Called the Car-Puccini, and the first car in the world fueled by coffee.
Car-Puccini editorial invention BBC popular science program "Bang Goes The Theory". Imaginative team bought an old Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988. at a price slightly higher than 400 euros, and then transformed into a car instead of gasoline or diesel fuel used machine.
To drive the Car-puccini used roasted coffee beans that are poured into the cylinder and then heated to 700 degrees Celsius.
- Coffee is used as fuel must be very dry and the grain in order to allow air to flow through the pile until it burns. Brand of coffee is not important - told the Daily Mail Nick Watson, the producer of "Bang Goes The Theory".
A car consumes about a kilo of coffee at five kilometers. To cross the 338 kilometers between London and Manchester, it took about 70 pounds of coffee beans, which is equivalent to 11 760 cups of espresso coffee. If you think about the price of pound of coffee on the British market ranges between 15 and 30 euros (depending on quality), for the entire trip is spent between 1030 and 2070 euros. Comparison of is driving a car on gasoline between Manchester and London is 40-odd euros. This means that the ride Car-Puccino 25-50 times more expensive than a conventional car.
The car can develop speed up to 100 kilometers per hour and every 50 to 70 kilometers needed his "coffee break" to be poured new fuel inventories bizarre. Every 90 to 100 kilometers Car-Puccino must stop in order to clear the "filter coffee". Should not be neglected Kavin carbon footprint so the cup of black coffee is responsible for the emission of 125 grams of carbon dioxide.
