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For its sixth concept vehicle, the ecomotive team at the Eindhoven University of Technology will build Luca – a sporty compact EV that's built using a bio-based composite that includes plastic waste reclaimed from the ocean.
[...] The idea is to implement as much waste as possible when building the Luca concept car. Its chassis is to be made using a composite material with reclaimed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sandwiched between outer layers of flax. The body will be formed using a new material being developed in collaboration with Israeli startup UBQ, which will combine its additive derived from household waste with recycled polypropylene (PP). There will also be recycled aluminum spaceframes front and rear.
Building cars from waste. Maybe hoarders are onto something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @04:32AM (4 children)
> What an idiotic idea!
What's wrong with a demonstration/student project that tries to use recycled materials where ever possible? They are only doing one car, probably learning quite a bit about material science and the realities of recycling...in addition to hands-on learning about automotive engineering and project management.
Like any R&D, they might hit on a useful material. If it winds up being useful for a cheap and durable cover for the spare tire well, headliner stuffing (or any car part) mass production could be millions of units. This will reduce the need to make new plastics, surely that's a good thing.
Or are you just objecting to a poorly formed sentence?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 17 2020, @07:17AM (3 children)
As a non-native english speaker: can "implement" have also the meaning of "include"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by choose another one on Friday January 17 2020, @11:19AM (1 child)
Not really. However, it might well in other languages. To me, that sentence reads like something translated (or possibly written) by a non-native speaker.
You could "implement with as much waste as possible", or "implement using" but "implement X with Y" would be more correct order for the whole sentence.
It could be a typo/auto-incorrect for "include", but it reads more like a slightly dodgy translation and with the project being from Eindhoven I think that is more likely.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday January 17 2020, @03:01PM
Implementing X is making X, not destroying it. I think they meant "Use X".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:40PM
I figure it's just like how Trump said he is giving a significant part of his salary to drugs.