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Indian Oil opens ethanol fuel pump; Ethanol now available at 183 outlets | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The government has already mandated ethanol blending in petrol. Currently, the ethanol blend in petrol is around 12%. Nearly 25% of ethanol used for blending originates from sugarcane juice and sugar syrup, while roughly 45% comes from B-heavy molasses, a byproduct of sugar processing rich in sugar content.

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2024 RHD AUSEV F150 Lightning Review

Baua Electric

We did not have the opportunity to assess laden performance or range and a brief 25-minute drive was not long enough to accurately assess how far one of these utes will travel before needing to re-juice – loaded, towing or otherwise. Ford claims a range of 510km, and by all accounts, this is a fairly accurate indication.

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars. And as Europcar says on its website: Save on Petrol! Imagine having to register with a Shell servo before it let you pump petrol. I rent a Vauxhall Astra with petrol engine.

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Londoners gogoing electric

Green Cars News

London’s first non-membership electric car hire company GoGo Electric, which launched earlier this year, says that the bulk of its customers are private motorists living on the outskirts of the city who want to try out electrics as potential ‘early adopters’. Natalie said: “GoGo is a new business idea, and we think it is very timely.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. Power companies also use KWh as the base charge unit for billing consumers. Another Chinese company producing huge volumes of batteries.

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Electric two-wheeler sales surge to 935,000 units in FY2024 | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

A close look at the company-wise data table below will reveal that 22 of the Top 25 OEMs have registered their best-ever monthly sales in March 2024. In FY2024, the company’s market share increased to 00% from 24% in FY2023, clearly establishing its supremacy in the expanding market.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

Video: Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Electric Car FUD The first thing I want to talk about is the constant FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- regarding electric vehicles propagated by ICE car CEOs, the media, ICE-car-centric magazines and websites, and petrol heads. The Tesla Cybertruck has more than 1.3