I didn't know that this combination was possible until the recent article about a converted camper / motor home with more than 200bhp in German magazines and newspapers. Here is a list of Diesel / Gas converters I found:
- The spectacular Goldschmitt / Hymer camper conversion: very fast, very efficient, quite clean
- German-Australian innovator Uli Kruger h, though his company Alternative Engine Technologies hasn't updated the news section since early 2008.
- An Australian specialist dieselgas.com.au had specialised in such LPG Diesel conversions, though the website economical on background info, history or people.
- Another Australian specialist dieselgasaustralia.com.au
- A German / Dutch LPG Diesel converter, gasotronic.
- A Dutch specialist IWEMA LPG
When writing this post i was reminded of a cover story of the magazine by FastCompany couple of years ago. FC praised Jonathan Goodwin and his Diesel conversions as the next big thing: bio Diesel from used oil, turbines, hybrids, hydrogen - Diesel injection, 80 to 100 miles per gallon and all that by converting the beast of all vehicles, the Hummer H1. In short we were promised the revolution, that didn't happen of course.
When inspecting the technology closely, the Hlineconversion Diesels are Biodiesels combined with CNG (Compressed natural Gas) or Ethanol. Both Biodiesel and Ethanol have one common limitation, we need to grow that stuff and that is hardly effcient and only helps regions which have those crops or the waste in abundance.
CNG needs big solid tanks and therefore small cars are unlikely to ever run CNG in great numbers.
But LPG is much more practical, less pressure, smaller tanks and in many countries the LPG station infrastructure is quite good. Normal petrol stations increasingly add Autogas / LPG pumps. The great thing about Autogas / LPG is the possibility to convert the huge numbers of existing cars and trucks which are unlikely to disappear within the next 20 years.
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