Methane-powered Beetle to Hit UK Streets

August 5, 2010 at 1:10 pm

I like this part: “The process of conversion isn’t brand new, but this will be the first automobile fully converted to run on biogas in the United Kingdom without any loss of performance.”

Amplify’d from www.engadget.com
The Bio-Bug is a regular old 2 liter VW convertible modified to operate on both gasoline and compressed methane gas: once the methane runs out, the car reverts back to running on gasoline. The cars run on so little methane that just one regular sized sewage plant could run a car (or cars) over 95,000,000 miles per year.Read more at www.engadget.com