This methane car modeled around cow’s digestive system

When designers take their briefs too literally you can expect nothing short of a shocking concoction. While you may imagine this to be something strewn with bovine macabre but hey, when you look at the result it isn’t so bad after all. Yi-Wen Tseng, a graduate from the Royal College of Art has imagine a car that is powered by bio-printed organs! He has been inspired by a cow’s digestive process to fuel a car and set it in motion. Cows are known to expel large amounts of methane gas and this was the model used by Tseng in his model. He paired a cow’s digestive process with a 3D bio-printing process, which is normally used to develop artificial organs for transplants, he managed to create an alternative fuel system. The four synthetic stomachs of a cow are housed at the rear of the car and facilitates filtration, methane production and digestion.


The input is actual grass and the digestive process is for real. “The shape and structure are designed to strengthen each bio-function and also replace the function of muscles,” said Tseng. “When the driver uses the stomachs to fuel the vehicle, it returns a bio-waste.”

[ Via : Dezeen ]