing green, innit?
6 comments:
Wonder what he uses to keep the bugs and birds from tearin' it to pieces?
Now you've got me with that one, Bruno! Maybe there's no, ahem, bugs in the system!
Keep smiling
David
That's scary, when even the wheels have eyes eventually but I'd love to be standing at the corner when he brakes hard .... toasted cashews, how enticing! Does he run castor bean oil in the cases, I wonder. That's a classic old Manx smell in its own right.
Hi Lin,
I'll let you know when he brings it to NM. And I want to be there when they replace the brakes!
Keep smiling
David
"Honey, where's the car?"
"The dog ate it.."
If it breaks down, perhaps you can bury it in the garden and the next spring its next generation will sprout.
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