Create a FREE flash websiteShell announces new nitrogen-enhanced gasoline
Shell announce a major change to its gasoline products.
(Credit: Shell)Starting today, all Shell gas stations will be pumping a new fuel: Shell's nitrogen-enhanced gasoline.
Before you start speculating about the wonder fuel of tomorrow, understand that this nitrogen-enriched gasoline differs from the gas Shell was pumping yesterday in its engine-cleaning detergents and additives.
Shell claims that its nitrogen-enriched gasoline cleans better than before and protects better against engine buildup. Of note, all three grades of gasoline will contain the nitrogen-enriched detergents, with its V-Power premium grade containing five times the government-mandated amount. The results are fewer intake deposits, cleaner combustion chambers, and less fuel injector fouling and intake valve sticking.
Citing the rising complexity of new direct-injected and hybridized engines, Shell also claims that this new fuel is better suited to the rigors of modern drive trains.
Considering that detergents and additives are federally mandated in the United States, and just about every brand of gasoline being pumped today makes some mention of the power of their detergents, we don't see Shell's gas as being very revolutionary. We're also inclined to believe that the "nitrogen enhanced" title is more of a gimmick than anything else. However, any step toward cleaner, better-running engines is a good one in our book.
Shell stated that it didn't expect this new nitrogen-enhanced gasoline to result in an increase in fuel price. But with gas prices being set by individual stations and changing daily, that will be nearly impossible to measure.
@streamline35...the Shells in Seattle area usually match the competitors if they are side by side AND using my Shell card I get 5% back which makes them cheaper... 2.099*.05= $.105 off
Sounds like a marketing scam to sell mor fuel just by using it........................
We already know reformulated fuels lower fuel economy and make your car run like crap too, there is no performance in detergents or additives, give us clean unadulterated fuel. The cars will love it and the fuel mileage will increase too. More BTU's = More effecient fuel economy per gallon
complex chemistry. So that you would have to be a chemical engineer or work fore the company as a chemical engineer.
so dont knock it if you haven't used it for at least a year.
I also would go as far to say your driving styles over the years also netted you most of your mileage gains not the gasoline.
If any one manufacturer could assure that kind of gains they woud be the only gasoline left on the market.
I just wont fall for the Nitrogen scams....... Just like tires will perform any better on nitrogen either..... Come on man think, to increase the level of nitrogen in a fuel 2% wont have any bearing that is noticible on much of anything.... let alone clean valves on an engine. Nitrogen is a buzz word. People forget that it is 78% of the air that we breathe, burn in our cars and run in tires..... adding more isnt the key.
Ever notice how the exhaust pipe of a fine tuned car or race car has a nice sooty ash grey and how most of the cars on the road today have a greasy black exhaust....... Nothing clean in those exhaust systems! Computer controls run them so rich they cant perform just so the engines dont burn up. If they really monitored the air fuel mixture so accurately there should be no reason for a black tail pipe. Engines run 30 -40 degrees hotter now than they did 25 years ago in hopes of burning up the crap and its not working. More fuel does not mean more fuel effeciency, you can make it use less fuel but as long as the air fuel ratio is 14.5:1 its running fat and lazy. get it to 12:1 and its going to perform better and do it cleaner too. We all would get better results if we installed recalibrated or new 02 sensors and have the computers in our cars tweeked for performance nit set from the factory for simple stupid.....
AS for engine running hotter that makes sense does it not? dirty combustion byproducts are directly proportional to incomplete combustion, increasing heat means faster reactions means more complete combustion and thus less dirt out your tailpipe.
(some, Please correct me if i am wrong about all this, but from my education this is what i make of this)
As a automotive mechanic I have noticed that even the additives can cause their own gunk and residue so the nitrogen could be something that has good cleaning properties but leaves less residue? Just a guess.
My advice is to use what you owners manual states is required and if you do here pinging from too low of octane be sure to start with the next gasoline octane step. It maybe all you need.
You cannot get more power by using higher octane if your engine was designed for 87 octane. Computer management will only allow so much adjustment and its not enough to help HP or MPG.
This is the opposite with engines that require or recommend higher octane because their computers are allowed to adjust for lower octane but with reduced power. This protects the engine from severe knock which can really damage a engine. As I always tell people, if you want power buy it in the first place when you buy your car. Don't think you can do it later without spending some bucks!
so their "SOAP" has a few more nitrogen atoms, so what? there's as much difference between your hand soap and shampoo.
anyone who says they see an immediate difference is just the type of idiot they are marketing to.
it took a long time to build up deposits, they dont just disappear overnight..
and what are these supposed deposit from? i've been working on engines for 30 years and i have never seen them in any of my engines, and i use cheap gas and oil+stp only. yes i have had every part of different engines completely apart! those valves, or those heads and pans look like something they pulled out the wrecking yard from a baffed 60's car that someone never changed the oil in their life and the valve guides are gone. then it sat in the open in the mud with the valve cap off.
beware of snake-oil salesmen, look up stuff with the ftc and do your research.
the best scams sound good and may even have a touch of truth, but not the whole truth. it's called a lie of ommission.
and the commercial about winning on a fill-up is fin retarded. what's that about? different cars, different size tanks, who had what left in the first place? they are throwing it in your face!
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by pb972
October 15, 2009 11:02 PM PDT
- I drive a 2005 Subaru Legacy Turbo. The engine is very temperamental concerning fuel. When using low grade mixed fuels at private stations or at Wawa for example, the exhaust emits a bad odor. Moreover, the fuel mileage is terrible (there is nothing wrong with the cats by the way the dealers have tested them several times). I'm particular so I did my own test. I tried all the major brands of fuel for at least 3 weeks. I filled up with the same brand during the period (BP, Sunoco, Exxon), Citgo/Getty forget it, it is garbage. Anyway, SHELL V-POWER w/ NITROGEN gives me 3 more miles per gallon, NO odor and the engine performs flawless. ALTHOUGH, Shell is more expensive, IT ABSOLUTELY is the best engineered fuel. So all of you who think your saving money on fuel at Smith's gas station, you're really not saving money, your vehicle is burning more fuel. This is a fact, trust me.
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