{"id":15175,"date":"2011-12-12T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/coke-and-mentos-powered-car-set-a-record-for-the-longest-distance-traveled.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T10:02:22","slug":"coke-and-mentos-powered-car-set-a-record-for-the-longest-distance-traveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/coke-and-mentos-powered-car-set-a-record-for-the-longest-distance-traveled.php","title":{"rendered":"Coke and Mentos powered car set a record for the longest distance traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlaunches.com\/entry_images\/1211\/12\/mentos-and-diet-coke-powered-car.php\" onclick=\"window.open(&#039;http:\/\/www.newlaunches.com\/entry_images\/1211\/12\/mentos-and-diet-coke-powered-car.php&#039;,&#039;popup&#039;,&#039;width=628,height=460,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mentos-and-diet-coke-powered-car-thumb-450x329.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"329\" alt=\"mentos-and-diet-coke-powered-car.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve been flag-bearers of all that\u2019s green and alternative-fuel-use has been one of those things we\u2019ve been vocalizing.  However, experimenting duo Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz seem to have taken the whole \u201calternate-fuels\u201d concept in a slightly twisted way, with this little seriously-uneconomical contraption on wheels. Called the Mark II, the vehicle powers up with Diet Coke and Mentos, the mixture of which creates explosions. Using 54 bottles of Coke Zero and about 324 Mentos candies, which to us seems like a serious waste of edible material, this vehicle broke a record by travelling a distance of 239 feet, the longest ever to have covered by a vehicle powered with candies and soda!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhFwiFHWat8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nVia &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlaunches.com\/archives\/diet_coke_and_mentos_powered_car_travels_to_239_feet.php\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Newlaunches<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been flag-bearers of all that\u2019s green and alternative-fuel-use has been one of those things we\u2019ve been vocalizing. However, experimenting duo Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz seem to have taken the whole \u201calternate-fuels\u201d concept in a slightly twisted way, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/coke-and-mentos-powered-car-set-a-record-for-the-longest-distance-traveled.php\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Continue reading3 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1549,3884,638],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coke and Mentos powered car set a record for the longest distance traveled -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/transport\/coke-and-mentos-powered-car-set-a-record-for-the-longest-distance-traveled.php\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coke and Mentos powered car set a record for the longest distance traveled -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019ve been flag-bearers of all that\u2019s green and alternative-fuel-use has been one of those things we\u2019ve been vocalizing. 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