Re: aptera 150 miles per charge

The VW turbo diesel gets about 70 miles to the gallon.  My kid has one that was sold in Canada but not in the US because US fuel was too dirty (too much sulphur).  Very high pressure injectors.  There is a bio conversion that uses a separate tank etc. so start and run out can be done on regular fuel.  These fuel tanks are heated with engine heat.

Then there is a mechanic friend who works on city buses.  He says that bio fuel gums up the parts requiring excessive cleaning, and they wear out sooner because the sulphur in the regular diesel acts as a lubricant.  Go figure.

And the Dodge Cummins engine doesn't like the diesel fuel made from tar sands. - I'm sure all these things are being fixed as we speak.

I read about a car built before WW2 that had a two cycle gas/kerosene engine that ran at a constant 900 rpm to drive a generator which fed the battery and electric motor and got 75 miles per gallon.  Ottawa Citizen article sometime within the past few weeks.  Heavy vehicle,  top speed 30

And we have been running our chain saw on gas/Crisco.  Don't know if the oil mixes properly but smells good.