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    Alternative fuels

    Aug 14, 2020 3 minutes
    By Greg Price

    In Readers’ Writes in New Zealand Classic Car Issue No. 356, Ian Verrall of Waihi asked why the compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) networks were allowed to fail. He wondered if the same thing might happen to electric vehicles (EVs), and suggested I check it out.

    Actually, I hadn’t given it a lot of thought before now as I never seriously considered alternative fuels for any of my cars beyond producing a couple of concept drawings for my Zephyr — appropriately enough — ‘convertible’. I have

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