Sunday, January 13, 2013

Following a train of thought

In previous posts, I began discussing the possibilities of using ammonia to power an automobile.

Let's recap the posts on that subject, beginning with Greg Vezina's conversion of production vehicles to ammonia all the way up to the most recent one about using household ammonia.  ( in order of most recent to oldest )
  1. Running automobiles on household ammonia
  2. Dead Ends
  3. Updated interview of Aronsson
  4. Garland E. Harris Interviews Bob Aronsson
  5. Green Car Congress: ZAP and Apollo Demo On-Board A...
  6. Ammonia reforming
  7. Ammonia Powered Car ( update )
  8. Ammonia As A Fuel
  9. Bio-ammonia as a hydrogen source for fuel cells
This is not a complete list.  To find the posts, just click on the category label "Clean Green Driving Machines" at the bottom of this post.  Or cut and paste the titles of each post and plug it into the search this blog box at the top left corner of the home page--- just under the header on the sidebar.

The purpose of that little exercise was to consolidate my thinking up to this point.

The next step is to actually get a product that somebody could buy.  So, with that in mind, I went back to the Apollo website.  It said on the contact information something about OEM's 



So, I remembered something about Phoenix MotorCars.  They made the vehicle that Altair was putting their batteries into.  I had invested in Altair several years ago.  I followed that link to the vehicle manufacturer that makes these vehicles---SsangYong Actyon---  and brought up their website.   Their website could use a little improvement, by the way.

In order to see if they are a going concern, I followed the links provided to the news section.  They do appear to be a continuing concern, so that leads to the next question--- do they still make cars that can be converted to electric cars--- in particular, the Phoenix car?

They may have other ideas, according to the list of news items.  They may make their own electric vehicles.

I was thinking if Phoenix could use their vehicles, so could Apollo.

Or, you could convert the gas and diesel vehicle offerings to run on ammonia.  Then, you could have a conversion business.  That would be a way to sell to the public.

Update:

Evidently, Apollo will license the technology to car makers who will use Apollo's propulsion system.  In other words, you make the car and they make the propulsion system.


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