Grow your own race car

This race race sounds tasty... Well, some of it.
If you thought motor-racing was all about petrol-heads and champagne, WMG students at the University of Warwick will make you think again.Eco One is an environmentally-friendly race car with a difference: its shell is made from hemp, the tyres made from potatoes and the brake pads made from cashew nut shells. It also runs entirely on bio-fuels and bio-lubricants.
But its green credentials don't hold it back on the track. Designed originally with a top speed of 125mph, project manager Ben Wood has 'tweaked' the original Formula Student engine and claims he can achieve up to 150mph - given a long straight and a tailwind.
WMG Sends Race Car You Can Grow To Eden Project - [via] Link.
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Mar 28, 2007 12:52 AM
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| Posted by: johnreptues on March 28, 2007 at 1:41 AM |
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| Posted by: hammerthumb on March 28, 2007 at 5:35 AM |
I wonder how applicable to the family car this is. In America, the engineering problem for a family car is very different than that for a race car since there are so many government regulations to be met.
First and foremost you can forget hemp as a building material since it's illegal to grow. Who knows what the "powers that be" would say about importing the necessary quantities from Canada to do volume production runs.
I suppose that at the very least projects like this keep intelligent students preoccupied with something other than plotting a government coup.
| Posted by: dhaartman on March 28, 2007 at 10:03 AM |
Looks like it could use a rice-enabled front end alignment.
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