Japan's
best-known toilet maker on Wednesday unveiled a "poop-powered"
motorcycle that can travel as far as 180 miles on a tank filled with animal
waste.
Billed as
the world's first waste-powered vehicle, the three-wheeler has a toilet in
place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back.
But as a
young female model climbed aboard for a test drive Wednesday, toilet giant TOTO
was quick to point out that she would not supply the "gas".
"The
biogas it uses as fuel is not made from human waste. It's made from livestock
waste and sewage," Kenji Fujita, a company spokesman, told reporters in a
Tokyo suburb.
"We
hope to raise awareness among customers about our green campaign through
development of environmentally-friendly products such as water-saving
showerheads and water-saving toilets," Fujita added.
The
company -- which makes toilets equipped with an array of features including
heated seats, water jets with pressure and temperature controls, and ambient
background music -- has no plans to commercialise the motorcycle
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