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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @12:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @12:59AM (#944338)

    They are dutch. You may have heard of them, for pots and prostitutes (and that nasty noise called "gabba"). They have "live" sex act shows. Robots are heard to say: "girls, I can do way better than that meatbag bitch".

    Plastic waste, yeah, they are "plastic", and they are "waste."

    Gouda is ok, though.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:54PM (#945004)

      That's a relief. I misread the headline as Lucas.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:10AM (#944352)

    > additive derived from household waste with recycled polypropylene (PP).

    PP has recycling symbol "5" (in USA) and our curbside recycling stopped taking it last year. For awhile we could drop it off at a Whole Foods that we go by once every month or so, but that isn't an option, the program ended last fall. I asked the Gimme 5 recycling company and they said I could mail my PP containers to them--pretty hard to believe that using the USPS is a net win for recycling plastic (given the fuel required for shipping).

    I hope that this Dutch demonstration project comes up with some new uses for PP, which would raise its value enough to make it worthwhile to separate from consumer waste.

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday January 17 2020, @02:43AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday January 17 2020, @02:43AM (#944362) Journal

    1. Collect waste from ocean
    2. Select/sort suitable types of plastic
    3. Dispose of remainder (back into the ocean, or somewhere else, likely at not insignificant cost)
    4. Buy flax
    5. Collect "household waste"(urea?)
    6. Make car parts
    7. Profit?

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:47AM (#944366)

    Way too many "Israeli Startups"® in the news lately.

    So must for divesting out of middle eastern apartheid...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @02:49AM (#944369)

      So much for divesting out of middle eastern apartheid...!

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday January 17 2020, @03:00PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @03:00PM (#944539) Homepage Journal

      Eindhoven is in the Netherlands, not in the Middle East.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:22PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @09:22PM (#944731)

        FTFS:

        in collusion collaboration with Israeli startup UBQ

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 17 2020, @03:45AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @03:45AM (#944397) Journal

    The idea is to implement as much waste as possible

    Huh? What an idiotic idea!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @04:32AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @04:32AM (#944418)

      > 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)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 17 2020, @07:17AM (#944439) Journal

        As a non-native english speaker: can "implement" have also the meaning of "include"?

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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.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:40PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @03:40PM (#944556)

          I figure it's just like how Trump said he is giving a significant part of his salary to drugs.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:53AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @07:53AM (#944448)

    Isn't PP sensitive to UV radiation? After a few years your car would crumble to tiny bits (releasing the plastic back into the environment). Not to speak about driver's safety.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 17 2020, @11:52AM (#944501)

      UV sensitivity may be one of the issues they address? Perhaps some coating or additive will be tested as part of this R&D project.

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