It’s much less expensive than regular refined gasoline, and they won’t let your car into a below ground shopping mall parking lot if you have this installation, but at least half a million cars and trucks in the USA have already been converted to run on liquefied propane gas, otherwise known as LPG. From an environmental standpoint, using bottled LPG gas in your car is also much cleaner, with virtually no emissions, as compared to even unleaded gasoline.
So what’s involved with doing this and, how much does it cost? It appears that If you are a backyard mechanic, you can have your car converted to run ion LP gas for a little as $150, including storage tank or bottle. Or, if not, you can take your wheels to any number of repair garages that specialize in this sort of thing, and get it done for a bit more One garage owner said that a person “can bring his car in early in the morning and pick it up afterwards in the late afternoon. For newer cars (1995 and upwards) a special kit is available that has high pressure hoses and gauges that send the liquefied bottled gas into the engine from a bottle or “balloon” located under the rear baggage compartment of the car (where most spare tires are today).
From a cost standpoint LP gas and LNG (liquefied natural gas) is about 40% cheaper than diesel fuel – and 20% cleaner.
Automobile manufacturers are beginning to jump on the LP gas “bandwagon” and Volkswagen already has a 1.6 liter “Bi-fuel” Golf model that will run either o f LP gas or gasoline. And Hyundai is coming out with a LP gas hybrid model this month that features both a 1.6L Liquefied Petroleum Injected (LPI) four cylinder engine assisted by a 15KW electric motor with a continuously variable transmission.
With auto manufacturers becoming more interested in offering LP gas options in their alternative fuel vehicle marketing “mix” it appears that more and more people are beginning to realize the benefits of the saying: “go cheaper (and cleaner) with gas”.
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