Biodegradable Car Made of Sugar Beets and Flax Tours Netherlands
A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, unveiled a biodegradable car made almost entirely of sugar beets resin and flax during Dutch Technology Week [1] on May 17, 2017. Since then, students from the team have been touring the roads of the Netherlands in the car to showcase their creation.
The “core material” of the car is a “honeycomb structure” produced from sugar beet, according to a TU/e press release [2]. “It is enveloped in bio-composite sheets that have been composed on the basis of flax, a plant that is also grown in the Netherlands,” reported the university, noting that the bodywork of the car is also made from flax.
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