A video from late 2002 about hybrids, biodiesel, and straight vegetable oil, featuring members of biodieselnow.com
Pure Green Cars a alternative fuel vehicles.
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I have been running my 82 rabbit on 50% heating oil and 50% waste engine oil. The waste engine oil should be filtered with a 10 micron filter. Been running it for 4 years now. It is an alternative for those that don”t want to process Bio diesel. A diesel can run just about anything that is made of oil.
todd feinberg, rush limbaugh, jerry doyle and micheal savage will accuse you of hurting the economy,
265 miles? both my dads car and my car can easily do that, our diesel cars get 60+ mpg
@urbex2007 veg oil kills your car…. if your an idiot about it. Any well filtered system will work, assuming it’s not too cold. A well heated system is even better as it burns more fully, and lubricates injectors much better. The only thing at that point threatening your engine is carbon build up on the cylinder walls which will ruin rings. Go wide open throttle once in a while to avoid build up, and then every fifteen thousand or so miles (or once a year), do a diesel purge to clean it out.
50mpg from a hybrid is rubbish – i get 50+mpg from a turbo diesel car in the town and 72mpg on the motorway at 70mph. Biodiesel will eat through rubber seals and not provide enough lubrication to the pumps and injectors. Never use vege oil unless filtered and the acidity is adjusted, it kills your car!
Biodiesel can be made from used vegetable oil so they come from the same place really. You just need to make some conversions to the vegetable oil before running it in a diesel car.
Exactly. Friend of mine makes his rounds to the local restauranrs for his free fuel. Takes it home, does a little filtering and he’s ready to go.
Used vegetable oil is better than biodiesel because biodiesel needs to be grown as a crop which uses up valuable agricultural land and costs more to produce. Used vegetable oil is a waste product that would otherwise be thrown away.
Bring that vehicle to New York City!
actually the new vw bug with the deisel engine gets 54 mpg at least thats what everyone i have talked to that owns one. in fact theres aclub for bug owners that has contests to see who can get the best milage from a gallen of deisel.the record is get this 186 mpg would love to see that in a hybred .
Informative.
I will never give up the fight to legalize hemp. There would be no real America with out hemp. In fact, only the native American Indians would be here with out hemp. In fact, there would be no recorded history with out hemp. Hemp is no Marijuana, this fact which is not well known by most people, is the problem. People are ignorant in America, I don’t think you should wave an American Flag unless you know this nations history, the true history, of which HEMP not cannabis, was an integral part.
if its legalized in us but rumer is that pot is mexico cash crop. wich explains why us dont legalize and tax like cigaretts which kills more people than all illicet drugs plus prescription drugs car wrecks all wars and alcohol and suicides put together. so forget about legl hemp even though it was grown by farmers for hemp rope used to more ships till nylon rope was invented now sailers get cut in half when a nylon rope breaks from the salt water causes it to rot inside out hemp dont rot.
true it does freeze thats why the old international harester had a piggy back motor to pre heat every thig befor switching to bio.also a freind mixes bio with reguler deisel
NOTE: Spilled Biodiesel is NOT Vegetable Oil…
Thanks for the info.
The Methanol in the Biodiesel is airplane/race car fuel and also found in a bottle of HEAT Dry gas so no; it will not gel
Biodiesel is not straight vegetable oil; it is a mixture of vegetable oil and methanol.
If you listen at 2:35 you will hear that the Biodiesel pump is B20 meaning only 20% of the fuel is Biodiesel and the other 80% is regular diesel fuel.
With an extra fuel tank and conversion you can switch between diesel and vegetable oil once the oil is up to temperature.
So all PD engines are ok,I got a 1.4??
When people wake up, they will recognize the original bio diesel fuel= HEMP!
i will like to have specific modelled engines for biodiesel cars for my area.
someone’s trash is ones’s treasure.
My other concern would be whether or not a biodiesel car can run in cold weather since vegetable oil freezes like jelly. I wonder if antifreeze could be added to avoid that problem?
easy to convert I have been running cars for years here in the uk with waste veg oil .Just make sure the car has a BOSCH injector pump NOt a LUCAS/CAV
I would like to buy a car that runs on biodiesel fuel. 50 miles per gallon? You can’t go wrong-and especially with the gas prices here in New York.