Is converting back and forth from one fuel to another practical and or cost effective?
It seems like it would be because when one fuel is way up anotther fuel is way down.
Seems like it would pay for itself?
Natural Gas, and propane, only make sense in large displacement engines operating in stop and go city driving. The savings evaporate when cruising down a highway
My wife worked for a utility that had NG flex vehicles. She drove one all day, every day. They were Dakota pick ups, because they needed somewhere to put the huge NG tank. We have a huge hill, (3 miles?), in our town and she would have to switch over to gasoline to go up it. The vehicle had no power on NG. Also it had no range. I forget those details, but you had to keep switching back to gasoline when you ran out of NG.
They have since gotten rid of all those vehicles. The fueling station gathers dust. EPIC FAIL!
Natural gas has been used in cars for years.One can still obtain conversion kits.
I remember cars in the 50’s having them.
My next truck will be a multi fuel, gas or diesel with a natural gas option. Probably diesel because then I can blend in filtered oils from home or brew my my own biofuel, and diesels love to run on natural gas.
They say it would cost $5k for a home refilling station, well in Alaska we don’t have tax or insurance restrictions and our natural gas is cheap, not saying it can or cannot be done but I would look into the possibility of making my own compressor station, cannot be too far different than a scuba tank station.
I have tons of compressors at work and being a fabricator I can only research what is involved in getting the much higher pressures needed and compressing a volatile gas.
Of course millions will whine its too expensive, too slow, restricts their distance.
But that doesn’t worry me one bit, let them cry, I for one posses a pioneer spirit and will surge ahead while they whine themselves to death.