Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Alternative fuel vehicles stand to be this nation's deliverance from dependence upon foreign oil. From hydrogen to solar to natural gas and ethanol, alternative fuel vehicles will change the landscape and roadways of driving in the very near future.

Alternative fuel vehicles are only dependent upon the manufacturers to make the alternative fuels and the infrastructure to store and deliver the fuels. Alternative fuels such as propane, methanol, biodiesel and p-series fuels are already in use in various places around the world. On some racetracks and jet packs, hydrogen peroxide is also being used.

Alternative fuel vehicles generally deliver reduced pollutants and exhaust emissions that current petroleum based vehicles. With current gasoline prices so high and the big oil companies raking in billions in revenue, its no wonder there is a renewed interest in alternative fuel vehicles as viable solutions in the coming months and years.

Being held hostage by the whims of OPEC is another aspect that many would like to shed. In addition, the positive environmental impacts such as reducing greenhouse gases and addressing a reversal of global warming has many others seeing the benefits that alternative fuel vehicles play in our future.

Some of the recent car manufacturers have introduced flex-fuel and bi-fuel vehicles into the marketplace. Flex-fuel vehicles have a single fuel system, tank and engine and can run on either unleaded gasoline or on an alcohol fuel such as ethanol or methanol mixture. Bi-fuel vehicles have two separate fuel systems with the ability to switch back and forth between the systems. One system is usually designed to run on gasoline or diesel and the other system usually runs on compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied propane gas (LPG).

These transitional alternative fuel vehicles offer great promise in educating and acclimating the public about the need to switch to alternative methods for economic and environmental reasons. On this website we intend to explain some of the popular and not so popular alternative fuel vehicles and the science and technology behind them.

If you believe in ideas like "Who killed the electric car" then you'll want to investigate further how all of us can do our parts to see to it that big corporations don't have a strangle hold on alternative fuels and vehicles like they do in today's world. That said, we also need to do our part so that our own government doesn't get in the way of progress, either. AFVs are the future and look for a new TV show coming out in the summer of 2007 called "Future Ridez" on PBS.

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