For all of the hype about our electrical future, it’s necessary to keep in mind that no vitality resolution is ideal and we should always continuously, creatively pursue modern approaches to fueling our wheels.
That’s the message 22-year-old College of British Columbia engineering scholar Alex Jennison and his workforce are searching for to unfold in a fairly uncommon method.
As bonkers as the thought of utilizing a tractor engine in a bike is, this yellow, brown and inexperienced coloration scheme kinda works, amiright?Alex Jennison
See, to make his case that biodiesel (sourceable from eating places, amongst different locations) is superior to electrical (which comes at the price of, Jennison factors out, lethal cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of the Congo), he constructed a bike.
However not simply any motorbike. A 1999 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail with a tractor engine that runs on used vegetable oil, which he plans to trip 1,200 miles from Vancouver to Los Angeles, with a number of college publicity stops alongside the way in which.
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So why this bike and this engine?
“Kubota gifted us the engine to show that clear fuels are viable,” he instructed Canadian automotive web site Driving. “I selected the 1999 Harley-Davidson as a result of it’s the final mannequin to have the engine and gearbox separated as a substitute of mated collectively.”
