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Old 10-01-2007, 05:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Liquefied Petroleum Gas Smart Cars

A company called Smart lpg located in London sells new and used Smart cars converted to run on LPG fuel.

There are some 4 million vehicles in Europe fuelled by (LPG) liquefied petroleum gas.

Some 140,000 of these are on roads in Great Britain, they have 1400 re-fuelling stations in the country. Check out their video. CLICK HERE They claim the infrastructure is in place to make a smart liquefied petroleum gas car a realistic choice for many.


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Old 10-26-2007, 03:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Hmm that is very interesting
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question is, where is the LPG tank? don't they take up like twice as much space?
I drove an LPG Peugeot 605 in Ireland, it kept the gas tank as the car I think started on gas the swtiched to LPG???
also, should you not find an LPG station you can run on gas. Is this true with the LPG SMART?
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Don't all cars run on liquified petroleum?
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question is, where is the LPG tank? don't they take up like twice as much space?
I drove an LPG Peugeot 605 in Ireland, it kept the gas tank as the car I think started on gas the swtiched to LPG???
also, should you not find an LPG station you can run on gas. Is this true with the LPG SMART?
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Go to the third link (Click here) in the original post & watch the CNN u-tube video. It pretty much explains thw whole thing & shows where the tanks are.
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Don't all cars run on liquified petroleum?
They're talking about propane.
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They're talking about propane.
..Stu...did you missed the on that post?...

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They're talking about propane.
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LPG filling stations are widely available in many EU countries. It's too bad we are not adopting this dual fuel vehicles in the US at the same rate other countries do.
Make Utah the exception to that, they have a good network of CNG stations.
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The U.S,-ified Morgan Plus Eights didn't seem to do all that well on LPG (propane).
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