In India, the IANS news agency reports that the government is likely to issue guidelines for auto manufacturers by October regarding the production of flex-fuel vehicles. The move aims to drive further ethanol consumption as the government quickly shifts to 20% ethanol blending by 2023. Currently only two-wheeled vehicles are manufactured domestically that can run […]
In Washington, D.C., the Renewable Fuels Association updated its annual flex fuel vehicles brochure to help consumers find out if their vehicle can run on up to 85 percent ethanol (E85). The brochure compiles the FFV models available in the current model year (MY2019), as well as previous years going back as far as MY1998. […]
In Brazil, Bloomberg reports that Toyota hasn’t had to spend a lot of money on “tweaking and some calibration” to get its hybrid vehicles to also run on flex-fuel, allowing for hydrous ethanol to fuel hybrid vehicles. The R&D is almost finished and the Latin American CEO for the company is ready to roll them […]
In India, the indigenous automobile industry is concerned about the new flex-fuel policy that will be released before Jan. 29 because it will take manufacturers the better part of a year to sort out flex-fuel technology while international manufacturers already selling in Brazil will have a head start. Additional costs will be passed on to […]
In Paraguay, the Senate has approved amendments proposed by the lower house of Congress for the ethanol law, leaving the president to sign or veto the bill before it comes into law. The new law is meant to facilitate fuel supplies for the growing number of flex-fuel vehicles in the country but supporting more E85 […]
In Maryland and Virginia, the FlexFuel Awareness Campaign completed part of its Mid Atlantic Alternative Fuel Road Show highly successfully last week. The FlexFuel Awareness Campaign focuses on the message that high level ethanol blends and FlexFuel Vehicles (FFVs ) are an option for private and government fleets as well as individual consumers, and that […]
In Brazil, BMW has started manufacturing its flex–fuel X1 vehicle at the company’s new manufacturing plant in Santa Catarina. The vehicle uses the sDrive20i powered by a 2-liter gasoline engine with ActiveFlex technology. Last month the company started assembling the 328i ActiveFlex there as well. So far the ActiveFlex technology appears to only be available […]
In Brazil, Yamaha will launch in March its XTZ150S Crosser BlueFlex motorcycle that has a flex-fuel engine allowing it to run on all blends of ethanol. The move comes after the successful introduction last year of the smaller YS150 Fazer BlueFlex street motorcycle that apparently has sold very well with 75,000 units having likely been […]
In Washington, Growth Energy’s EthanolRetailer.com will be re-launched on June 5 to feature a Flex Fuel mapping feature and smartphone app for drivers to search for nearby ethanol pumps. According to the Department of Energy, more than nine million Flex Fuel vehicles were on the road in 2011, with an expected 12 percent growth in […]
In Texas, the oil and gas daily, Downstream Today, in an article about combating high oil prices, wrote: “The need, therefore, is for car makers to develop vehicles that can carry and use multiple fuels at the same time…These trends, summarized below, indicate that the auto industry can make flex fuel cars a reality. “Once […]
