Category | Alternative Fueled Cars

What is an alternative fueled vehicle?

Posted on 27 June 2008

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 [...]

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Methanol As An Alternative Automotive Fuel

Posted on 21 June 2008

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 [...]

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What Is HHO?

Posted on 21 June 2008

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 [...]

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The E85 Powered Chevy Impala

Posted on 21 June 2008

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 [...]

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How Fuel Cells Work

Posted on 20 June 2008

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 [...]

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