Cars on natural gas » Golf http://www.carsonnaturalgas.com The greenest car blog on the net! Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= New Golf Plus BiFuel at Present Obtainable for Order In Germany http://www.carsonnaturalgas.com/2009/07/17/new-golf-plus-bifuel-at-present-obtainable-for-order-in-germany/ http://www.carsonnaturalgas.com/2009/07/17/new-golf-plus-bifuel-at-present-obtainable-for-order-in-germany/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:15:43 +0000 admin http://www.carsonnaturalgas.com/?p=157 The Golf Plus at present is also available with LPG alternative. This utilization of alternative fuel has led to a decrease of about 10% in CO2 expelling and fuel preservations of €6.10 per 100 kilometers. This is because of the cut down German fuel tax which will be vogue till 2018.

VW Golf Plus BiFuel
The new Golf Plus along with its bi-fuel system can also be operated on petrol at the flip of a switch. This results in decreased amount of consumption and emissions. The 1.6-litre, 4 cylinder engine with 72 kW / 98 PS calls for a mean of 9.8 liters of LPG per 100 kilometers (159 g/km CO2). The Golf Plus BiFuel becomes even more economical when burning petrol.
The installed plant for the new Golf Plus BiFuel is significantly more beneficial than a converter for a LPG.

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In Europe, Volkswagen has combined with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group to exhibit the feasibility of cars motorized by synthetic fuel obtained from natural gas. For the past 5 month period, 25 VW Golf hatchbacks power-driven by 100 horsepower TDI diesel engines were fuelled by this spotless-fiery gas-to-liquids fuel. The object was to prove this fuel’s discharge savings features. This is also claimed to be comparable to that of compressed natural gas but at lesser cost.

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