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Chocolate-powered Formula 3 race car hits the track

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 12:11pm

Willy Wonka, eat your heart out. The University of Warwick is testing a Formula 3 race car that is powered by chocolate. Cocoa-scented exhaust fumes - yum! The WorldFirst race car is built mainly from potatoes and the race-legal steering...

Greased Lightning: 100MPG biodiesel hybrid blasts from 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds

Friday, April 3, 2009 - 10:20am

Tiny car company Lightning Hybrids showed it means business at the Denver Auto Show this week, rolling out the first prototype of the LH4, a 100MPG speedster with a hydraulic-biodiesel hybrid drivetrain that can zip the tight four-seater from 0...

Bentley revs up its fastest and greenest super car

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 8:35am

This Continental Supersports car roars to 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds and reaches a hair-raising top speed of 204 mph, but we've come to expect that from Bentley. We nearly choked when we heard that it runs on biofuel,...

Waste coffee grounds: best biofuel ever?

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 9:07am

Researchers at the University of Nevada-Reno have pioneered a process to separate the oil out of used coffee grounds and convert it into biofuel, creating cheap biodiesel from what was once trash. The resulting java-fuel has two big advantages...

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Chocolate-powered Formula 3 race car hits the track

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