I now live in Iowa, the center of the Grain Belt.  Because I am aware of the insanity of petroleum-based agriculture, and the untenable dependence our American transportation infrastructure has on oil, I am planning on starting a Iowa Idea Initiative website, with an intitial focus on implementing the farming of hemp here in the Midwest.
This is my first time visiting LincVolt, but I understand your concept utilizes biodiesel.  My idea of promoting hemp-farming, as a source of sensible energy, plays right into your hand.
It is high time(no pun intended) that our legislators get reasonable on the subject of the prohibition of agricultural hemp.  I intend on helping to change the status quo.

Ideas are fine... But only real solutions matter ... and only when they can be put to practical use by...ordinary people. catman Ps...good luck with that.

Excellent work Mr. Young.

I can shed some insight into how to implement some of the ideas which have been voted into the "most popular of all time" list.

1.  Pretty much any (modern) internal combustion engine can burn gasoline, ethanol, or methanol w/ equal ease.

2.  Your hydroxylized fuels (i.e. -OH) will typically need to also have the fuel lines and certain gaskets replaced to either stainless steel or a synthetic material which will not dry out.  Petro fuels are more viscous.

3.  The air-fuel mixture can be adjusted by simply hacking the firmware of the vehicle.  This can be done by a bipass chip or (preferably) by simply replacing the ROM w/ a customized version of your own.  

4.  In many modern vehicles this can be achieved w/ an iOS or Android app and the one of the many aftermarket adapters for vehicle diagnostic testing.  In short...it's a way to turn the loss of control which the computerization of vehicles has made difficult to address.

5.  This solution could be extended to virtually every (mainstream) automobile on the road produced after the year 2000 or so with few exceptions for less than $400/ each on average.

6.  Methanol (wood alcohol) is the liquid fuel of democracy.  It can be easily and safely produced anywhere in the world by recycling ANY ORGANIC WASTE MATERIAL.  There is no need to wait for a magical enzyme to get fuel from switchgrass or hope that we can genetically engineer s better strain of algae for biodiesel.  This is ready RIGHT NOW.

7.  Nobel Prize winner George Olah strongly advocated a METHANOL based economy all the way through the '90's.  Ethanol is an environmental and commodities market disaster waiting to happen.

8.  The GFE (Gallon Fuel Equivalency) of Methanol is is 2:1 to gasoline...however each molecule of ethanol contains only 1 carbon atom instead of the 8 carbon atoms in one molecule of octane.  Hence...carbon emissions are 4 TIMES LOWER THAN GASOLINE ON A MILE-FOR-MILE BASIS.

9.  I can make this technology readily available to every man, woman, and child on the planet, but lack the resources to do so. 

However...if you would like to team up, please contact me.  I do not want money or funding.  I would prefer to simply be an employee for a non-profit organization of which you (Mr. Young) are in control of.  I only need about $35,000 per year salary for my family and I to survive.  

In short, this is not an attempt solicit funds....it's an attempt to keep homo sapiens from going extinct.  A wise man once told me "Tick-tock/The writing on the wall/No wonder we're losing time"

If you are serious and would consider such a thing, please contact me as soon as possible before we go bomb the piss out of the rest of the Middle East on behalf of our corporate overlords.

Dear Mr. Young,

     A while back while working at an old car restoration shop on a twin of your Lincvolt I saw an article about your car.  As a car "nut" and collector it  gave me hope of being able to drive my car into the future.
     I figure the trunk of my 65 ford galaxie should be approximately the same size as Lincvolt .
     As always thanks for thinking outside the box.

                            Sincerely,

                            Mike

 

Hello Mr. Young,

Had a secondary (aka "rechargeable") battery for your LincVolt. Here are the specs:

8 Volts
373 Ah
2.987 kWh
99.17Wh/Kg
30.12 Kg
$163/kWh
10.125" x 7.000" x 9.750" 

Contact:

SolarMan350
solarman350@gmail.com

There is a huge worldwide sub culture of VW Bus fanatics that would be prime candidates for a power alternative.  I have an '87 watercooled Vanagon Westfalia that is smaller than LV1 but sleeps two comfortably. The big downside is the thirsty flat 4 that hits about 20 mpg because it is heavy and somewhat underpowered.  There are many Suburu and reved up repowers, but none to my knowledge that address the poor milage.  Any ideas on how to tackle this low profile flat 4 configuration with LV conversion?

running vehicles by batteries nowadays are welcome by most economic countries both for emission free as well as cost effective.
i suggest to run all the vehicles from a small cycle to big car and truck should run on mini sized batteries like li-in, li-mhd, and they should be charged by some other fuel mechanism voltage (pulsating dc)generation. so that the vehicle should go for a long distance for an economic amount of fuel. but includes hybrid power that we are going to change once in an year or two. i want to make petrol pumped voltage generator in miniature size to charge the batteries which is used to run cycles, motor bikes, small trucks,car, van etc.it may be useful to keep our earth green.

I will use my truck to test out a theory for a boat. We will mount a Plastic 2 Fuel converter machine to my LincVolted F-250 pickup and do an American road trip to talk about the advent of new technology for transport and waste management.
Kind like the back to the future car that ran on garbage.
Once we have the details worked out we will mount the system on our boat and go out to clean up plastic waste on the oceans using our high tech process.
Everybody wins!

Just wondering, what if you used a 66 Dodge Dart for a platform? It was a smaller vehicle yet still pretty stout. The 225 cid slant 6 is a great engine! One could re-engineer the motor - adapt it to multi fuel & combine it with electric. The body is fairly aero-dynamic and kinda ugly in it's own cool way!

For you Lincoln lovers here is a rare find!!  There were only 34 of these produced in 1960.  It is a 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark V Executive factory limo.  It has factory power steering, power brakes, power self lube, power windows, power dividing privacy window, front and rear radio, power antennea, front and rear air conditioning.  The rear seat and surroundings are suede, the front is leather.  This was the highest priced vehicle that Lincoln/Continental made in 1960.  The convertible listed for $7,056 where as the factory executive limo listed for $10,230 nearly 1-1/2 times more than the convertible.  It is complete with factory skirts and wheel discs.  This car has the factory 315 hp engine, car is complete, all the glass is good.  It has some lower rust on the bottom of the very rear drivers side quarter where the stainless goes and again at the front of the hood on passenger side.  Car is black, used to have a black vinyl top.  The front seats and door panels and dash is black, steering wheel is black and white and the rear compartment is light gray suede which is in good shape.  There is a tear in the front seat as you can see by the pic.

/on  ebay..There was one of these in a museum here where I live for a while.I believe it was elvis's first limo.It sold at auction..a few years ago..This would be a cool trunner up to your convertible..ebay item..#33055643997 a 60 Licoln limo the listing says there were only 34 of these made from the factory..it would be a cool rock and roll star car also..thanks..