Other than Petroleum, what other fuel can be used in a car?

Answer 1

If the car was designed to run on gasoline, the only other fuels that you can put in the tank and expect it to run are butanol and coal-based synthetic gasoline. You can often use vegetable oil based fuels in production diesel engines.

If you're designing the car from scratch or making a lot of modifications to it, you can build one that will run on virtually anything that will burn, whether it's solid, liquid, or a gas. And electric cars can be "fueled" by other things. Here's a partial list of non-propane-based fuels that have been used as fuel in various cars over the years:

Coal
Wood chips
Propane
Compressed natural gas
Ethanol
Methanol
Hydrogen
Vegetable oil
Solar power

Answer 2

If the engine has the proper modifications, or was created to run on in the first place a car can run on:

Diesel (vegetable oil as it was designed to run on by Dr, Diesel, and bio-diesel too)

Gasoline, E85 (85% Ethanol and 15% gasoline) Alcohol (Methane, like Indy cars and some classes of dragsters) Nitro-Methane If you are nuts and have deep pockets.

You can also use Natural gases: LPG- Liquid Petroleum gas which is natural gas under so much pressure that it turns to a liquid, Propane-similar to LPG.

There is talk about using Hydrogen but not in your lifetime.

If you have a turbine engine from a helicopter you can run it on vodka. Or anything else that will readily burn.

The cleanest is Electricity. Plug it into your solar panels and drive. The range is limited but when we are honest about how much we drive it is short distances for the most part with some longer treks once in a while.

Answer 3

Anything that burns and that leaves the field wide open. Alcohols, but they tend to wash oil off the cylinder walls especially if a cylinder stops firing. Methanol (wood alcohol), ethanol (grain alcohol), propanol (rubbing alcohol, probably the best choice of the alcohols). Compressed or liquified gases starting with hydrogen and going through methane, ethane, propane, butane and liquified natural gas. Finally, wood gas. This is usually made in an onboard gasifier and was popular in some countries during the second world war when they had nothing else. It's a mix of methane, carbon monoxide and wood distillates. A purer form of this was illuminating gas or "town gas" that was used about a hundred years ago--a manufactured mix of methane and carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide burns and you just have to accept it as part of the process. This was manufactured from high temperature steam and coal.

Answer 4

E 85 If the car can handle it check the fuel door, auto book or auto maker.

Answer 5

you can use propane, alcohol, electricity, and hydrogen. This does not apply to all cars. Some different cars have the capability to run on one or more of the above energy sources.

Answer 6

Ethanol.

Answer 7

Ethanol or E85.

Answer 8

you can make your own... just like moonshine just no sugar.