In recent years, domestic oil prices have been running at a high level, especially some time ago, oil prices once again opened the "only up but not down" mode, so that many car owners complained, but also made many small partners who are ready to buy fuel vehicles discouraged, can only choose the current seems to be more cost-effective new energy vehicles. However, many years ago, there was also a very cost-effective way, that is, to change from oil to gas, by installing a set of natural gas storage devices in the fuel vehicle, by burning natural gas to propel the vehicle, compared to refueling, refueling is indeed more cost-effective. However, why is it that the "oil-to-gas" vehicles have become fewer and fewer in most areas, or even completely disappeared? Is there no longer an advantage in saving money?
First of all, the question of whether to save money from oil to gas is the most important thing to look at the number of kilometers driven, why do you say so? Don't you save money if you drive fewer kilometers? You must know that even when the oil-to-gas conversion is more popular, most of the people who choose to change from oil-to-gas are some friends who usually have more mileage and use cars more frequently, such as taxi drivers. Because the cost of oil-to-gas conversion is not low, thousands of dollars, even if you can save two or three cents per kilometer after oil-to-gas, but if you only run a few thousand kilometers a year, and only a few hundred kilometers a month, the cost recovery cycle of light modification will be a long time.
Secondly, after the vehicle oil is changed to gas, for ordinary family cars, the calorific value of natural gas is higher than that of gasoline, which will lead to the aging of some related parts on the accelerated vehicle and reduce the service life, such as spark plugs, ignition coils, etc., will be affected by the oil to gas, and the ignition angle of the vehicle will lag behind after the oil to gas, and the power of the vehicle will also be affected. For family cars, the trunk always carries a large gas tank, which also takes up a lot of loading space, and in case of a rear-end collision, it will undoubtedly increase the risk of accidents.
And to put it bluntly, many models that can support oil-to-gas conversion before are mostly low-end models, that is, relatively small displacement naturally aspirated models with less electrification participation and relatively primitive as a whole. After these models are converted from oil to gas, in addition to the power will become weaker, there is little change in other aspects, but now, as car manufacturers have more pursuit of power, fuel consumption, silence and other dimensions of automobile products, so in the process of developing and producing engine and other components, they will pursue the ultimate more, and the result of the pursuit of the ultimate is often that the components are more precise.
Therefore, in terms of oil products, the requirements will be relatively high, and some models, even if they are also added with gasoline, the oil quality is slightly poor, and the indicator light of abnormal emissions in the car will light up. That is to say, although the technology of new car engines is becoming more and more advanced, it is also becoming more and more "hypocritical".
In addition, when the oil to gas was more popular, there were relatively few gas stations, so friends who had the experience of oil to gas must have hated the matter of gas refueling, and sometimes the queue could even line up for several miles. Therefore, ordinary families still choose to change oil to gas basically no more, and now they are still using oil to gas, most of them are some northern areas of taxis and other operating vehicles, because they run more mileage, a day can run hundreds of kilometers, two or three months can save the cost of modification by saving oil money, and the later operating costs can also be reduced a lot of money every month, to put it bluntly, the money saved is not earned by themselves.
As for why it is said to be the northern region, because now it is like the southern region, even if it is a taxi online car-hailing, the vast majority of them have been replaced by new energy electric vehicles, only the northern region is still insisting on fuel vehicles because of the influence of temperature, plus some drivers who do not recognize new energy. In addition, the policy has no support for oil to gas, after all, there is a lack of domestic oil, but the reserves of natural gas are not abundant, and most of them rely on imports like oil, so the state will definitely not support a large number of oil to gas, and there may be insufficient natural gas at that time.
In addition, there is one of the most important reasons is that due to the rise of new energy electric vehicles to accelerate the disappearance of oil to gas, after all, electric vehicles are not only more environmentally friendly, but also more economical fuel costs, according to the data, electric vehicles only cost about 0.12 yuan per 5 kilometers, compared with the cost of oil to gas is lower.
In addition to the above-mentioned power decline, encroachment on loading space, and acceleration of the aging of vehicles, the last reason is that oil to gas will also affect the value retention rate of a vehicle, for example, after a private car is changed to gas, and then want to change the car, go to the second-hand car market to inquire, the value retention rate of the car must be much lower than before the change.
With the rapid development of technology and the changing automotive market, there may be more new energy and power methods in the future. For operating vehicles, it is not as practical as new energy. I don't know if you have ever had the experience of switching from oil to gas before? Feel free to leave a comment to discuss.