--- title: Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine description: Prince Charles drives a an Aston Martn Volante, which runs on white wine, which he claims is more powerful than gasoline. canonical: https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-08T16:42:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:48.108Z og:title: Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine og:description: There's a good reason for it og:url: https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2727cc4fbb06053e/69893e98929fadee37bf2055/prince-charles-car-runs-on-white-wine.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Prince Of Wales And Duchess Of Cornwall Visit Ghana og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine twitter:description: There's a good reason for it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2727cc4fbb06053e/69893e98929fadee37bf2055/prince-charles-car-runs-on-white-wine.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine and It Smells Delicious ## Video: All the Members of the British Royal Family, Ranked by Net Worth [Watch (HLS stream): All the Members of the British Royal Family, Ranked by Net Worth](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XAUKN6lm.m3u8) (1:17)  _Published 2018-03-14. MONEY_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 8, 2018 4:42 PM UTC  ACCRA, GHANA - NOVEMBER 05: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attends a State Dinner at Jubilee House on day six of the royal trip to west Africa on November 5, 2018 in Accra, Ghana (Photo by Joe Giddens - WPA Pool/Getty Images) ACCRA, GHANA - NOVEMBER 05: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attends a State Dinner at Jubilee House on day six of the royal trip to west Africa on November 5, 2018 in Accra, Ghana (Photo by Joe Giddens - WPA Pool/Getty Images)WPA Pool—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 8, 2018 4:42 PM UTC [Prince Charles](http://www.time.com/5448961/prince-charles-campaigning-king/) is the heir apparent to the British Throne, and for fuel, his car runs on [a crisp white wine.](http://time.com/money/5193394/adam-rippon-white-wine-oyster-bay/) According to [_The Telegraph_](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/11/08/charles-forced-aston-martin-make-car-run-wine-royal-train-cooking/), the Prince of Wales’s tony Aston Martin Volante, a car that he’s driven since he was 21, now runs entirely on surplus English wine after he insisted that Aston engineers find a more environmentally friendly option than fossil fuels. Charles says that this refreshing alternative means that his car “runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol.” Another upside to turning to this tipsy alternative fuel? “It smells delicious as you’re driving along,” he said. The Prince of Wales has been a longtime, vocal advocate for sustainable practices; he helped usher in the Royal Family’s first all-electric car, a Jaguar I-Pace, and helped lead the charge to switch the Royal Train’s fuel to used cooking oil. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/"},"headline":"Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine and It Smells Delicious","datePublished":"2018-11-08T16:42:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:48.108Z","description":"There's a good reason for it","url":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food","royals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2727cc4fbb06053e/69893e98929fadee37bf2055/prince-charles-car-runs-on-white-wine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2727cc4fbb06053e/69893e98929fadee37bf2055/prince-charles-car-runs-on-white-wine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Prince Of Wales And Duchess Of Cornwall Visit Ghana","caption":"The Prince Of Wales And Duchess Of Cornwall Visit Ghana","creditText":"WPA Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/","name":"Prince Charles Drives a Luxury Car That Runs on White Wine and It Smells Delicious"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"All the Members of the British Royal Family, Ranked by Net Worth","description":"MONEY","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XAUKN6lm/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-03-14T16:47:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XAUKN6lm.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/","duration":"PT1M17S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5449080/prince-charles-car/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```