Alternative car fuels

Liquefied Petroleum Gas, abbreviated as LPG, is an internal combustion engine fuel, a mixture of propane and butane. It is an alternative to gasoline / petrol, in some countries it is very popular. In Poland, where I live, it’s very popular because it’s price is less than half of gasoline price! Because of that the cost of autogas (common name for LPG) conversion is returned pretty quick. (more…)

In this article we’ll think if it’s is possible and reasonable to use hydrogen as car fuel. I posted some time ago an article about hydrogen fuel car, this will be the second article on hydrogen.

Hydrogen was used as energy carrier for long time. It can be produced from plain water, and can be burnt in engines, burners or other devices to produce energy. But can hydrogen be energy source for automobile transport? (more…)

I put this article here as a reference to all other articles on LPG - Liquefied Petroleum Gas. In most cases autogas is the same fuel as LPG, but LPG is also used in many other ways, for example for cooking. Since this article is a little different than the previous article about autogas, I believe that it’ll be an interesting addition to the Encyclopedia.

The site automatically downloads the article from Wikipedia, so you can say it is up to date. (more…)

I put this article here as a reference to all other articles on autogas. I’ll write a article or two about this fuel here, because in many countries autogas is considered a very cheap and convenient gasoline (petrol) alternative. Though it is not a biofuel, it surely is alternative car fuel, so it has to be written about here.

The site automatically downloads the article from Wikipedia, so you can say it is up to date. (more…)