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Fuel producers in Germany have cut their production of E10 as the country continues to suffer from a consumer backlash against the new fuel. From the beginning of this year, German petrol stations have been required to offer the new Super E10 petrol or face fines. However five months into the compulsory presence of E10 [...]

Fuel supplier Greenergy is to start producing biofuel from food waste. The privately owned firm which supplies one fifth of Britain’s road fuel has formed a partnership with Brocklesby Ltd which specialise in recycling edible oils. The new partnership will see the firms use waste food-‘enough to fill a cruise ship’ which would otherwise head [...]

A fuel supplier in New Zealand has launched a new 85 per cent bioethanol fuel- the first high blend ethanol content fuel available publicly through the country’s petrol stations. Gull New Zealand has launched the new Gull Force Pro fuel as a high-octane, low emission alternative to conventional petrol. According to calculations by the Energy [...]

Could the US president’s push for greater use of ethanol in transport stifle the development of next-generation biofuels? That’s the question one article poses for us today as the US Senate debates new legislation which would require car makers to equip new vehicles to run on both ethanol and gasoline and require service stations to [...]

Trust Swedish Volvo to design an electric car able to withstand extreme cold. It has been a major concern in the development of the first electric models, that fluctuations in temperature will negatively affect the driving range offered by the car’s batteries. However, good ol’ Volvo has come to the rescue and proven that cold [...]

The German government is blaming its fuel industry over a botched attempt to introduced E10 in country, which has resulted in motorists responding nervously to the new fuel. According to numerous press reports, deliveries of the fuel stopped yesterday, as consumers refuse to purchase the ethanol-petrol mix because of widespread confusion over which vehicles can [...]

Former US president Bill Clinton has issued a warning to his country that ethanol use could drive food riots in poorer countries. Speaking at the US Agriculture Department’s annual outlook forum, the former president warned that with global food prices already on the rise and more corn being diverted into ethanol production, people in poor [...]

The ethanol industry is reeling from a decision by the US House of Representatives to vote against the expansion of ethanol use in road transport fuels. The House voted to block the the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from rising the cap on ethanol use from 10 to 15 per cent. In a further hit [...]

The streets of Sweden will soon receive an influx of biofuel buses after Scania received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige. Around 123 urban and suburban buses will be used in the greater Stockholm area, with the rest posted elsewhere. Scania had previously delivered both ethanol and biogas fuelled vehicles [...]

Researchers at Purdue University have delivered a damning verdict on the US’s efforts to reach federal Renewable Fuel Standard volume mandates. They are of the opinion that it will be “essentially impossible” to reach these standards if ethanol remains as the primary biofuel mainly because of the ethanol blending limit. Authors believe that the constraint [...]