nissan leaf again

[Andy Burns]

PLEASE HAVE FUNCTIONING EYES!

[Andy Burns]

Get a few hours exercise while you wait to creep home ...

[John Rumm]

and a big rubber sucker on the front, so you can nudge the car in front and have it pull you...

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

for brian reay's information ... THAT WAS A JOKE .......TEE HEE

[FMurtz]

[Cursitor Doom]

Some outstanding ingenuity in all these replies. You're all a credit to the community. :-D

[Chris Hogg]

Many years ago, there was a chap from Devon, Tamar Valley way IIRC, who rigged up a van to run on methane made from chicken shit in some sort of home-made digester. He compressed the gas into cylinders in the back of the van and drove to London. I think it was at the time of the oil crisis, three-day week, miner's strike, Grocer Heath PM etc, so 1973/74-ish. It certainly made headlines in the media at the time.

[harry]

Some can. Mitsubishi make one but it'sa PIHEV

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

ideal for fat boy brian reay ......

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

outlandish and doesn't count .....

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

f*ck the smart arses ....I want something that works ...

[Marland]

Also in Devon but at Halwill Junction my Dad?s friend had run his Ford consul like that at the time of the Suez crisis and for while after using the effluent from his piggery. He had been in the Royal Engineers during WW2 and was fairly good with machinery and making things and would have been familiar with wood gas powered vehicles which utilised the gas producer on a trailer such as this bus.

By the time I knew him the car had reverted to petrol but he still had the parts hung up in his workshop.

GH

[Andrew]

I've got an old curly kettle lead that you can have ...

[Andrew]

There used to be a fleet of city rental cars in a city in France that ran on compressed air.

[Andrew]

Or just tailgate one of the many HGVs trundling along the motorways to benefit from their slipstream.

[Andrew]

even better if it is provided for 'free' by 'motability'.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Some 30 years ago, a workmate commuted Brighton to London with his diesel car fuelled by old deep frier oil. His son was catering manager for a largish organisation, who actually paid him to collect it. He had a filter plant set up at home. But this was an old diesel - modern ones with electronics everywhere might not be so forgiving.

[Max Demian]

Did it smell of fish and chips?

[samchunk]

They work fine.

[T i m]

Or for more flexibility, 'MagnaPoon'. ;-)

(One of the few books I've read and enjoyed).

Cheers, T i m