Cars made of fruit? That’s bananas!

Now, we all know the importance of eating lots of fruit and vegetables, but Brazilian scientists may have taken things a little bit too far.

According to experts, in about two years’ time we might see cars made from pineapples and bananas.


Vehicle body-parts and engine pieces may soon be manufactured using “nano-sized fruit fibres,” says a spokesperson for the project at Sao Paulo State University.

The fibres are light, but very strong – 30 per cent lighter and three to four times stronger than regular plastic”.

This would mean that cars made with these fruit fibre parts could be much more economical with fuel, since the engine would have to work less hard to move the vehicle about.

This might seem like a very strange idea, but we like the sound of it – it’s pearfectly insane, but applesolutly delightful.

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