Hello world!
The full tank test on my Vauxhall Combo 1.7ltr Diesel Van is complete!
WOO HOO!
Unfortunately my video camera is playing up for some unknown reason and I can’t get the footage from it to make a video. However I will get round to fixing that and I will have the video of me breaking down and running out of fuel and my final distance reading. But for now I have a picture of my dials showing you my empty tank and the amount of miles I went on it.
So before I fitted my fuel cell I was getting around 380 miles to tank which is roughly 35mpg which in a van with a full load isn’t to bad. After fitting my fuel cell I did an initial test around town to get a glimpse of the improvement and I jumped up to 48MPG – an improvement of 13mpg or 143 per tank. That was tested by driving around town for a couple hours and the filling back up.
But I wanted a true reading of how much fuel I was actually saving.
So what I did was fill the entire tank with fuel until I could see it gurgling up and almost coming out – it took 50 litres of diesel. I then drove normally – without emptying my van of rubbish or changing anything – until my tank was completely empty, I mean bone dry! I had a fuel can with me when it started to get into the red so when I did break down I would be prepared. This took almost three weeks! I went on a couple motorway drives totaling around 150 miles and the rest was mainly around town driving to and from work etc.
What was the final reading?
I did 540.0 miles on ONE TANK OF FUEL.
540 miles of driving normally, up hills, down hills, stopping and starting at traffic lights etc. That’s a lot of driving!
So lets do the math:
1 Imperial gallon = 4.54609188 litres
50 litres / 4.54609188 =10.9984579 gallons per tank
540 miles per tank / 10.9984579 = 49.0977922 miles per gallon
In dash display showing final full tank test reading
49.1 miles per gallon! 49.1 MPG!
HOW GOOD IS THAT!
35mpg is what I used to get and now I get 49.1mpg!
It’s official, I couldn’t go any further on that tank of fuel and I couldn’t go any less – I BROKE DOWN, I COMPLETELY RAN OUT OF FUEL TO GET THAT READING.
I’m sure it’s not good for the engine to do that but never mind as I now get 49.1 mpg!
That’s a huge saving on both my money and my fuel – and it all came from one little container of water in my engine bay – amazing!
So how far is 540 miles? Lets use a practical example of how far that actually is:
It takes 533 miles to go from Paignton in the south west of England (where I live) to DUNDEE IN SCOTLAND
It is 533 miles from Paignton to Dundee
That means that I can go literally from one end of the country to another on ONE TANK OF FUEL!
(If you don’t know what Easyjet is then it’s a low price airline here in the UK)
I say literally because that is just the distance, this doesn’t take into account the probability of getting into lots and lots of traffic and probably going over the speed limit both of which will waste fuel. But it’s good just as an idea of how far 540 miles actually is!
So there you have it – 540 miles on one tank of fuel with my HHO fuel cell running. I am very happy with the results!
This post will be updated with a video once I get my camera sorted out – so keep watch!
If you want to build your own Hydrogen Fuel Cell so you can get better gas mileage by using water as fuel then check out my website:
http://www.ecohho.com
Thanks for reading!
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