Flex-Fuel

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  2009 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Winner Reaches 2,757 MPG

  Shell Oil’s Eco-Marathon has its origins in a “mileage” race in 1939 that was designed to test the fuel mileage of employee vehicles. This simpl...

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  Progressive Insurance Auto X Prize Finalists Filled with Industry Players, Novices

  Representatives from the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize announced their roster of finalists in a press conference on April 7th. The goa...

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  Federal Transit Administration Highlights Pros, Cons of Hydrogen Buses in New Report

  (Photo on Piero Fissore on Flickr)The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published a report last week entitled, “A Report on Worldwide Hydrog...

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  Orbital Corporation, Sygma Motors Developing Flex Fuel Engines in Brazil

  (Photo by Thomas Hobbs on Flickr)Brazilian businesses and government agencies may be running on ethanol rather than gasoline if collaboration between ...

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  Ethanol, Vegetable Oil, and CNG: the Future of Fuel

  What is the fuel of the future? With petroleum finally on the way out there are a myriad of alternative fuels vying to take its place. Among there are...

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  General Motors, Department of Energy and College Students Present EcoCAR Designs in Washington, DC

  The Washington Auto Show featured a presentation by 17 teams of engineering students participating in the EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge progr...

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  Flex-Fuel Cars Dominate Ethanol Vehicle Market

  Is ethanol the next big fuel to the automotive market? With most everone striving to make their cars more eco-friendly, ethanol does not remain a fuel...

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  Advantages of Flex Fuels

  (Photo by keishkakeishka)The Environmental Protection Agency defines flex-fuel vehicles as cars, trucks and SUVs designed to “run on gasoline or a b...

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  Look at Alternative Fuel Conversion Kits for Your Family Car

  While automakers are slowly coming around to alternative fuels, hundreds of companies are jumping into the alternative fuel niche with conversion kits...

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  European Parliament's Industry Committee Approves New Plan for Renewable Fuels, Non-Food Fuel Sources

  The European Parliament has been busy lately negotiating new standards for fuel emissions on the continent. The body’s Industry Committee was fo...

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