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Worlds First Green Race Car Posted by Giulia Rozzi on May 22, 2009 at 4:03 pm

The WorldFirst project has created the Vegetable Car, the worlds first Formula 3 green race car with a steering wheel made of carrot-based polymer, wing mirrors made of potatoes, and a biodiesel engine which runs on “waste chocolate.” Sounds amazing right? And delicious. Look at it go:

The car was used by the WorldFirst Racing Team, a project of the University of Warwick’s UK-based Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (WIMRC), with hopes that they can prove to the automotive industry that designing and building an environmentally sustainable competition level race car is possible.


CATEGORIES:  Culture, Environment


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