Fuel economy is 15 miles per gallon in the city, 22 on the highway, and 18 combined on E The front-driver uses a six-speed automatic transmission. Its GMC Terrain sibling returns the same fuel economy. The E85 version has the added incentive of offering a cleaner-burning fuel source as well. Running its automatic transmission option, the front-drive Ford hatchback returns 20 miles per gallon in the city, 28 on the highway and 23 combined.
Power comes from a 3. A six-speed automatic transmission routes power to the front wheels. E85 fuel economy is 12 miles per gallon in the city, 18 on the highway, and 14 combined. Turns out the all- new Chrysler has a lot more going for it than just good looks.
The sleek new Chrysler sedan also offers the ability to run on Ethanol among its other attributes. The availability of safety features like blind-spot monitoring and forward collision warning systems, rank it among the safest vehicles on the road. Power comes from a horsepower, 2. In the s, Henry Ford built the first ethanol-powered car.
Later, a Model-T was built to run on either gasoline or ethanol. More than years later, this technology is still in use and undergoing refinement. The brand with the most Efriendly vehicles on the market is General Motors.
GM's offerings feature yellow badges that advertise their "Flex Fuel" abilities meaning they can use traditional gasoline or E85 , but a GM survey found that almost 70 percent of owners of GM flex-fuel vehicles were unaware that their cars had this capability.
See Resources for a full list of Efriendly vehicles listed by manufacturer. E85 fuel is not yet widely available in the U.
The long answer is yes, if you have a degree in chemistry, lots of money, and tons of time on your hands. Car Talk points out that your car's fuel system, which is constructed from materials such as plastics and aluminum, can't handle ethanol. Ethanol can quickly damage components like rubber O-rings. You would also have to change your car's injectors and computer. A factory can easily and cheaply mass-produce FFV vehicles.
However, experts do not recommend you try to convert a traditional car into an E85 model. Ethanol often comes from the same corn used for livestock feeding. However, as It Still Runs points out, some producers are developing a form of ethanol known as cellulosic ethanol.
Producers can use plants other than corn, as well as biowaste, to make this form of ethanol, which means land used to grow food won't have to be used for ethanol production.
Ethanol helps reduce U. According to Car Talk, if producers took all the corn grown in the United States and turned it into ethanol, it would only replace 10 percent of the foreign oil we now use. However, if efforts to produce more cellulosic ethanol are successful, it could lead to a further reduction in foreign oil imports.
Any viable energy-independence solution would have to include other petroleum substitutes in addition to ethanol. It Still Runs notes that the United States has an oversupply of ethanol. Several ethanol plants have suspended production due to higher corn prices and an ethanol surplus.
As of , 42 percent of the United States corn harvest has been used to produce ethanol, leading to a debate over whether corn should be fuel or food. If you're shopping for a new car, and the model you're interested in is available as a flex-fuel vehicle, you might consider this option as E85 becomes more widely available and popular. New Cars. However, FFV models are identified by using the 8th character above in the vehicle identification number and a decal under the fuel door indicating E85 use is allowed.
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