Will Cars Run On All Varieties Of Fuel In the Future?

As we develop ourselves technologically, we
come up with newer possibilities and endless options. Most of the technological
advancements are directed to make our lives simpler and easier. However, not
all inventions prove to be as useful as you would expect them to be. Scientists
and researchers may come up with a product that can be simply fascinating, but
of very little use for you.

Unless and until a product helps in meeting
a genuine requirement, it has very little chances of proving to be popular or
useful.

Let us look into automobiles and see if
this holds true for cars as well. There was a time when people would not have
believed that a car may run on more than one type of fuel. If it was petrol,
then petrol it had to be. You simply could not dream of running it on something
else without damaging the engine.

Hybrids
and fuel types

Well, times have changed. Today you get
hybrid cars that run on either diesel or petrol, and CNG or LPG. I owned a
Honda a few years back which I could fill up with both CNG and petrol. However,
I really didn’t find it useful. It just offered me the
option to go for CNG in case I didn’t want to buy petrol.

At the same time, technology has not yet
evolved to let you use both petrol and diesel in the same car. This will simply
not work. Most of us are probably aware of what may happen in case you fill up
a petrol car with diesel or vice versa. For those who do not know about the
outcome, let me tell you that the wrong fuel may damage your car’s fuel system
severely, resulting in high repairing costs and lower performance and power.

When you pour diesel in a petrol car or
vice versa, the fuel lines get contaminated. The fuel filter may get blocked
and the pistons may need to be replaced completely to get things back in shape.
Click here to learn more
about what you need to do when you land in such trouble.

Future
hybrid models

If you ask me, I don’t think hybrids are
really going to be that popular. Moreover, even the future hybrids are not
likely to offer you the option of using both diesel and petrol to drive the
same car. Diesel and petrol engines are constructed very differently, owing to
the difference in the characteristics of the two fuels.

I feel that due to the scarcity of fossil
fuels and the rise in fuel costs, cars will become more fuel efficient. Car
manufacturers may offer us a wider choice of fuels to run our cars on.
Renewable energy sources may also come in the picture. We already have cars
that run on solar power. However, at present they are too costly for the
general public. The maintenance costs are also higher than expected.