Washington, Nov 19(ANI): Boise State University's intrepid student club Greenspeed has set a new record for building world's fastest vehicle that runs on vegetable oil.
The Greenspeed team had earlier broken the existing 109 metre per hour (mph) record for vegetable oil-fuelled vehicles with a run of 139 mph.
The team later with a 155 mph run, broke its own record at the Southern California Timing Association event on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert called El Mirage.
The Greenspeed club, comprises Boise State's College of Engineering graduates including Jenny Kniss, Ken Fukumoto, Adrian Rothenbuhler, Patrick Johnston and Seth Fueurborn.
"Nobody has pushed a vegetable oil vehicle like we have.It was an experiment. A very successful experiment. We are pioneering an entirely new category of motorsports," Greenspeed Founder Dave Schenker said.
Greenspeed's next target is to shatter its own 215 mph record for petroleum-fueled trucks and thus prove that vegetable oil is a viable source of energy and works as well as fossil fuels.
"They set a goal that they knew would be hard to achieve and they stayed with it. It's really a testament to their perseverance and their engineering skill. I'm really pleased to see them have such success," a Boise State University's mechanical and biomedical engineering professor, John Gardner said. (ANI)
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