The Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Center of the University or Warwick has created the first "veggie" racecar, a Formula 3 single seater that utilises several recyclable and bio components.
With several parts made from reused materials, the car, with its 2.0-litre turbo diesel engine, designers says the car should have an ever better performance ratio than the one of regular Formula 3 series when fully developed.
James Meredith, Dr Steve Maggs and Dr Kerry Kirwan are the three researchers that made this idea come to life with the help of Lola, BASF, Lear, Fuchs and Avon Tyres that assisted them.
For example, the F3 car comes with a special radiator coated with an innovative catalyst that significantly reduces emissions so that it can pass future stringent carbon dioxide emissions requirements, demonstrating once and for all that the green philosophy is achievable to such a level.
The car is shod on Avon tyres made with reduced polycyclic aromatics. The reduction in harmful chemicals in tyres will reduce pollution at the manufacture, usage and recycling phases of a tyres life cycle.
The car has had its first track test this week in Great Britain. The project is the first of its genre... and can roll with chocolate waste!
The car features:
- Composite steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables
- Potato starch wing mirrors
- Wing end plates made from cellulose and flax composite
- Lightweight wiring loom incorporating recycled aluminium and plastic
- 3D woven natural fibre composites in the barge board
- Bio diesel race calibrated engine. Not only is the car made of plants it can also run on them!
- Glass fibre and resin from recycled plastic for the side pod
- A groundbreaking oxygen generating catalyst on the radiators that cleans the air as the car moves
- A seat made from flax fibre shell, soybean oil foam and recycled polyester
- Recycled carbon fibre for the engine cover and damper hatch
- Pre-impregnated woven flax fibre for the bib
- Plant oil based lubricants
- Non-carbon disks, with low embodied energy for the brakes
- Recyclable livery and sustainable branding
photo:World First Racing
With several parts made from reused materials, the car, with its 2.0-litre turbo diesel engine, designers says the car should have an ever better performance ratio than the one of regular Formula 3 series when fully developed.
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James Meredith, Dr Steve Maggs and Dr Kerry Kirwan are the three researchers that made this idea come to life with the help of Lola, BASF, Lear, Fuchs and Avon Tyres that assisted them.
For example, the F3 car comes with a special radiator coated with an innovative catalyst that significantly reduces emissions so that it can pass future stringent carbon dioxide emissions requirements, demonstrating once and for all that the green philosophy is achievable to such a level.
The car is shod on Avon tyres made with reduced polycyclic aromatics. The reduction in harmful chemicals in tyres will reduce pollution at the manufacture, usage and recycling phases of a tyres life cycle.
The car has had its first track test this week in Great Britain. The project is the first of its genre... and can roll with chocolate waste!
The car features:
- Composite steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables
- Potato starch wing mirrors
- Wing end plates made from cellulose and flax composite
- Lightweight wiring loom incorporating recycled aluminium and plastic
- 3D woven natural fibre composites in the barge board
- Bio diesel race calibrated engine. Not only is the car made of plants it can also run on them!
- Glass fibre and resin from recycled plastic for the side pod
- A groundbreaking oxygen generating catalyst on the radiators that cleans the air as the car moves
- A seat made from flax fibre shell, soybean oil foam and recycled polyester
- Recycled carbon fibre for the engine cover and damper hatch
- Pre-impregnated woven flax fibre for the bib
- Plant oil based lubricants
- Non-carbon disks, with low embodied energy for the brakes
- Recyclable livery and sustainable branding
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photo:World First Racing