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What is the difference between biodiesel and SVO?

if you're used to filling up your car with standard gasoline, the difference between biodiesel and straight vegetable oil (SVO, but it also has other names) might be a clear as mud. Here's a cheat sheet. Important Point #1: SVO: is pure vegetable oil, just like what you use to cook with. Biodiesel is plant fat or animal oil that has alcohol (usually methanol) added to it and glycerine removed through a process called transesterification. and, now, Important Point #2: To use SVO in a vehicle requires converting the diesel engine. ... Read more →

You can do it, too: Convert a Toyota 4runner to diesel, then to veggie oil Sebastian Blanco

Interested in a Toyota 4Runner but wish it had a diesel powerplant? In the U.S., your engine options are limited to a 4 liter V6 or a 4.7 liter V8 (and you don't get the V8 in all states). But, if ...

Biofuels and road taxes, the Alaska edition Sebastian Blanco

In many places around the world, roads are financed at least in part by a tax added to the price of fuel. When we head to the pumps, we pay for a little bit of the road we drive out onto as we leave ...

Veggie Girls - six college students cross the country on vegetable oil Sebastian Blanco

Six female college students from schools across the country who call themselves the Veggie Girls decided that high gas prices and carbon emissions were old school. The new thing is finding out "just ...

Across Australia on 40% water and 60% waste mineral oil (Bios Fuel H2W+) Sebastian Blanco

The 20th World Solar Challenge took place in Australia in October. One of the more unusual fuel types in the Greenfleet Class of the Darwin to Adelaide race was used by a "Troupy," a lightly modified ...

National VegOil Board gets a test of straight veggie oil emissions, puts out video blog 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The National VegOil Board (NVOB) has got some new updates for people in the VegOil (or WVO, or SVO, of whatever you want to call it) community. First, NVOB has got the results of a new emissions test conducted at an EPA-certified lab. Comparing Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) with pure canola oil ...

Lesson #4: Choose your WVO conversion mechanic carefully 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last August, AutoblogGreen feature writer Ray Holan wrote about his adventure in converting a BMW 3 series from the mid-'80s to run on VegOil. In his introduction, he posted four lessons he learned about the process, and lesson #4 (choose your mechanic carefully) is something that Blogging New ...

National VegOil Board profiles owner of Albuquerque Alternative Energy 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As I've said before and as was certainly evident at the Alt Car Expo this past weekend, people who fill up their cars using homemade biodiesel or VegOil (also known as SVO or WVO) are the most passionate of alternative fuel advocates. The new National VegOil Board is also passionate about sharing ...

VegOil? WVO? VVO? SVO? What do you call the stuff you put in your grease car? 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The National VegOil Board, as you might remember from yesterday, has got a new status for their group (official non-profit) and is setting out to broaden understanding and discussion of using vegetable oil for transportation. The trouble is that the oil has different names depending on the source of ...

National VegOil Board (NVOB) now a non-profit in CA 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

As of November 3rd, the National VegOil Board (NVOB) is a non-profit operating in California. Ethanol and biodiesel have their national boards and coalitions, so why not vegetable oil (for transportation)? The group's mission is to, "provide education about and support for VegOil as a fuel; to ...


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