Russians suffering from a fuel shortage are converting their cars to run on LPG

Russians are converting their cars to run on LPG due to the fuel shortage. The demand is now high, because, for example, a Moscow-based company doing conversion work can only meet a small part of the demand.

Ukraine’s attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure have caused a shortage of gasoline and diesel and increased fuel prices. In the street view, this can be seen as long queues of cars at gas stations.

There is enough LPG in Russia, and it is cheap compared to other fuels.

“We have a waiting list until September,” he says Guaranteed gas-corporate Egor Popov news agency for Reuters.

“We were getting 276 calls a day, but we could only handle about 30 or 40.”

In Russia, liquefied petroleum gas is already widely used as fuel for cars, both propane and butane. According to the World Liquid Gas Association, an industry advocacy organization, the country used about 3.5 million tons of it in cars in 2024.

According to another company doing conversion work, there are more inquiries than it can handle. The CEO of the company Sergei Medvedev according to LPG has several advantages.

“There’s no need to queue, and prices at gas stations are 50 percent or two-thirds cheaper than gasoline.”