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ReptileMan • yesterday at 7:15 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Where I live aftermarket modified LPG cars are extremely common. We don't have explosions often.


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ceejayoz • yesterday at 7:28 PM

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-roadster-thrust-system...

> You can think of the COPV like the fuel tank in a compressed natural gas (CNG)- or liquid propane gas (LPG)-powered vehicle, except the nitrogen mixture in the COPV is stored at a much higher pressure, up to 10,000 psi, similar to the pressures in modern hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.

LPG cars have somewhere between 100 and 300 psi.

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lifestyleguru • yesterday at 7:52 PM

Tank pressures are of different magnitudes. With LPG it's only for storage, here it's for thrust.