Prince Charles Reveals Car Runs on Cheese and Wine Biofuel
by Thomas Bywater (New Zealand Herald) … Called E85, the fuel is a potent cocktail of distilled bioethanol from waste wine and fermented dairy solids.
The vintage Aston Martin DB6 which has been in the prince’s possession for 51 years was modified to run on the mixture – roughly 85-per cent biofuel cut with 15 -per cent unleaded petrol.
While the Prince may have weaned his sports car off petroleum, experts have warned that biofuel may not be a scalable solution.
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He (HRH the Prince of Wales) revealed the in the doco Charles at 70 that not everyone was thrilled with the idea:
“The engineers at Aston said, ‘Oh, it’ll ruin the whole thing.’
“I said, ‘Well I won’t drive it then’, so they got on with it and now they admit that it runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol.” READ MORE
Prince Charles says his Aston Martin runs on wine and cheese byproducts (WashingtonPost)