Foursprung: Car running on wood-gas

Looking at the fuel prices in Europe this might become a big idea. An old Yugo in Serbia running on real alternative energy.

Instead of pulling the car along with horses, somebody tapped into a different kind of 125-year-old technology and ended up with a car that’s faster than the original—which is not a tall order when you’re talking about a Yugo. That anachronistic-looking smokestack on the back of the car uses wood gas for fuel. The idea here is that wood doesn’t burn completely, and emits hydrogen and methane is a byproduct.

I'm not sure about the ecological impact, so it might be that this alternative does not really fit to the current emission rules...

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Source: Gizmodo

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