{"id":27032,"date":"2020-11-12T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=27032"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:57:51","slug":"a-car-made-almost-entirely-out-of-waste-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/11\/12\/a-car-made-almost-entirely-out-of-waste-material\/","title":{"rendered":"A car made almost entirely out of waste material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bright yellow, sporty two-seater which the students named &#8216;Luca&#8217;, can reach a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and has a reach of 220 kilometres when fully charged, the Technical University of Eindhoven said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This car is really special, because it&#8217;s made all out of waste&#8221;, project manager Lisa van Etten said.<br><br>Hard plastics normally found in televisions, toys and kitchen appliances were used for the car&#8217;s body, while the seat cushions consist of coconut and horse hairs.<br><br>The car was designed and built by a group of 22 students in around 18 months, Van Etten said, as an effort to prove the potential of waste.<br><br>&#8220;We really hope that car companies will start using waste materials&#8221;, production team member Matthijs van Wijk said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible in many applications. More and more companies use waste or bio-based materials in the interior, we want to show that it&#8217;s also possible to build a chassis out of it.&#8221;<br><br>Gadgets 360<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made entirely out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage. The bright yellow, sporty two-seater which the students named &#8216;Luca&#8217;, can reach a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and has a reach of 220 kilometres when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27034,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions\/27034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}