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British man powers DIY car with discarded vapes

Mack DeGeurin

created: March 11, 2026, 7:03 p.m. | updated: March 15, 2026, 5:42 a.m.

But what if all those discarded vapes could be reused to power something else? In the past, he has collected hundreds of discarded vapes and combined them to power a “dodgy e-bike”. Naturally, those experiments led him to an even more daunting challenge: powering (and driving) an electric vehicle using discarded vapes. Turing scavenged vapes into a working battery packDoel says that he found many of his discarded vapes at the littered grounds of a music festival. “I bet that none of the 500 people who smoked them vapes ever expected their vapes to be literally powering my house, and now my car,” Doel added.

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