Utilization of LPG for Motor Vehicles and Its Problems

Abstract

Utilization of LPG for motor vehicles has long been accepted in America, but it is in recent years in Japan.To use LPG for motor vehicles has many more advantages than to use gasoline or heavy fuel oil, but there still remain some defects to overcome.
The author showing several ways of LPG use for moter vehicles and their merits and demerits, pointed out the problems to solve in future comparing those obtained in gasoline and diesel engines.
In Japan large diesel cars are well diffused which pay low cost of fuel, and so it is difficult that LPG may be sabstituted for that.However, LPG-powered engine produces less toxic exhanst and little exhanst of unburned hydrocarbon which induces smog From the viewpoint of the abatement of air pollution, LPG will have to be utilized for city bus, Truck, etc.