Many years ago I had a contract working for the local utility, DP&L, the electric company. We converted about 30 of their service vehicles, at the time mostly rear wheel drive V-6 Chevy malibu's to propane. The fuel was essentially free to the utility as a byproduct. The engines did really well. very clean when changing oil and so forth as mentioned. They put over 100K on all the cars and I can't recall anything out of the ordinary working on them. They didn't have the range of a tank of gasoline with the tanks they used. But they filled up every night. Took about a day to do the conversion, fairly easy. Probably had about 90% of the performance of a gasoline version.
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