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Originally Posted by robbo1959
It's the world's first heavy truck powered entirely by LPG and it was unveiled at the Inter-national Truck and Trailer show in Melbourne.
The 2656 FPC envirotech uses patented technolgy to re-engineer a Mercedes-Benz Actros 12 litre V6 diesel prime mover to run on 100% per cent LPG.
They state more power,quieter running and up to a 10% per cent reduction in fleet operating costs.
They don't say if they can do one for people like us,but it would be great if that's the way you would like to go.
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Have you actually read it? It was the scaryist thing I have ever read.
Basically they convert the diesel engine to a petrol engine (install sparkplug etc etc) and then convert to LPG. Hundreds of man hours re-engineering the engine (bye bye warranty to the point where they have to supply their own warranty for the whole vehicle)
They get a "upto 10% saving" by supplying ALL of the LPG you use AND taking over all the maintance of the vehicles.
All the dieselgas companies quote a "upto a 20% saving". Gas Tek Global quote a minimum of 10%. They don't take over your maintance departments and they don't lock you into buying fuel off them. Why the hell would anyone sign their soul away?
To quote Sir Robin the Brave "Run away. Run away"
Thorne