Car-puccino!

Yes, it is the day you have all been waiting for, the answer to global warming and the destruction of the O-Zone layer, deforestation and the soaring petrol prices!

I give you… The Carpuccino! (Full infographic- http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2010/03/10/coffee-car-diagram.jpg)

This car was chosen for its resemblance to the cult classic DeLorean from the time travelling hit Back To The Future starring Micheal J Fox, a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco bought for a measly £400.

What they did to it will go down in history…maybe.

It has been modified and adapted by a team from the BBC1 programme Bang Goes The Theory to display at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester, its main purpose was to highlight the potentiality for other fuels to be used to power cars…apart from being truly awesome, of course.

The planned journey for the car was to start off in Manchester and navigate the 210 miles to the London, England. Powered by what? I hear you ask – you guessed it, coffee.

The caffeinated creative geniuses behind this venture have created a car that runs primarily off one fuel. Ground up coffee beans.

They theorised that the Carpuccino would do 3 miles per kilo of ground coffee, approximately 56 espressos per mile.

The journey from Manchester to London would use roughly 70 kilos (154lbs) of fresh ground coffee.

Now depending on blend preference and quality, we estimated that a bag would be on average around £13 and £26 a kilo. This meant that the 210 mile journey would actually cost between £910 and £1,820 single fare. So it would cost about 25 to 50 times more the approximate £36 cost of petrol for the journey.

Oh dear, not the green, coffee-coughing solution we were hoping for then?

It seems that it would be safe to conclude that based on this model we can draw a line through coffee as a possible, variable alternative fuel source.

Yes, it does the trick for getting you up and running on a morning but for the same effect with a car it seems it would just break the bank balance, even if it would smell absolutely amazing to be stuck in a traffic jam with all the Arabica and Robusta fumes everywhere.