The Dark Wob

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:28 pm LPG dwindling is a deliberate action being carried out by Flogas, were there are independent suppliers eg Birmingham where most of the taxi fleet and Manchester converted car numbers are soaring. It's still a free option if you buy a new Dacia.

Unless you are a mad scientist type with access to solar to produce it and compress it hydrogen is never going to be a goer without a massive roll out of places to fill.

At the moment with 8 public filling stations there are more places to fill.a CNG car than there are hydrogen. The only one I've ever seen closed recently

A friend of mine has a range rover P38 4.6 V8. He managed to win himself a complete LPG kit, manifold,tank,wiring harness,ECU and everything for 40 quid. He is starting to find it harder to source fill ups and a 50 litre donut tank doesn't go far on a V8 range rover! Im pretty sure he's only just breaking double digits.

On a run our old one with a 3.5 carb fed V8 and 4 speed manual box used to do 18mpg on lpg. Even stop start short journeys it never dropped before 3 miles per litre and that was starting from cold on gas.

You can get a pump to fill from a bottle - tell him to look up LPGC simon

I'll pass that on,thanks.

And tell him to put a sensible size tank in the damn thing! I've got a 80l one in the Maverick and 2 in the van to give an actual fill of 150l ISH.
When it's back on the road I'll be swapping one of them in the van for the spare 140l one i have which should give 200+l capacity

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:45 pm And tell him to put a sensible size tank in the damn thing! I've got a 80l one in the Maverick and 2 in the van to give an actual fill of 150l ISH.
When it's back on the road I'll be swapping one of them in the van for the spare 140l one i have which should give 200+l capacity

It may be more,I'm not sure. It's a donut tank sat in spare wheel well.

BA have just done a big deal for synthetic aviation fuel, I think the aim is for 10% of the total fuel used by them to be this.

https://archive.is/FjOho 'Such a big risk' - The car dealership that won't buy electric vehicles, Newstalk, 29th February 2024

“The way things are with the electric market currently, it’s just so unsustainable with pricing,” she told The Hard Shoulder [radio programme].

“I did come out publicly to say, ‘Look, currently I won’t be taking trade-ins of EVs or buying them in - especially if they’re out of warranty.’

“The pricing at the moment is just like the stock exchange, you could buy one for €50,000 one week and the next put it up for €55,000 and then it’s worth €40,000.

“My small business couldn’t absorb such a big loss like that.”

(and if you're wondering who this car dealer is, see over here:
viewtopic.php?p=329490#p329490 )

If the price of EVs have dropped by as much as some of the media would want you to believe then I expect there'll be a bloodbath when leased ones are returned, as the value could be far less than originally envisaged.

"Thanks to company-owned electric cars entering the second-hand market, the past six months has seen the median price of used electric vehicles (EVs) drop by £10,000, according to new data from New AutoMotive.

Used hybrid vehicles have seen an equally dramatic decline of £9,000, it says.

With fleets operating around 475,000 electric cars, and 200,000 plug-in hybrids, most of which will be held for 2-4 years before being sold into the second-hand market, New Automotive claims that used prices could decline further as corporate leases come to an end."

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/electr ... sed-values

Someone I know in the IAM has company cars for work. He was forced to go electric a couple of years ago, but this time they are buying real cars again. So hopefully more and more people reject them & the whole crazy idea fails.