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Sports Car Powered by Wine, Cheese and Chocolate
Lotus Engineering has created a sports car that runs on three very expensive vices: ethanol made from undrinkable wine, whey (a byproduct of the cheese-making process) and surplus chocolate.

“So it runs on chocolate, cheese, and wine in the same way that your normal car runs on dead dinosaurs,” Geekosystem notes. “Still, it makes for an interesting angle on ethanol… .”

Anyhow, the 270 hp sports car, called the Exige 270E Tri-fuel, “does 0-60 in just under four seconds and tops out around 158 mph; it’s one of the fastest road legal vehicles in the world,” Discovery Channel online explains. “Its 4-cylinder, 1.8 liter engine is even internally sealed so no engine oil is required.”

According to Discovery, “Lotus hopes to someday power the car using methanol, and not wine.”

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Electric Car Powered by Single-Malt Whiskey
A businessman in Scotland is powering his Nissan electric Leaf by single-malt whiskey.

The 130-year-old Bruichladdich Scotch whiskey distillery, on the Scottish isle of Islay, uses technology that extracts gas from the waste products of whiskey production, and this gas is then used to power a generator that produces electricity.

That electricity not only powers the entire distillery, but also charges distillery managing director Mark Reynier’s recently acquired Leaf.

“To celebrate the feat, Nissan and Bruichladdich have teamed up for a special Leaf edition organic whisky,” AutoBlogGreen reports.

Cheers.