This is the Eco One , a one - seater sports machine that is light-green in more direction that you would imagine . Not only does it run on wheat and saccharide beet at 150 miles per hour , going from 0 to 62 mph in less than four sec , but the broadside of material looks like a salad : Irish potato , cashew nut shells , rapine seed crude and hemp . Check the sodding recipe in the big side photo after the leap .
The $ 41,000 car sportswoman railway car , built by student Ben King from a design by Dr Kerry Kirwan , a researcher at the Warwick Manufacturing Group , use an locomotive from a Triumph Daytona motorbike . He built the Eco One in two months . “ If we can build a eminent - public presentation car that can virtually be grown from seminal fluid , just conceive of what is possible for the mean family motorcar , ” he said .
Eco One is 95 percent biodegradable or reusable , although its direction - wheel , seat and electrics comprise conventional materials . All of the charge plate element were made from plant , while the frame is made from sword , an easy reusable alloy .
The makers claim that there are people concerned in developing the technology for motor racing . “ We have been verbalize to various - people within the motor sports manufacture , ” claim a spokeswoman for the Warwick Manufacturing Group . “ The motor sports diligence knows it ’s get under one’s skin to be greener . And the concept is transferable into cars for the race racetrack or the thruway . ”
If you ’re in London over the summertime , the motorcar will be on show at the National Science Museum from August 28 - 30 . [ Daily Mail ]
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