Wed Aug 27, 11:47 AM ET

ATHENS (AFP) - A group of Britons on Wednesday completed a 3,750-kilometre (2,330-mile) 'Grease to Greece' expedition in cars powered by vegetable oil in a bid to raise awareness about conserving fuel, organisers said.

Some of the nine cars were converted to run on purified vegetable oil while others had standard engines using biodiesel that was brewed overnight in a 'fuel pod' stored in a lorry accompanying the expedition.

Instead of filling up at petrol stations, the expedition's 'frybrid' cars ran on used frying oil donated by restaurants and cafes along the route.

"A lot of people don't realise that biodiesel, when made properly, will run in any diesel engine," noted expedition leader Andy Pag, 34, a webcasting specialist and trained engineer, who says he got the idea in a road trip from London to Capetown with his wife three years ago.

"We wanted to see if it's possible to do something with biofuels," he said.

"We had a lot of breakdowns (en route) but we managed to fix everything."

Setting off from London on August 16, the expedition crossed France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and arrived in Athens on August 27.

On one occasion when the team was pulled over by German traffic police, their press cuttings proved more valuable than passports, noted Peg, who last year led an expedition to Timbuktu on a truck powered by chocolate soya oil.

His next project involves circumnavigating the globe with cars running on cooking oil and a small aircraft using an aviation fuel made from plastic bags.

"It's quite geeky, essentially it's like taking the molecules apart and building a new jigsaw with them to create fuel molecules," he told AFP.

 

i think people might be freaked out the "lot of breakdowns " factor. h:

 

is usually caused by not purging the vegetable oil from the fuel system correctly.

this is part of why we suggest people running our kits not run on biodiesel as a purge fuel because it is veg oil purging veg oil which does no good in the end.

I could on and on about this but I have to say that is a cool article and good to see the WVO and SVO getting some press like this on a global scale.

 

awesome sauce
hope it keeps growing and gaining more support

 

Woha... John.. you're working for the company in your sig?

 

Yep

www.dinofuelalternatives.com

 

I was behind one that I don't think did it correctly. It fucking REEKED.

The only time a Motorcycle FTL

 

:ninja:



I'm under the impression it's only compatible with diesel engines? Is this still true or are they starting to convert non-diesel as well?

Smells like french fries from what I've experienced.

:shrug:

Not a horrible smell.

 

What about this?
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/28/alt...0528fuels.html

 

Gas engines run at much lower compression rate so it needs a more volatile fuel.

BTW vegetable oil run through diesel engines is carbon neutral for all those tree hugging hippies who are going to say diesels are the debbil...so I do more for the environment in one day than a fleet of Prius' will do in ten lifetimes.