Or what about alcohol? http://www.permaculture.com/book_menu/360/518 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jew3ah24Zj4 This guy, David Blume, is a hippie reject, but...
Greg, <<Well frankly you could have stopped reading at that point. 100% hydrogen fueled IC engines are a ridiculous concept. They are politically attractive,...
... Nothing wrong with alcohol as a fuel (not actually true, but those problems seem to have pretty easy solutions), I am yet to be convinced that it is a good...
... Irrelevant, your car is not 100% hydrogen fuelled and never will be ... Irrelevant. They have built a 100% hydrogen fuelled car, you have not, and it is as...
Greg, Now I get it. Bottom line is you are trying to put down Hydrogen/CNG technologies because you are selling LPG. CNG/Hydrogen is bad for your bottom...
boy, you really are slow on the uptake. He's not opposed to CNG/h because he's selling LPG, he's selling LPG because the CNG/H really is a terrible idea....
... We sell cars, not kits. I was trying to give you some realistic advice, from an engineering viewpoint. However, since technical advice is not appreciated...
I was exchanging emails with another guy in Bazil (another Yahoo discussion group ) who said that CNG conversions are mainstream over there especially taxis....
Recently the New Nissan Land Cruiser zero emissions ( electric ) experimental vehicle was unveiled to the media at the companies technical design center in...
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To effectively boost OBDII-compliant cars one needs to understand the relationship between a few OBDII parameters, specifically Engine Speed (RPM), Engine Load...
Here's a case where downsizing the engine resulted in worse fuel economy in practice despite the superior results on the lab tests. Now I'd admit the actual...
I've read online of a couple where the wife drives a little Suzuki Swift I think, and the husband drives a fairly new Corvette. On long highway drives they...
This lastest breakthrough in membrane technology reportedly allows hydrocabon fuels to be used directly without reformation or cleanup. The technology seems to...
By comparison.... Our '97 plain Jane Civic LX sedan 5spd, with modest hypermiling techniques, gets 40-42MPG city and 48-52 highway. That's at 170k miles, and...
Re: "Our '97 plain Jane Civic LX sedan 5spd, with modest hypermiling techniques, gets 40-42MPG city and 48-52 highway." That's great mpg, especially city. The...
A good CNG Conversion Kit ECU has the following properties: 1. Emulates O2 sensor values 2. Advances ignition timing 3. Copies the fuel map and readjusts to...
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... It'll be interesting to see how the EcoBoost Fiesta behaves in the real world. I should be getting one next year. The proto we've got gets 54 mpUSg (4.4...
Read research US Dept of Energy / OSTI on CNG/Hydrogen blended fuel testing results http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/809114-OkfzRR/native/809114.pdf...
saint mess - Normally, it's considered good netiquette to summarize what the article you're linking to says before providing the link, rather than ordering...
Roger, I was alluding to water electrolytic cell to generate hydrogen to boost CNG fueled car. CNG conversion costs about $2,000 + tank. My tiny electrolytic...
Internal combustion engines run at very low relative efficiencies with most of the energy being converted to heat. Diesel engines are more efficient that spark...
Greg, Preliminary results have been posted in the photo section. It took a while to get things sorted for the experiment, so I've only had the device up and...
The Hydrogen car is closer than we think. Consider the ff: 1. Uses CNG ECU This ECU will emulate/ignore O2 sensor values, adjusts ignition timing, copy the ...
Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. announced today that it will be working with the United States Army to develop a next-generation battery...
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