Carpuccino, the car that runs on ground coffee

Bored of drinking coffee? Well, you can give your cup of coffee to this car and it’ll drink it up! It may sound extraordinary, but this car does run on coffee. It costs around 25 to 50 times more to get this car up and running compared to a petrol powered car. So, it isn’t really an alternative. Christened as the “Car-puccino”, this £400 modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco will be driven 210 miles between Manchester and London powered by roasted coffee granules. Built by a team known as Bang Goes The Theory, the car will be unveiled at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester. The Carpuccino will go three miles per kilo of ground coffee, which totals up to about 56 espressos per mile. 70 kilos of ground coffee costing between £910 and £1,820 will be used for this journey.

Every 30 to 45 miles, the team will fill it up with more granules. Owing to the stops and despite its 60mph speed, the car will take 10 hours to complete this journey at the cost of 11,760 espressos.


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