wood car

No one can argue successfully that the world's vehicles should run on wood, but that doesn't mean that no one should be tooling around on timber, or that the technology isn't fascinating. Here are some interesting tidbits from an article in Low-Tech Magazine about wood-powered cars: Year ...

Click above for high-res gallery of the Splinter Wooden SupercarWhen we first reported on the Splinter, we thought that the students at North Carolina State University had no intentions of building the unique wooden supercar. Apparently, we were wrong. As much of the interior and exterior of the ...

This is the second vehicle that we've shown you which is made almost entirely of biomass. The first one was undoubtedly cool and used hemp materials for the bodywork. That car ran on ethanol and would be a first class ride for the right person, and it was capable of 150 miles per hour. This one, on ...

I'm not really sure what to say about this car. I guess I'll start by admitting that this is not really a "green" car, I am posting about it anyway, because I thought you might like it. I am not sure if this car is really wood under the wooden "scales" that adorn the outer skin, and I can't ...