Filed under: Biodiesel, Diesel, MPG, Vegetable Oil, Green Daily, Automotive X-Prize, Lightweight, USA
Generally speaking, purchasing an eco-friendly automobile is an expensive proposition. One way to reduce that cost is by going homemade. Such is the case with Jack McCormack from Kinetic Vehicles, who decided that he would love to have fun, practical, affordable and high-mileage two seater under $10 grand.
The resulting car is called the MAX: Mother's Automotive eXperiment. Although the initial goal was to reach the 100 mpg mark set for the Auto X Prize, the resulting car turned out to be a little far from this objective and was totaled in an accident. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured.
McCormack has rebuilt the car and hopes to accomplish the X Prize target with a custom-built streamlined body on a Locost chassis, a 32-horsepower three-cylinder diesel engine from Kubota, old Toyota Corolla parts and plenty of custom bits and pieces. The car is driven either with diesel, biodiesel or SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil). You can read the complete story at his site. We wish McCormack the best!
[Source: Kinetic Vehicles]
Meet the MAX: Homemade biodiesel-powered Lotus Seven replica originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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