The Chocolate Powered Veggie Racecar

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Matt Embrey in Cars+Tranportation

A racecar made from carrots and potatoes and running on Chocolate?!?!

In a sport that values speed and performance above all else, a group of speed loving treehuggers are trying to dispel the myth that performance must be sacrificed to incorperate sustainability. To do this World First Racing has developed a Fomula class race car that takes sustainability beyond the fuel tank with the World First Racer.

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Much of the car is made from sustainably sourced and environmentally friendly materials. These include:

Cashew nut shell break pads
A steering wheel made from Curran, a carrot based polymer
Potato starch and flax fiber compenents
Recycled glass bottle and carbon fiber panels
Soybean oil foam in the seat
Plant oil based lubrication
Wiring loom made from recycled halogen-free materials

Inside, the World First Racer sports a 220 hp turbo diesel BMW engine that runs on a mixture of vegtable oil and waste chocolate byproducts and a radiator coated in a catalyst that turns ozone into oxygen.

The team completed their first track test a little over 3 weeks ago at Bruntingthorpe and reported reaching a top speed of 118 mph. They also reported identifying a few small problems which they plan to fix, hopefully increasing the car’s power output allowing it to reach 140 mph at the top end.

There’s no word yet when the car will be ready to join the Formula race circuit but it is slated for some demo runs at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. during the weekend of July 3 and at the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain, in August.

Sources: World First Racing & Wired

Tags:

cars, racecar, sports car, sustainable

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7 Responses to “ The Chocolate Powered Veggie Racecar ”

Sylvan Artitcht

06. Jun, 2009

Ye beeze insultinz the US mannz! We be not proliferatin’z der vegg WITH the CHoclate, for With the CHOc there be no happynanns in zuht brainski. Now me thinks yeeze needz tuh be o reThinking the blame chain enVeggieFritz fer ger motil T fangdwig.

Leave be choclates uhone. Be not tuh tamperin wits o good thang that beez bad in the air for the filteredz not gets gerRid o duhrt choclatesKi. Playuz be senstive.

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strip forced

28. Jun, 2009

hmm.. really like it.

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Ben

14. Jul, 2009

hehe cute this thing and i like the photos.too bad are just local ideas. that die as soon as they appeared.

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Pace

15. Jul, 2009

Even if the car never races, it’s still very good publicity for sustainability. Thanks for sharing it! Helping raise awareness is always a good thing.

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