Earlier this year or was it last year, I forget, Ford said it would sell 250,000 hybrids by 2010, this week Bill Ford said that the Ford Motor company would concentrate on the FFV program. Currently, there are 12 E85 fueling locations in Michigan. Ford and the other Detroit Automakers plan on producing two million [...]

GM is offering $1,000 fuel card when a customer buys any new 2006 or 07 Chevy or GMC FFV in the Chicago-Rockford (there are only two Ethanol gas stations here) and Minneapolis-St. Paul markets between 2 May and 31 July 2006. But here comes the best part, based on fuel price of $ 2.91 per [...]

Beginning this month, Cincinnati (Ohio) Metro is fueling all of its buses with a B50 biodiesel blend (50% biodiesel). Metro intends to use the 50% blend in months when the average temperature is higher than 40º F (April to October) and switch back to a B20 blend in colder months. According to this article Ohio [...]

Chrysler plans on selling FFV models of the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Commander in 2007. Both models will come with E85 engines. However, with an EPA estimate of 17 mpg combined on both these vehicle, I do not see them being of any good use, I know that some people will say its better to [...]

Toyota has decided to jump onto the ethanol bandwagon and plans on selling FFV in the US by 2008. A Toyota spokeswoman in Tokyo acknowledged that Japan’s top auto maker was developing flexible-fuel vehicles, mainly for the ethanol-smitten Brazilian market for starters, but declined to disclose specific product plans. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

GM has littered the New York International Auto Show with Flex Fuel vehicles and to make sure attendees do not miss them, all of them are in bright yellow and green, hence touting the “live green, go yellow” GM motto. We have already been through this people, just by putting out an Avalanche or any [...]

The other day Krissy and I were somehow got talking about buying a second car (like that is going to happen anytime soon), she was interested in a FFV, so I told her one of the major problems would be finding a gas station near us that supplies E85. Currently, there are only six E85 [...]

In next week’s Stockholm Car show, Saab is going to unveil its electric hybrid car which runs on E85. Saab have been developing this engine at Lund Technical University, Sweden and Saab claims that the CO2 emissions will be down to 15-20 grams/km compared to Prius 104 grams/km. Source: Saab to showcase world’s first ethanol [...]

BMW Group has plans of introducing bi-fuel (Gasoline-Hydrogen) 7 series this year. With the 170-liter liquid hydrogen tank storing about 8 kg of hydrogen, the car has a hydrogen-fueled range of 200 to 300 kilometers (125 to 185 miles). On gasoline, the car has a range up to 500 kilometers (310 miles). Now from past [...]

So wonder what happens to the oil your fries where fried in, well Biodiesel comes from here (new and/or used veggie oil and animal fat). Again the same pattern emerges, an alternative that is actually more costly that E85 and gasoline. Buyers could end up paying anywhere between .20 to .40 cents per gallon for [...]

So GM, Ford & Chrysler are pushing for E85 FFV vehicles, but with approximately 5 million FFV’s on the road, only 600 out of 117,000 gas stations dispense E85 nationwide. Another reason why automakers are pushing for E85 FFV’s is because these companies get credit to help meet federal fuel economy standards. All these companies [...]

Found this article on USA Today, it just proves my point about the E85 sales pitch by GM, and Ford.

According to the US Dept. of Energy FFV’s burn 1.4 times more E85 when compared to gasoline. The problem with E85 is that as an alternative to gas, it cost more and people who buy these FFV may actually never use E85. So we have to choose wether we want to pay more for E85 [...]

Biodiesel, Electricity, Hydrogen, Propane and Natural Gas are the other alternatives for a renewable fuel resource. Car manufacturers are still in the process of developing Electricity aka Fuel Cell and Hydrogen based vehicles. These cars can then truely be called a “green car”. GM and Toyota were trying to collaborate together on Fuel Cell technology, [...]

Currently there are 6 million E85 compatible cars in the US. Anyone know the current number of cars on the road in the US?

Want to find out if your car is E85 (Ethanol) compatible. Check out the website put up by the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition.This site also allows you to locate the nearest E85 gas station. Currently GM claims Michigan has five E85 gas station, the latest being a Citgo in SouthField, MI. But if you go [...]