Grease Cars
Why grease cars?
Grease cars are essentially diesel engine vehicles which have been modified to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO) or straight vegetable oil (SVO). For our purposes, we call it "grease".
These vehicles have unique properties that we feel are important to promote:
- Diesel engines are more efficient
- Diesel fuel itself has about 30% more energy per gallon than gasoline. Diesel takes less energy to produce from the original oil it comes from than gasoline. The current crop of diesel vehicles is extremely efficient and are approaching gasoline vehicles in emissions standards.
Grease
This is vegetable oil that has been used for cooking. It is a waste product and typically has been disposed of by restaurants. When filtered properly and run in a vehicle that is adapted to run grease, the result is a fuel that contains about 90% of the energy of straight diesel fuel. Grease contains more energy per gallon than gasoline. The emissions generated from burning grease are more environmentally friendly than diesel fuel. Grease is usually free from the restaurants who use it, although the growing popularity of grease conversion kits and use of grease for biodiesel production has increased demand for waste grease worldwide.
Greener – more earth friendly
We’re burning a waste product – the grease has already been used for one purpose and now it is now serving a second purpose – filling up our cars. Using the grease from restaurants is also solving a disposal problem for them, this is recycling at its best. The grease burns with lower emissions of greenhouse gases than diesel fuel. And… the exhaust smells like french fries!
