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posted by martyb on Friday January 17 2020, @12:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the trashy-auto dept.

New Atlas:

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by choose another one on Friday January 17 2020, @11:19AM (1 child)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @11:19AM (#944495)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday January 17 2020, @03:01PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @03:01PM (#944540) Homepage Journal

    Implementing X is making X, not destroying it. I think they meant "Use X".