Alternative Fuel World

Check out this guy’s video of his electric-powered 1975 Beetle. His electric Volkswagen Bug raises a simple question. What’s the answer?

Put quite simply, an alternative-fueled car is one that runs on non-traditional gasoline or diesel. In other words, it is powered by something other than just petroleum, which would include the standard plug-in electric cars, gas-electric hybrids or those which are solar powered. Now the compressed-air-powered piston engine cars with zero admissions are gaining mainstream attention as refill stations will soon be widely available in California. There is also hydrogen, liquid nitrogen, CNG Natural Gas, biofuels, steam and pedal-assisted hybrids. Whether any of these are viable for popular usage remains to be seen and is dependant on several factors and scenarios.

Now that you know what methanol is, one limited use for methanol is in automotive fuel. Internal combustion engines, mainly  by virture of the fact that is it not nearly as falmmable as gasoline.

Pure methanol is required by rule to be used in USAC sprint cars, midgets, modifieds, etc etc, other dirt track series and Champcars.

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HHO (Oxyhydrogen) is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gasses in a 2:1 ratio. The 2:1 ratio is the same proportion as water. The gaseous mixture is commonly used for high temperture cutting torches and processing refactrory materials.

HHO used as a fuel or fuel additive to increase your automotive energy is widely speculated and no claims have ever been proven, as a matter of fact most have already been proven false due to the conservation of energy laws. Which states that the total amount of energy in any isolated system remains constantbut cannot be recreated although it may change forms.

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The Chevrolet Impala has been one of the best selling cars for the last 50 years. Every year the Impala gets more and more improvements in the car, on the outside and this year under the hood!

The 2008 Cheverolet Impala marks the first year that the popular car is available to run on E85 Ethanol fuel. The Impala didn’t sacrifice any engine sizes or power either to achieve this. The E85 will run on most the models for the Impala. THe SS Impala with the V8 engine is the only trim level that will run soley on gasoline.

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Think of them as big batteries, but ones that only operate when fuel—in this case, pure hydrogen—is supplied to them. When it is, an electrochemical reaction takes place between the hydrogen and oxygen that directly converts chemical energy into electrical energy. Various types of fuel cells exist, but the one automakers are primarily focusing on for fuel cell cars is one that relies on a proton-exchange membrane, or PEM. In the generic PEM fuel cell pictured at left, the membrane lies sandwiched between a positively charged electrode (the cathode) and a negatively charged electrode (the anode). In the simple reaction that occurs here rests the hope of engineers, policymakers, and ordinary citizens that someday we’ll drive entirely pollution-free cars.

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