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Manila Police to use WVO from McDonalds 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Police in Manila, the capitol city of the Philippines, have taken up a cool new effort in order to save some green, though they will be spreading some green in the process. It seems that the Police force will be converting its cruisers to run on a mixture of waste vegetable oil (WVO) and diesel ...

Craigslist Find of the Day: '67 Mercury Cougar with Mercedes diesel engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for high-res shots of this diesel 1967 Mercury Cougar Much of the vegetable oil and biodiesel movement centers around the classic Mercedes-Benz inline six cylinder engine, but fine examples of the genre are getting tougher to find. As is always the case with older machines, time ...

Video: Veggie oil explained easy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Gavin Shappiro sent us a very well edited video of a green hobby: driving a 2005 Volkswagen Golf TDI with vegetable oil. As most of our readers know, converting a diesel car to run on vegetable oil is not a difficult thing to do, and virtually any diesel car can run with it. Gavin's friend Chase ...

NorthStar Moving powers their fleet with biodiesel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

California's NorthStar Moving Corporation has just converted all of its trucks to run on biodiesel fuel. All of the fuel used by the moving and storage company will now be veggie-based. Additionally, their fleet of vehicles has also been fitted with battery-powered rear lift gates as opposed to ...

The top five upcoming green events, number two: Green Grand Prix 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the 2007 Green Grand Prix entries. The fact that the Green Grand Prix makes an appearance on our list should not come as a shocker. Where else are you gonna see pod-racers (like in the picture above) racing alongside vehicles running on biodiesel, electrons, LP, CNG, hybrids, flex-fuel ...

Green Grand Prix coming to New York next week with a wood-burning SUV 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the 2007 Green Grand Prix entries. Here's a race we'd like to watch. The fourth annual Green Grand Prix is coming to Watkins Glen in upstate New York in a week and a half (May 3rd). While there are some podracer-like entries (e.g., the photo above), the bulk of the vehicles are ...

Spaniards will be able to trade old veggie oil for biodiesel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Association of Municipalities and Counties of Catalonia, Spain (ACM), has announced an agreement with Recicloil, a company that recycles used vegetable oil into biodiesel. The agreement states that the company will provide one liter of free biodiesel to citizens for each 20 liters of used oil ...

The latest solution to the hydrogen problem: biodiesel? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This is weird. One of the easiest arguments to make against hydrogen fuel cells is that you have one too many energy conversions going on (first, you need energy to make the hydrogen, then you use the hydrogen to make electricity onboard the vehicle). Why not just use the initial energy - usually ...

Keene State College an EPA award finalist with waste oil project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

AutoblogGreen reader Mike C wrote a comment recently about the waste-oil-to-fuel work that's going on at his school, Keene State College. I read that and thought this story deserved mention here on the main page. Whenever students are doing something clever and green, I like to share their stories ...

Instructable of the day: converting an old school bus to veggie-power 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you are reading our site, you are probably already familiar with the fact that any diesel vehicle can run on biodiesel. As a matter of fact, most any can diesel vehicle can even run on used vegetable oil with just a few modifications. There are some issues with vegetable oil which must first be ...

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