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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 ...
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 ]
E85 FlexFuel Chevrolet HHR LS 2009 (USA). E85 FlexFuel Chevrolet Impala LT 2009 (USA). 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).
The EPA has approved sales of E15 for cars and trucks manufactured after 2000. The RFA estimates that the higher blend will cost consumers more than 25 cents a gallon less than 10% ethanol.
E15 fuel does not pose a danger to the vast majority of vehicles on U.S. roads
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the price of E85 rose to nearly on par with the cost of 87 octane gasoline in many states in the United States, and was for a short time the only fuel available when gasoline was sold out, but within four weeks of Katrina, the price of E85 had fallen once more to a 20% to 35% lower cost than 87 ...
As of 2017, there were more than 21 million E85 flex-fuel vehicles in the United States, [1] up from about 11 million flex-fuel cars and light trucks in operation as of early 2013. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The number of flex-fuel vehicles on U.S roads increased from 1.4 million in 2001, to 4.1 million in 2005, and rose to 7.3 million in 2008.
E85 as a fuel is widely used in Sweden; however, most of it is imported from Italy and Brazil. E85 was formerly available from the Maxol chain in Ireland, where it was made from whey, a byproduct of cheese manufacturing. [13] The availability ended in 2011, due to a severe excise-duty hike which rendered it economically unviable.