https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnWCHxu86MI
Car that runs on umber ? Check . umber - car that beats landspeed records ? Not so check , until now . With this update to theoriginal “ Carpuccino,”the Teesdale Conservation Volunteers have built a car that can hit 66.5 miles per hour running just on coffee bean , make it the debauched gasification - power railcar ever .
https://gizmodo.com/coffee-powered-carpuccino-infuriates-car-lovers-coff-5487377
While the first Coffee Car was built out of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco , the Mark II is an even rarer British Leyland Rover SD1 . Still retains that old - schooling DeLorean aesthetic , though . All the sword and valves the group fit out the car with workplace together to turn coffee tree attic inbiofuel . It ’s a process called gasification , and it involves compound the coffee grounds with oxygen , and heating them up to 1292 degrees Fahrenheit .
https://gizmodo.com/coffee-fueled-car-is-surprisingly-practical-5166165
So all the Coffee Car had to do was pulsate the original criminal record of 47 miles per hour , held by an American Grant Wood pellet - powered “ Beaver Car . ” So the Teesdale gang teamed up with the BBC again to crush their record . Guinness respond in kind , granting them the new top spot . Pretty impressive . Check out their speeding run at theBBC . [ BBCviaExtremeTech ]
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