Are you driving a diesel and using biodiesel? If so, what are you driving and do you make your own fuel?

Question

We drive an 06 VW Jetta TDI an 99 Ford F250 w/Powerstroke diesel. We brew about 75% of the fuel we use from used restaurant oil. Americans collectively spend $450,000 a minute to buy foreign oil. It is great to reduce our personal petrodiesel consumption. Also, a diesel engine is app. 25-30% more effiecient than a gasoline engine..resulting in increased fuel economy.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Here in Europe the older diesels are making a come back. You can use almost any type of plant oil to run the engine. Some folks are collecting the old frying oil from food places and filtering out any junk and water.

Watch out running home brew or cooking oil in a TDI or CDI motor. These motors use extremely high pressure fuel injection through EXTEMELY small injector nozzles. They are not forgiving if the fuel is incorrect (ie.. dirt, water, gasoline etc..) But on the good side, they are more fuel effiecient and usually better performance then a gasoline engine of the same displacement.

That Powerstroke, well if the product is fluid and has some sort of flashpoint that beast will swallow it and burn it.

Answer 3

once I drove truck for a living i attempted bio-diesel, yet, the subject with it replaced into that it decreased my mileage, and it has a lot of problems in chilly climate. the subject with electric, is that in case you have a superb end electric vehicle, it takes approximately ten hours to charge it, then you definitely purely get approximately 250 miles on the charge (in case you're fortunate). So, any form of mid to long distance holiday could be out of the question. i be attentive to that this could in all probability generate thumbs down from human beings through fact i'm not making a music the praises of "selection" fuels, yet i'm talking form my actual international adventure.