Still, the supply chains for diesel, ethanol and hydrogen are immature.
The brand will eventually sell trucks fueled by diesel, ethanol and other alternative fuels, he said.
Sainsbury's has also carried out trials with electric vehicles and looked at technologies including synthetic diesel, ethanol and dimethyl ether (DME), a fuel produced from a by-product of the timber industry, he says.
You should know whether your car needs diesel, ethanol or gasoline.
Steve Heckeroth of the American Solar Energy Society says that electric cars cost roughly two cents per mile versus gas, bio-diesel, ethanol vehicles, which cost 20 to 30 cents per mile.
High gas prices, the war in Iraq and concerns about global warming are fueling interest in cars and trucks with alternative powertrains, like gasoline-electric hybrids, clean diesels, ethanol and farther in the future, fuel cells that run on hydrogen.
Carmakers already produce passenger vehicles that run nicely on diesel fuel, ethanol or hydrogen.
The adaptability of the reformer to multiple fuels, including diesel, gasoline, ethanol, and methanol was experimentally studied at different operating conditions.
Syngas refers either to the mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen, the kind of mixture needed for ammonia production, or carbon monoxide/hydrogen (CO H2) mixtures, the building blocks for the production of methanol, hydrocarbons, synthetic gasoline and diesel, or ethanol.
Vince Muniga, a spokesman for Chrysler powertrain operations, said in a telephone interview that Chrysler "is looking at a lot of alternative fuels, including compressed natural gas, diesel and ethanol," but did not say that future Chryslers would run on ZeaChem-produced biofuels.
Since the world has far more natural gas left than oil much of it outside the Middle East making fuel in this way would greatly increase the world's remaining supplies of oil.So, too, would blending petrol or diesel with ethanol and biodiesel made from agricultural crops, or with fuel made from Canada's "tar sands" or America's shale oil.
