Alternative automobile fuel - types of motor fuel that provide the power of an automobile engine and exclude the use of petroleum-based fuels (such as gasoline and diesel fuel) completely or to a certain extent (including those intended as additives to petroleum fuels) - when engine power technology not exclusively associated with petroleum products. In a broader sense, it is a fuel different from traditional petroleum fuels (gasoline or diesel); and also applies to any engine power technology that does not use gasoline exclusively (for example, an electric car, a hybrid electric car powered by solar energy). Due to a combination of factors such as environmental problems with the extraction and use of petroleum products, high oil prices and the potential for oil depletion, the development of cleaner alternative fuels and advanced vehicle power systems has become a priority for many governments and vehicle manufacturers throughout all over the world. Alternative motor vehicles include: electric vehicles , hybrid electric vehicles , vehicles with a flexible fuel selection ( Flex-fuel vehicle), compressed natural gas vehicles, solar electric vehicles, biodiesel vehicles and hydrogen cars . In the same category you can include experimental and rare ground vehicles. such as a steam car or a car powered by a compact nuclear reactor.
Calculations show that about 30% of the total fuel demand can be replaced by biofuels without affecting the reduction in food production. [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Ethanol mixed with gasoline
- ↑ Koonin SE, Science, 2006, 311, 435
See also
- Natural Gas Vehicle
- Oil as fuel
- Fuel granules
- Atomic plane
- Nuclear carrier