Cars That Run on Trash? Is This The Future We’ve All Been Waiting For?

Forget traditional fossil fuels, this one runs on plastic.

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00:00When you imagine a hypercar, you probably picture a gas guzzling dragster, but what

00:08about a garbage guzzling one?

00:10This is the GB110, what developer Bertone says is the first hypercar that will run on

00:15waste.

00:16The car's engine features 1100 horsepower and can go from 0 to 60 in just 2.7 seconds,

00:21with the hypercar topping out at a whopping 236 miles per hour.

00:26But the company says the real draw is that you can toss garbage into its fuel tank to

00:29power the futuristic-looking vehicle, with Bertone's CEO saying about it, quote,

00:34We recognize that plastic waste is a major environmental problem.

00:37We have committed to developing technologies that convert polycarbonate materials into

00:41renewable and sustainable fuels, something they are calling their cutting-edge advanced

00:46plastic-to-fuel technology, a new type of fuel, which is now being used in everything

00:50from transportation to aviation fuel, and of course their newest hypercar.

00:54The company is only releasing 33 of the vehicles, all to commemorate Bertone's 110th anniversary,

00:59hence the GB110 nomenclature.