*News*
Veggie
Power is expanding to provide new services and products in
sustainable energy technology - click
here to read more.
We are now working
with Portsmouth City Council and Southern Water to recycle
waste vegetable oil. Thanks to all those who signed the
petition!
Convert your Car for Ecology and
Economy
DIY KIT
Custom Installation
Run your car on Vegetable Oil and help reduce
Co2 emissions - cut running costs to you and help the environment.
Veggiepower
provides easy to install conversion kits- or we can do the
conversion for you. Ever imagined running your car legally and free
on oil from your local chip shop or restaurant? It's perfectly
possible.
There's nothing new about running vehicles on
veggie oil. It is well tested and proven to be an excellent
fuel.
Rudolph Diesel ran Diesel
engines (compression Ignition engines) on peanut oil as long ago as
the 1890s.
The German company Elsbett has been re-
examining the use of vegetable oil as a fuel, since the
1980s.
Veggiepower has
driven nearly 50.000 miles on WVO(Waste Vegetable Oil ), SVO
(Straight Vegetable Oil) and PPO (Pure Plant oil).
This includes two 3,000 mile test drives to
Southern Spain and back. And, yes, we got there and back, problem
free and cheaply!
How did Veggiepower
get started?
Fired by a passion for the planet and ecology,
we put in years of research and converted our first car to run on
Locally produced and/or Waste Vegetable Oil in 2005.
Since then we have been supplying DIY kits,
and promoting Veggiepower at events and festivals all over the
country. We use a twin tank system because we believe this is more
reliable and more cost effective way forward for DIY
fitting.
Our conversion kits have also been tried and
tested and found to be working beautifully at Bath
University.
Who's running on Veggie
Oil already?
Well, Veggiepower,
of course! plus......
EX formula one World champion, Jodi Shecter,
(now ,an organic farmer) grows rapeseed oil to fuel his £100 000+
converted tractor. X England
goalkeeper David James (now Portsmouths goalkeeper
.......
Along with
press coverage of alternative fuels, Veggiepower has featured frequently in the
media and on TV .
We have also lobbied the Government, as
members of the United Kingdom Pure Plant Oil
Association (UKPPOA) and, in July last year, the Tax payable
on vegetable oil as a Road fuel was removed, for consumption of less
than 2,500 litres per year. (HM Revenues Link)
This means it is now possible for you to run
your vehicle TOTALLY legally and FREE on Waste Vegetable Oil if you
recycle vegetable oil from restaurants /chip shops. Alternatively,
you can either bulk buy oil for home delivery or shop at the
supermarket.
Meanwhile, more and more farmers are growing,
pressing, and selling oil direct, so as this eco-solution becomes
more popular, there may well be a supplier close to you.
Veggiepower
Sustainable
Energy Technologies
If you would like to have an event
powered by sustainable Energy buy Sustainable
Technologies or learn how to make your
own.
Veggiepower offers :
Bicycle
generators to power your event kits and courses. Including PA systems For Live Music and Cinema.
Solar panels to power your event, kits and
courses Including PA systems for Live Music
and Cinema.
Wind generators to power
your event, kits and courses. Including PA Systems for Live Music and
Cinema.
Bicycle smoothie maker at your event, kits and
courses.
Waste Vegetable oil Petition
Its
time to stop pouring waste oil into landfill and down the drain.This
waste problem could be made into a resource.The UK produces over
200,000 tons of waste cooking oil per year
Waste oil can be
filtered and used directly as a fuel without the need for extra
energy in processing. Although it will only provide a small
percentage of the countries fuel needs it will also save on landfill
and make waste water treatment less costly.
Click here to sign the Petition