New VW Eco Up! member
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Hello from Finland. I've had my eco UP now for one year and it has been a great little car. I've done 23000km with average CNG consumption of 2.7kg/100km which is 0.2 under the spec 2.9kg (which just jumped to 3.8kg with the new WLTP standard.)
So far my only eco mods are VW Lupo 3L magnesium wheels with 145/80-14 ecopia tires for summer and same wheels with 165-14 MS tires for winter (still have 175-15 nokia hakka7 studs for real winter if need be) I'm not keen to make the car look like a magnet but a clean kamback would be nice. https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...2&d=1545371292 |
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Welcome, smurfbus!
Envious! I've admired the Up for years. Of course, it's not available in Canada/US., though it was discussed for Canada (we occasionally get forbidden fruit that the States didn't, eg. first generation Smart Fortwo, Nissan Micra, etc.). I'm a fan of the latest gen. Mirage. But in every review/comparison against the Up!, the VW won handily (primarily because its suspension was tuned for European tastes vs. the numb & extremely compliant Mirage, which was designed primarily for developing markets). How serious are you about doing a Kammback/tail? What type of driving do you regularly do? |
That's pretty cool.
How common is CNG there? |
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This Up on the other had is already pretty well thought of so the kammback sounds like a doable mod but my fabricator skills are ’none’ and I dont like it to look like I did it. Slight lowering would be nice but its not economical enough overrall. Maybe a Pan under the engine as it does not show out if it looks horrible. My commute is 50km per day and mostly out of rush hours so that helps my consumtion figures. |
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How do they make the bio gas into sellable fuel?
In the united states bio gas is almost always made and burned on site to fire a boiler at an industrial plant. In the United States the only place I have seen a meaningful number of CNG pumps is in Texas. With natural gas prices being low right now, CNG probably costs 2/3 to 3/4 the price of gasoline. If you had a home fill station, it would cost almost nothing to fill up. 11kg is a lot, I had to assume that a car would probably hold around 5 to no more than 8kg. When I was looking at CNG a few years ago the information was as hard to find as fill stations. |
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Nice to see a fellow up CNG driver :thumbup: Quote:
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I have long wanted to do that :rolleyes: I wouldn't get the 145 tyres approved on the car though Not sure about the wheels themselves either How did it alter the gas consumption ? Handling on 145s ? |
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You can also get CO2 out of it for use in the beverage industry, and fertiliser that doesn't "breath" CO2 or methane into the atmosphere - home composting is not "green", it's actually as polluting as dumping ... Quote:
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