According to AsiaOne – Motoring news reports that National Environmental Agency confirm that Scantruck Engineering in Singapore had finally made their first petrol and natural gas Bi-Fuel conversion here!!
The cost of conversion requires you to purchase the gas kit that can be retrofitted in almost all petrol engine cars. i.e. regulator and mixer package (in the region of $2,498 parts and labour inclusive) to a top-of-the-line sequential injection with ECU combination. The choice is yours. The investment “can” be recovered in slightly over a year.
According to Singapore Power “The natural gas contracts are pegged to fuel oil prices. Hence the prices of natural gas will also change accordingly when there is a change in fuel oil prices.”
Does this make any sense at all to convert from one fossil fuel to another finite fossil fuel that is also depleting in our neighboring countries and rising in prices TOGETHER with OIL PRICES?
In fact this is not the first attempt to use Natural Gas to power a car!! I had found another Straits Times News article on the 8th May 2006 that a 200 year old German trading company C Melchers GmbH will retrofit cars at $2000 with a kit from Argentina to run on (CNG) Compress Natural Gas. (See Scanned picture below)
So is this another PR News?? there is only one refilling station which is located in Jurong Island. 3 more on the main island will be up and running by this year end as planned by NEA.
“So, existing car owners, wait no further. Let’s go green, go Bi-Fuel!” (Faint!)
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