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VegieCars
About
VegieCars
VegieCars
is an independent Australian-owned enterprise
operated by Marcus Deuchar and Christina Reeves,
committed to providing affordable and high-quality
products to people wishing to convert their vehicles
to run on straight waste vegetable oil.
VegieCars
grew organically out of a desire to share information
with others that could help them out in some way.
Friends and acquaintances were interested in what
we were doing and wanted to know more and more.
This
began taking up much of our time that our family
and house renovating could not afford, which then
led to the development of the first edition of
the booklet, now in it's third incarnation. The
Booklet was developed primarily as a means of
freeing up our time from repetitively talking
to people many of who we had never met before.
The
booklet became so popular that it naturally led
to people then wanting to be able to buy the parts
to do a conversion and find some oil, so VegieCars
was born. After nearly a year of research and
development, our first range of products hit the
market and we haven't looked back since!
This
is the beginning of what we hope to be a very
rewarding and successful enterprise. We have many
ideas of where the business can travel especially
with substantial capital investment.
We
believe that running your car on vegetable oil
is an ecologically sensible solution to running
a vehicle, allowing us to use up the embodied
energy in the existing diesel vehicle fleet in
a carbon positive manner.
Customer Service
At VegieCars an important element of our personal
philosophy is a striving to develop a business
which provides exceptional customer service in
order to achieve peak levels of performance and
give us an edge over our competition.
In
this technologically advanced world where we are
interacting less and less with people face to
face, we feel a growing need to work even harder
at developing a continuous improvement in customer
service culture. We recognise the need to build
customer confidence in order to promote the VegieCars
brand and we hope to use your feedback as a measurement
of our strivings and as motivation for improvement.
Marcus
believes that there is no such thing as a customer
complaint, only constructive criticism, and aims
to have happy customers who are willing participants
in the growth of VegieCars. We value your feedback
to enable us to grow our business in accordance
with customer needs. Please take the time to offer
your comments on any aspect of our business.
We
strive hard to provide exceptional customer service
and would prefer that if you experience any dissatisfaction
that you tell us about it first before telling
the rest of the world! Please give us the opportunity
to resolve any discontentment and improve our
dealings with our customers. We look forward to
hearing all of your comments including constructive
criticism as this gives us the opportunity to
improve the quality of our service to you.
Check
out our eBay feedback.
Become a VegieCars Agent
Our
customers are an important part of our growing
business. We recognise that word of mouth is one
of the most productive and successful ways of
advertising a product such as the VegieCars range
of products.
It
often takes someone who has already converted
successfully to convince others to do the same.
We need your help to spread the word on VegieCars
by talking about us to everyone you know who is
interested.
To
reward your efforts we offer a rebate or product
discount scheme to our existing customers both
for sales, and referrals leading to sales. This
allows you to be an agent without any capital
outlay.
We
are happy for you to take this offer as far as
you like. Why not consider booking a stall at
your local ‘Sustainability/ Healthy Living/Farming
Expo, or putting some brochures up around your
local area in relevant places? We will support
your endeavors by providing brochures with your
reference so that any sale that comes our way
via your reference will result in a reward for
your initiative.
To talk to us more about this offer, please contact
marcus@VegieCars.com
(Credit:
Vegie Cars)
Vegetable
Oil Fuel
The use of Vegetable Oil Fuel is carbon positive,
this means that more carbon is locked up into
the soil from growing the oil seed plant than
released into the atmosphere by burning the oil
produced from it. While the exhaust releases greenhouse
gasses not that much different to petroleum fuels,
the carbon being released was only captured from
the atmosphere by the oil seed plant in the last
couple of years. By using Vegetable Oil as fuel,
you are taking part in the carbon cycle, reducing
the carbon in the atmosphere rather than releasing
more carbon from ancient deposits.
Vegetable
Oil as Fuel won't save the world, but it is a
step in the right direction allowing us to use
the embodied energy in our existing diesel vehicle
fleet while we wait for the next generation of
truly sustainable vehicles to come along, which
are likely to run on hydrogen produced from solar
power.
By
using Waste Vegetable Oil, we are not tying up
valuable farming land to grow fuel crops. The
Oil has already been used for it's intended purpose
when it was grown as a food, and has used up it's
embodied energy, which is the energy that was
taken to grow it in the first place. By collecting
your fuel locally from your favorite take-a-way,
you are not wasting the energy of mass transportation
that is contained in conventional fuels.
It is a great feeling driving down the road, knowing
that you're having a positive impact on the environmental
situation.
The
diesel engine was originally designed by Rudolf
Diesel to run on vegetable oil, and later came
to be run on mineral fuels. He thought that this
engine could assist farmers to be more self sustaining,
and not have to rely on outside inputs for their
mechanisation. Today most farm vehicles have a
diesel motor, which many farmers could be operating
from resources grown on their own farm!
Today's
diesel vehicles are not designed to operate on
straight vegetable oil without modification to
the vehicle. Many people modify the oil into a
thinner fuel called fatty acid methyl esters otherwise
known as Biodiesel, which requires a chemical
reaction in a processing plant and the use of
about 20% Methanol which is produced from fossil
fuels.
Unlike
Biodiesel, Vegetable Oil Fuel doesn't require
any fossil fuels or chemicals for its production
and is essentially a waste product of the food
industry. Vegetable Oil as fuel doesn't attract
a fuel excise in Australia, making it a much cheaper
option for those considering the backyard production
of Biodiesel which will work out to be at least
60 cents per litre more expensive due to the fuel
excise and the costs of chemical inputs.
The
cost of converting your diesel engine is likely
to be significantly less than establishing a decent
biodiesel plant. A conversion will often pay itself
off in one service period. Check out this cost
comparsion.
Every pub has a fryer and every town has a pub!
Waste
Vegetable oil is available from just about any
fish and chip shop, takeaway, café, restaurant,
or canteen - often with such a high quality that
you can pour it directly into your fuel tank and
drive away!
Vegiecars is currently undertaking a trial delivering
quality Waste Vegetable Oil to a fuel tank installed
at your home and investigating establishing a
refuelling depot in your locality.
If
successful, we will be able to deliver fuel to
your home or local depot for around half the price
of diesel fuel to most cities and regional towns
in Australia. If you are interested in having
VegieFuel delivered to your location, please contact
us Marcus@VegieCars.com with an expression of
interest. (Credit:
Vegie Cars).
Contact
Details
Email
convert@vegiecars.com
Address 3 Waratah Avenue
Belgrave Vic 3160
Australia
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