The Chip Fat Car website was created to provide info for drivers who, like me, want to reduce their carbon footprint. I travel a lot and drive a chip fat car, a waste vegetable oil-powered 1976 Mercedes W115, which I've had for the last ten years. If you're really interested, follow this link for a nerdy You Tube video all about the W115 (it's not mine by the way).

People like to sniff my emissions and they ask me questions on garage forecourts, in car parks and in lay bys, so part of the thinking behind this website is that it will save me repeating myself wherever I go. In time I also intend to list waste vegetable oil (WVO) and biodiesel outlets (and to retire to the sun on the advertising revenue generated).

I'm not a mechanic but I know that Mercedes W115s are robust and reliable. One just like mine is on display in the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart having covered 2,858,307 miles as a taxi in Greece (link to article). There are loads of them still around in West Africa where they operate as bush taxis. My chip fat car's only just run in at a hundred and sixteen thousand miles and I use it all the time.

Older Mercedes are particularly suited to running on WVO and most modern diesel cars will run on good quality biodiesel without modification, although you should always check with the manufacturer, especially if it's still under a conditional warranty.