That's interesting. In Victoria Australia (Melbourne to me more specific). LPG (liquid petroleum gas) cars were more very successful. Throughout the 80s and 90s almost every taxi was LPG, basically every petrol station also had (and many still do) have LPG. And it was super common if you bought a Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, two of the most popular cars of the 90s and 00s here that you would convert them to LPG. Typically by installing an additional smaller tank in the boot (trunk as Americans call it) and have a switch in the cabin to switch between the fuels. Maybe the smaller tank might only get a couple hundred kilometres but it was quick, cheap and easy to fill up, simple to swap back to petrol if you needed the range etc. It was so common, I know Ford (and possibly Holden) were offering the factory ready for LPG without a petrol tank.