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However, the fuel systems of cars, trucks, and motorcycles sold before the ethanol mandate may suffer substantial damage from the use of 10% ethanol blends. Flexible-fuel cars, trucks, and minivans use gasoline/ethanol blends ranging from pure gasoline up to 85% ethanol . By early 2013 there were around 11 million E85-capable vehicles on U.S ...
Postal Service truck running on E85 fuel and advertising its use. This picture is from the mail trucks in St. Paul, Minnesota. For the 2009 automobile year, General Motors offered 23 different engine/model Flex Fuel vehicle combinations. [12] Ford Motor company offered eight models, [13] Chrysler offered 11 models, [14] and Toyota offered just ...
U.S. E85 FlexFuel Chevrolet Tahoe. Ford E85 Flexfuel E-250 van. The Ford Focus Flexifuel was the first E85 available in Europe. Ford EcoSport Flex (Brazilian version). Ford Ka Flex (Brazilian version). Ford Fiesta Flex (Brazilian version). 2013. 3.6L Dodge Journey. 2.0 L Focus.
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Ethanol-blended fuel is widely used in Brazil, the United States, and Europe (see also Ethanol fuel by country). [2] Most cars on the road today in the U.S. can run on blends of up to 15% ethanol , [ 6 ] and ethanol represented 10% of the U.S. gasoline fuel supply derived from domestic sources in 2011. [ 2 ]
The fleet of flexible-fuel vehicles in the United States is the second largest in the world after Brazil, and there were more than 21 million 85 flex-fuel vehicles registered in the country by the end of 2017. [ 1 ] Despite the growing fleet of E85 flex-fuel vehicles, actual use of ethanol fuel is limited due to the lack of E85 refueling ...
Ethanol fuel mixtures have "E" numbers which describe the percentage of ethanol fuel in the mixture by volume, for example, E85 is 85% anhydrous ethanol and 15% gasoline. Low-ethanol blends are typically from E5 to E25, although internationally the most common use of the term refers to the E10 blend. Blends of E10 or less are used in more than ...
Ethanol fuel by country. Corn ethanol plant in the United States. Sugarcane ethanol plant in Brazil. The world's top ethanol fuel producers in 2011 were the United States with 13.9 billion U.S. liquid gallons (bg) (52.6 billion liters) and Brazil with 5.6 bg (21.1 billion liters), accounting together for 87.1% of world production of 22.36 ...