{"id":265,"date":"2010-06-07T14:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-06-07T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:08:40","slug":"coke-and-mentos-fuel-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/coke-and-mentos-fuel-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke and Mentos Fuel a Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These guys from Maine are great for the future of eco-friendly fuel, I think.\u00a0 They are the ones who became\u00a0 online sensations by creating  geysers from soda and Mentos candies have discovered it\u2019s not just  entertainment. It can propel vehicles, as well.<\/p>\n<p>A contraption created by Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of  Buckfield using a bike and a trailer is powered by piston mechanism  using hundreds of pieces of Mentos candy and Coke Zero.<\/p>\n<p>On a video posted online Tuesday, the machine traveled more than  220 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The video was directed by Rob Cohen of \u201cThe Fast and the  Furious.\u201d Grobe joked that the crew is calling it \u201cThe Fizzy and the  Furious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The geyser experiment used Diet Coke. This time, the crew used  Coke Zero. Afterward, they toasted their success by sipping Coke Zero  from champagne glasses.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i-hXcRtbj1Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"520\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i-hXcRtbj1Y&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These guys from Maine are great for the future of eco-friendly fuel, I think.\u00a0 They are the ones who became\u00a0 online sensations by creating geysers from soda and Mentos candies have discovered it\u2019s not just entertainment. It can propel vehicles, as well. A contraption created by Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Buckfield using a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[519,509,510,512],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-cars","category-fun-and-humor","category-green-news","category-green-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}