Now, we have the technology to run cars on solar power, electricity from your house, gasoline, diesel, ethanol from corn, ethanol from waste, and some enterprising scientists have even found a way to create bio diesel from coffee grounds. Seemingly every day, we have found new ways to fuel our vehicles. It's actually quite a revolutionary time in automobile technology.
While this technology hasn't quite seeped completely into mainstream automobiles yet, it is still possible to find alternative fuel vehicles to drive yourself. One alternative fuel that is very popular with the do-it-yourself crowd, is biodiesel. It is the fuel that you can make yourself from waste vegetable oil or from other sources. The cool thing about biodiesel is that you can convert an old diesel vehicle, which is cheap, to use it just by replacing the hoses. Even better, biodiesel actually runs your diesel engine more smoothly than regular diesel.
Of course, you can't write about alternative fuel powered cars without talking about the hybrid fuel phenomenon, the Toyota Prius. That vehicle has single-handedly taken hybrid cars to the masses and hasn't looked back. Because of that car, other companies such as Ford, Chevrolet, and Chrysler are all working as fast as they can to create a real competitor.
All of this just means more choice and better choices for each and every one of us. We are lucky that while fuel prices have skyrocketed beyond what we ever thought it would, that there are smart people still want to solve this problem.
You can easily convert your car into an electric car or a hydrogen powered car using car conversion kits.
Ronald Wesley is a professional car power analyst.
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