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155 MPH Biofuel Truck Breaks Speed Record

Posted by Soulskill on from the zoom-zoom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of students from Boise University recently shattered the world land speed record for biofuel vehicles by traveling 155 mph in a vegetable oil-powered pick-up truck dubbed the Greenspeed. To achieve the speed record the vehicle was upgraded with a compound-turbocharged 5.9 liter Cummins straight-six diesel engine that produces 700 horsepower, and it ran on an oil mix consisting of cottonseed and sunflower oil."

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  1. Re:I want one. by BigBlueOx · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's close. Real close. Once the problem of eliminating the capacitive reluctance inside the hydrocoptic marzelvanes is solved (simply an engineering fix) control of the milford trunions will in the range of 90%. Any day now.

  2. Re:I want one. by The+Wild+Norseman · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is more of a So What. The BioFuel Truck can travel at 155MPH so what.

    This is Boise, Idaho we're talking about.

    I'm just surprised the thing could make it past sixty what with the requisite naked woman silhouette mudflaps and beer keg in the back...

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