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DOE to award up to $4.5M to projects for alt fuel and advanced vehicle deployment

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Projects may include, but are not limited to local ride-share and car-share programs; rental car programs;commercial truck/bus leasing programs; and activities that include driver feedback devices, data gathering, and analysis during the demo period. Blends of 85% or more of alcohol with gasoline.

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DOE Co-Optima researchers identify 6 high-potential blendstocks

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While fuel economy ratings of today’s cars significantly outstrip those of just a decade ago, cost-effective efficiency improvements remain limited by existing engine designs and fuel formulas.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. At the same time, 2 domestic car manufacturers started the development of dedicate methanol models that can burn M85 and M100. Earlier post.) and Gong, H. Sileghem, L., Wallner, T.,

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. of water.