Archive for 'Biodiesel Engine' Category
Die Moto - Biodiesel Motorcycle from The Crucible
21 May 2007The Crucible, an Oakland, California based non-profit educational community, has built a motorcycle. Called Die Moto, the bike has a custom built steel frame with a BMW swingarm and possibly the fork, too, though that isn’t stated along with a custom designed aluminum fairing.
The engine, from a BMW 320D diesel powered car, is a 4 [...]
Biodiesel Chevy Impala From Pimp My Ride
18 April 2007The MTV television show, “Pimp My Ride,” will take a 1965 Chevy Impala and transform it into a biodiesel hot rod in honor of Earth Day. The car will receive an engine transplant and get an 800 horsepower version of the popular Duramax diesel engine, usually found in Chevy and GMC trucks.
Press release follows:
In celebration [...]
Biodiesel Supercar - Jay Leno’s EcoJet
31 October 2006Jay Leno, besides being a show business celebrity, is widely known for some incredible machines in his “Big Dog Garage.” He has high performance cars and motorcycles, beautiful vintage machinery and the financial resources to build or restore most anything that strikes his fancy. His celebrity status can hold the attention of many who might [...]
Earthrace Biodiesel Powered Trimaran
26 October 2006If you’re going to promote biodiesel, why not do it with something sexy? No, not a Hollywood starlet, how about a 78 foot trimaran with twin 540 horsepower Cummins Mercruiser diesels with a maximum speed of 45 knots and a 3000 nautical mile range? Sounds pretty good in my book.
The Earthrace trimaran was designed to [...]
Biodiesel Approved Arctic Cat ATV
25 October 2006Arctic Cat has been working on a diesel powered ATV for some time now and recently began production of the new model. The 686cc twin cylinder diesel engine powering the 4 wheeler is not only approved to use biodiesel of up to a B20 mix but its use is actually promoted by Arctic Cat with [...]
Biodiesel Motorcycle for sale
28 January 2006If you want to put biodiesel to work for yourself right now, try this. There’s a biodiesel Royal Enfied motorcycle for sale on ebay. MotorEarth imported the bike last year for use as a demo to show the practical side of biodiesel fuel. They have run the motorcycle on both biodiesel and straight vegetable oil [...]
Biodiesel Lola racing at LeMans
22 December 2005London based D1 Oils will sponsor a Lola B2K in the 2006 LeMans 24 hour race. The car will be running an engine which is a modified version of the Volkswagen Touareg’s V10 and it will be fueled with a biodiesel blend still being tested to find the best race formulation.
Although the car will be [...]
Biodiesel dragster
30 October 2005Just to make sure you know we like to look at biodiesel from all angles, we wanted to show you the Cummins Biodiesel Dragster. It’s probably easier to let them tell you about it:
This dragster is powered by a twin turbo, 24 valve, P7100 mechanical fuel pump, 5.9 liter Cummins Diesel engine. Same basic [...]
