Renewable and Synthetic Fuels Tried by Volkswagen

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:14:01 +0000

Volkswagen and Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s top agriculture processors and a principal in biofuels, have arranged to work toward fostering the growth and usage of biodiesel in the auto industry. This is a noteworthy step ahead for biofuels for the size of the companies involved. ADM’s key interest in this developing market, and VW’s respectable and developing use of advanced diesel engines in its product line.

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.

Source: Yahoo!

Volkswagen Passat Variant TSI EcoFuel

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:07:38 +0000

A lot of car manufactures in Europe are developing cars that are running on Compressed Natural Gas. Now the German manufacture Volkswagen also joined this group of manufactures. At the Genève Motor Show in 2008, they showed the Passat TSI EcoFuel.

Below the Volkswagen Passat Variant TSI EcoFuel on stage. It has a 148 hp engine that runs on gasoline and compressed natural gas. The gasoline tank is just there as reserve tank. We hope Volkswagen will produce more vehicles running on Alternative Fuels.

Here some nice images about the Volkswagen Passat Variant TSI EcoFuel:

Cars on natural gas » Volkswagen

Renewable and Synthetic Fuels Tried by Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passat Variant TSI EcoFuel