can the 1-liter car use biodiesel ???

[Jacky Foo]

The most economical car in the world
http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/gw/vw1litre.htm

A few years ago, Volkswagen took on a task that many people thought
was impossible: they decided to develop a fuel-efficient, road-going
compact car that could achieve an average fuel consumption of just 3
litres per 100 km (94 mpg). Not only did Volkswagen achieve this
milestone in 1999, but they had an even larger goal in mind: an ultra
fuel-efficient car with a super stingy fuel consumption rating of just
1 litre per 100 kilometres (282 mpg).

After three years of development in secret, the 1-Litre-Car was
unveiled in April in Hamburg, Germany at Volkswagen's annual
stockholders meeting.

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comment:
Do you think such a car can use biodiesel from CTT ?

regards
jacky

[CA...@aol.com]

Jacky, without knowing anymore about the engine than what is in the accompanying article from Canada, I would guess that it would be able to use biodiesel just fine. It probably could also use straight vegetable oil or fish oil as a diesel substitute as well.

 

It is amazing what the VW engineers did with this vehicle and shows what can be done with an unlimited budget. I don't know if I mentioned it here before but we worked with the local high school shop class to build a super high mileage car ourselves.  We achieved 1525 MPG our first attempt in an Indiana sponsored event published online. The next year we exceeded 2400 MPG. The judges estimated that we were achieving over 3000 MPG last year when our inexperienced driver crashed the car during the test run. We used a 3hp lawn mower engine to power the vehicle.  It can be done. (we are the South Spencer County car shown as winner in 2004 below)

 

Official Results of the 2004 IMSTEA Super Mileage Challenge

 

Stock Class

 

Pos.     No.                  School                                     MPG

 

1          87        South Spencer High School                1525.62

2          12        Mater Dei High School                       1211.94

3          46        South Dearborn High School              752.26

4          59        Wawasee High School                        711.43

5          6          Greenfield Central High School         707.21

6          32        Mishawaka High School                     506.65

7          52        Lafayette Jefferson High School        407.37

8          65        Chesterton High School                      366.97

9          20        Terre Haute South Vigo H. S.                        356.97

 

Neal Van Milligen

Kentucky Enrichment Inc

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[Jacky Foo]

On 26/06/07, CA...@aol.com <CA...@aol.com> wrote:
> ......we worked with the local high school shop class to build a super high

> mileage car ourselves. We achieved 1525 MPG our first attempt in an Indiana
> sponsored event published online. The next year we exceeded 2400 MPG. The
> judges estimated that we were achieving over 3000 MPG last year when our
> inexperienced driver crashed the car during the test run.

the VW an ultra fuel-efficient car is doing 1 litre per 100 kilometres
(282 mpg).

Yours sounds much better. Could we get a picture of the car from the
school project.

regards
jacky