Alternative fuel methods are springing up all over the world, showing that gasoline is not our last source of hope to power vehicles. Everything from electricity, to solar power, to hydrogen, and now: vegetable oil, has been shown to power cars just as effectively while also helping the world with pollution.

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Vegetables: often seen as health food items with countless positive benefits for the body, now can have a positive impact on the environment as well.  The following invention shows that when vegetables are manipulated to the fullest extent, they can be used for virtually anything imaginable.

The first ever race between cars was in 1887, the cars were mind numbingly slow, and the wheels seemed more like that of a bicycle instead of a modern day race car. Today formula one cars have intricate, powerful engines that can push the boundaries of speed to new limits. They all ran on gasoline powered engines, and lightweight metallic frames, until now.

A formula-3 race car made entirely from vegetables? The thought at first might be absurd, but one needs to see what James Meredith has materialized using this concept over the past few months. The vehicle has a two liter biodiesel engine that can run on vegetable oil left over from frying foods, or also on chocolate powder. The wheel has a carrot base and the wing mirror is made using potato starch. The list goes on and on, showing how every unique part of the race car has pieces of vegetable integrated inside: the body is made from recycled bottles, the seats from soybean oil and recycled foam.

If environmentalists thought the new generation vehicles could not get any greener, the vegetable race car is as environmentally friendly as it gets.

More Info.:

• http://www.worldfirstracing.co.uk/
• http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/