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And in the parts of Germany, which are close to NL and B, too. Up to 40 km distance from the border, you can say.
LPG is liquid gas, as Antoine said, you can mount it in nearly all petrol-cars.
The other, new version are engines with natural gas. Here you need special engines. These are quite rare, I remember, that the Fiat Multipla and the Opel Zafira are available with natural gas-engines. In Germany it was supported by the government with tax-lowerings.
It's a question for every single person, if a LPG-engine is senseful or not. The price per liter is much cheaper than Diesel, but outside of NL and B not everywhere available. And you must add the costs of the changing (and in Germany to need a technical permission of the TÜV, too).
As I've heard from my Dutch friends of the K 70-Club (yes, some in NL have LPG, too), the using of LPG costs 10% of the power and the consumption is 10% more than with petrol. And the engine runs a bit hotter.
And the LPG-tank needs space. Nowadays you mount in in the space of the spare-wheel, in the past you had you trunk full with this ugly big tank.
An anecdote at last: in 1996 I travelled illegally with a Dutch friend to the NSU-meeting in Southern Britain. Illegally, because at that time it was not allowed to use The Tunnel-train with LPG-cars (at some ferries it was forbidden, too, also in parking-garages). But we had hidden the two big LPG-tanks with our clothes.
This was the second illegal thing: this totally rotten K 70 had two big LPG-tanks in the trunk. Loaded with 52 liters of fuel and 100 liters of LPG we had entered the United Kingdom...
LPG is liquid gas, as Antoine said, you can mount it in nearly all petrol-cars.
The other, new version are engines with natural gas. Here you need special engines. These are quite rare, I remember, that the Fiat Multipla and the Opel Zafira are available with natural gas-engines. In Germany it was supported by the government with tax-lowerings.
It's a question for every single person, if a LPG-engine is senseful or not. The price per liter is much cheaper than Diesel, but outside of NL and B not everywhere available. And you must add the costs of the changing (and in Germany to need a technical permission of the TÜV, too).
As I've heard from my Dutch friends of the K 70-Club (yes, some in NL have LPG, too), the using of LPG costs 10% of the power and the consumption is 10% more than with petrol. And the engine runs a bit hotter.
And the LPG-tank needs space. Nowadays you mount in in the space of the spare-wheel, in the past you had you trunk full with this ugly big tank.
An anecdote at last: in 1996 I travelled illegally with a Dutch friend to the NSU-meeting in Southern Britain. Illegally, because at that time it was not allowed to use The Tunnel-train with LPG-cars (at some ferries it was forbidden, too, also in parking-garages). But we had hidden the two big LPG-tanks with our clothes.
This was the second illegal thing: this totally rotten K 70 had two big LPG-tanks in the trunk. Loaded with 52 liters of fuel and 100 liters of LPG we had entered the United Kingdom...