Hey Grandad, can you make a potato powered car? (no I can't)
3,207 views · Published 22 February 2014 · 9:43 · Indexed 24 October 2026
Channel: GrandadIsAnOldMan · 2014 · Science & Technology
One of my regular subscribers, urantiruslan, left a comment "can you make a crawler bot or car that runs on lemons or potato ? like to see you make that i saw at mike make a clock power with potato like to see a potato or lemon power a mobile vehicle". My honest answer was "I don't think I could get enough power to run a car or a crawlerbot from lemons or potatoes." but I thought I would give it a go. I didn't have any lemons so I just used potatoes and as I expected I could not get enough power to drive an electric motor, but I did convert one of those 'solar movers' to run from the potatoes and I also managed to light an LED. It seems to me that to get enough power to drive an electric motor from potato batteries you would need several pounds of them linked together and then the battery would be too heavy for the motor to move. If anybody has managed I would be interested to see it. Components - Potatoes Copper wire Zinc coated nails Here are two of my early videos making these sort of batteries with my granddaughter early last year. Lemon Battery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIJMGQHYgQ&list=PLA5a2xPRSrB2HXSqJPl6Kv9J_pHHp4cIF&feature=share&index=5 Vinegar Battery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cbIyHpRFys&list=PLA5a2xPRSrB2HXSqJPl6Kv9J_pHHp4cIF&feature=share&index=2 Here is another potato related video :-) https://youtu.be/7IWrLqdT6vQ Simple projects https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB2HXSqJPl6Kv9J_pHHp4cIF Simple electronic projects https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB0qd7Hrqoc3II0OU-bx64TA Electronic projects https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB00lxaX8BD46F1QDJTe7Em4 Lemon, Potato, Vinegar etc Power https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB24tJDQHdmjgpFGwfvwvnnn Solar snowman https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA5a2xPRSrB2IsZs-7feda7BZFdPpxHdN My Channels GrandadIsAnOldMan https://bit.ly/2T3x6RX GrandadsOtherChannel https://bit.ly/2yW5uYb Put a rubber band on it https://bit.ly/2T3OF4j Number4 https://bit.ly/3cG4fuZ You can help keep my channel running with coffee and cakes at Patreon https://bit.ly/35XFasL If you don't like Patreon you use Kofi instead https://bit.ly/3dNusI9 Merchandise on RedBubble https://rdbl.co/2yJv56H Merchandise on Cotton Cart https://bit.ly/2xZymOP Merchandise on Teespring https://bit.ly/2Zby02T Twitter https://bit.ly/3fMUgFN FaceBook https://bit.ly/3csbruk Pinterest https://bit.ly/2WTuuXP Instagram https://bit.ly/2WPLa2F Thingiverse https://bit.ly/35WfSem Tinkercad https://bit.ly/2WUrM4q Oldest videos https://bit.ly/2Z4RBl1 Most Popular https://bit.ly/3cx0lUP Newest videos https://bit.ly/2T3TryJ Playlists https://bit.ly/3dI9mdV I have thousands of videos on YouTube, to find one try my search guides https://youtu.be/ceBSOoOHcgw or https://youtu.be/Zj4UgwkwYRk I am happy for you to show my content as part of your own projects or in public settings as long as you clearly credit GrandadIsAnOldMan. Do not copy my video content and pass it off as your own. #GrandadIsAnOldMan #GrandadsOtherChannel #Putarubberbandonit #Number4
