Alternative Fueled Vehicles (AFV): Our Collective Name

I feel a little silly. Not too long ago I wrote a post about how many different ways people are changing their vehicles to use a widening variety of alternative fuels. There are hydrogen cars, electric power cars, and biofuel cars at the very highest level.

But there are also the straight hybrid variations of each gasoline/ electric and diesel/biodiesel for example. If you really want to get dizzy, here’s a little chart of the next level:

There are so many different ways people are going with their individual conversions that I proposed a couple of names for the “collective” netiher of which I was in love with, and neither of which received any comments from you.

I’m a little surprised someone didn’t take the opportunity to point out to me that a perfectly good name already exists and has been used for years. The government refers to our little corner of the vehicle world as Alternative Fueled Vehicles or AFVs for short. Works for me.

They have also been tracking the growth of the market for these vehicles as well. There’s a lot of mathematical modeling going on as they were only able to actually count fleet vehicles, but you can download this chart showing how many of those fleet AFVs there were in 2005. (Sorry, that’s the latest year I found. If you know of one more recent, please share).

As an added bonus the chart is broken down by state, so you can get a pretty good idea of which states are truly promoting the alternative fuel movement.

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