2025-News

11/2025

50 Years of Mercedes W123 – 30 Years of ELSBETT Vegetable Oil Conversion Kits.(11/2025)

Fifty years ago, the Mercedes W123 began an automotive success story. These robust, reliable vehicles still stand for quality and durability – seen across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Australia.
Around 30 years ago, ELSBETT introduced an innovative idea: converting Mercedes diesel engines to run on vegetable oil – both new and used. Our ELSBETT vegetable oil conversion kits allow classic cars like the W123 to drive climate-neutral and cost-efficiently, without fossil diesel....

102025

30 Years of Workshop Training: Converting Diesel Engines to Vegetable Oil Fuel

Sustainable Mobility with Vegetable Oil – Over 30 Years of Global Success (10/2025)

For more than three decades, we have been pioneers in workshop training and hands-on courses for converting diesel engines to run on vegetable oil fuel.
What began in 1995 as a small training session in Denmark has grown into a global success story for sustainable engine conversions.

From the First Conversion to a Global Training Network

Following the first successful conversions in Europe, our vegetable oil conversion workshops soon expanded across Asia, North and South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand....

082025

We are closed from August 23rd to September 8th, 2025 (08/2025)

After a busy first half of the year, we are taking a well-deserved summer break. From August 23rd to September 8th, we will only be available via email to a limited extent. No conversion kits will be shipped during this time. The shipment of spare parts may be delayed. Therefore, we ask all customers to place their orders in a timely manner during the week before. We will then be available again as usual from September 8th.
Your ANC/ELSBETT Team

072025

Mahindra kits now online! (07/2025)

We've been in contact with Mahindra several times. In the late 1990s, we visited the assembly line in Werdau, Germany, where the CJ340 and CJ540 were assembled. In 2013, we visited the Mahindra production facility in ...

052025

1995-2025: 30 Years of Vegetable Oil Conversion Kits for Motor Vehicles (05/2025)

We have been offering conversion kits for diesel engines in motor vehicles worldwide for more than 30 years. Since then, several thousand vehicles have been converted to environmentally friendly vegetable oil operation by us, partner workshops, or our customers themselves. Even though electric mobility is ...

042025

Happy Easter (04/2025)

We wish all of our loyal customers a happy and peaceful Easter. For those who decide at short notice, there is free worldwide Easter shipping for orders over 500US$ until 21st April 2025. Simply select Easter shipping under shipping method.

Happy Easter!

022025

What will your boat run on next season? (02/2025)

Wintertime is repair time for "inland shipping". 30 years ago we equipped the first boats with vegetable oil engines for Lake Constance, among other places. These had already proven themselves in tough charter operations and proved their suitability for everyday use. Using vegetable oil as fuel also...

012025

Alternatives to the "dark lull" - combined heat and power plants powered by SVO and WVO (01/2025)

The current weather situation is causing problems for energy suppliers again and again. The question arises whether wind and photovoltaics with appropriate storage make a complete energy transition possible. Vegetable oil combined heat and power plants could fill this gap sensibly, because in ...