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Coffee Powered Car Breaks Speed Record, Is Awesome

4,978 views · Published 12 March 2013 · 2:15 · Indexed 2 October 2026

Channel: NerdAlert · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Inventor and eco-engineer Martin Bacon and his team of caffeinated engineers have built a car powered only by coffee grounds, and now it holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest car of its kind.

It runs by using gasification-  a process that converts organic carbon materials into carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Their organic material of choice? Coffee grounds. The creators say their vehicle can drive 55 miles on the power of a 22 pound bag of coffee grounds. It's not incredibly easy to make the pellets, and the car does emit a lot of smoke, but could it be a prototype for a car that could run on this sort of alternative fuel? It's not quite Doc Brown's garbage-powered Delorean Time Machine, but it's still a pretty cool way to get around powered by what would essentially be compost. 

Please visit http://coffeecar.org/ for more videos and info on the Coffee Car Mk2!

-Kim


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