Editing AMC Gremlin (section)

=== Alternative fuels ===
Other experiments used AMC Gremlins. To evaluate non-[[petroleum]] fuel and measure mechanical wear under mostly short city driving, a 1970 Gremlin with AMC's {{convert|232|CID|L|1|abbr=on}} engine operated successfully on [[methanol]] for ten years and {{convert|46250|mi|km|0}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=Proceedings of the IV International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels Technology, volume 2 |year=1981 |publisher=Instituto de Pesquisas Technológicas do Estado de Sâo Paulo |page=655 }}</ref>

The broadest range of fuel tests were conducted by the [[United States Department of Energy]] (DOE) labs in [[Bartlesville, Oklahoma]]. Engineers estimated the performance and fuel economy of 1977 Gremlin Xs operating on ordinary [[gasoline]], a variety of wide boiling range fuels ([[naphtha]], [[kerosene]], etc.), as well as two alcohols, [[Ethanol fuel|ethanol]] and [[Methanol fuel|methanol]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Ruppenthal |first=Karl M. |title=Energy for transportation: its availability, its cost, and its conservation |year=1981 |publisher=Centre for Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia |page=91 |isbn=978-0-919804-26-5}}</ref>