Monday, February 22, 2010 The Edible Race Car
 The news isn’t recent—in fact, we covered it in our French 2009 Environment Supplement—but it is still a good reminder that cars can be made of ecological parts. Indeed, last summer, the University of Warwick in the U.K. came up with a Formula 3 race car of which many parts came from food and renewable parts. Other than running on bio fuel made of chocolate residues and vegetable oils, its body is made of potato residue, its brakes of cashew nuts, the seat out of flax and soy fibres, while the chassis is made of recycled plastic and aluminium bottles and cans. The car, called the EcoF3, did not comply to racing rules so it could not compete. But one day… (ED)
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