Car-puccino Cranks Up With Coffee, Chugs 56 Espressos-Per-Mile
March 10, 2010 · Print This Article
We’ve told you about power plants that pull electricity from garbage. We’ve reported on a Formula 3 vehicle that draws its power from chocolate. We even knew a guy that knew a guy, back in high school, who rigged his father’s riding lawnmower to run on his grandfather’s white lightning. Well, thanks to a few brainy Brits, we can now add coffee to the ever-growing list of funny fuels.
According to the Daily Mail, the Car-puccino, thanks to a gasification process that breaks the beans into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, runs, like the editors of Switched, entirely on ground coffee (and, thanks to its goofy name, proves we’ll never get British humor). The responsible engineers, who come from the BBC show ‘Bang Goes the Theory,’ claim that the 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco will get around three miles to the kilo (2.2 pounds). Apparently, that’s in the neighborhood of 56 espressos per mile.
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