Actually Paul,
Honda already sells the Accord with a  unit packed in the trunk. You get a plumber to attach it to your natural (or propane) gas line and hang it on the wall in your garage. You connect the hose to your tank, and fuel the car overnight.
It on sale right now. Economical or not. Wacko or not. It's coming. Bet on it.
Marc Wiese

What happens if you run out of gas away from home or you want to go on trip
that requires more than one tank of gas? Sounds like all the disadvantages
of the electric car.

A reformulator is an entirely different animal. IMHO it makes hydrogen out of natural gas
using electricity. Then you must compress the gas so you have range. So you pay twice.
Is that the kind of reformater you are talking about? What do you do with the 
carbon by product? Or is it carbon monoxide? :) Where is the gain? 

Or is it just merely  using electricity to compress natural gas and you run the car 
on natural gas? Where is the gain? 

There is a wacko market and apparently wacko's will pay anything and put up
with severe disadvantages if it fits their agenda. Anything but gasoline.
If you ask me IMHO these are all publicity stunts to convince the wackos
that Honda and Toyota are doing something for the environment. Makes you
feel kind of good buying Honda and Toyota even if you don't buy one of 
their wacko cars.

What is the matter with turbo compounding to raise the basic engine efficiency 
from 30% to 35%? That is a solid improvement in MPG  with no increase in weight and
no loss of the trunk. Why don't the wacko's seize on that?

Paul
 
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