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More anonymous emails have brought my attention to more HHO scams in the UK. HHO Fuel Southwest is a scam, as is hho4u / hydrotechnixuk.co.uk.

Both sites make the same preposterous claims of reduced fuel consumption and cleaner emissions as every other pedaller of this nonsense. There is no prof that any of their claims are true for the simple reason that it is not true, it is a scam.

What is new to me is both sites claim something which I have not seen before, they claim you will be entitled to lower road-tax because you will be able to re-register your vehicle as a “hybrid”.

I contacted the DVLA to see if they are allowing this and to ensure they know that  this is a scam. They replied that they most certainly do not consider these systems as hybrid and that “neither the vehicle registration certificate or the vehicle excise duty (VED) rate will need to be changed”.

I’d therefore presume that anyone saying that the DVLA have allowed a change of status to “hybrid” a liar. If you have any proof that the DVLA have done this then I’d live to see it.

The DVLA have so far not been drawn on weather or not the system works, but then this is not their job or their remit, I have an email here saying they have passed the matter to a technical department and will get back to me in 10 days.

Both HHO Fuel Soutwest and HHO4U also both claim to be members of TAMA, some HHO trade association, but I can’t find any evidence of it actually existing.

Hydrotechnix UK also claim that they are in negotiations with Central London Congestion Charging about if their system qualifies. Funnily enough Central London Congestion Charging are unaware of any such conversation, they were very pleased to have had the matter brought to their attention and assure me that there was no way by which any such system could be qualify for the discount.

We have a stringent process and checks in place to certify the validity of any Alternative Fuel Vehicle Discount.

To be eligible for the discount the vehicle must be:

• on the PowerShift register,
• must produce 40% less emission,
• be registered accordingly with the DVLA,
• the person applying for the discount must be able to supply relevant proofs.

With these steps in place I can assure you that only vehicles that are truly eligible will be offer the discount.

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hydrotechnixuk.co.uk is registered to “Hungry Ltd” Unit 20 Red Lion Business Park, Red Lion Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7Q who are actually “excotek.com”.

hhosw.com is registered to an Andrew Reynolds in Sunnydale, California.