Flex-fuel vehicles started to become popular in the mid-1990s. Manufacturers designed these vehicles to burn E85 or other gas-biofuel blends. Many people are confused about what E85 is used for. This ...

The future of the world depends on humans stopping, and hopefully reversing, the damage we’ve caused to Earth by mining and using fossil fuels. Innovators and scientists have scrambled for decades to ...

In the interest of keeping gas engines alive, many automakers, scientists and other automotive businesses are working hard to find alternatives which provide a more sustainable future for the fuel.

A car's fuel system is the lifeblood of your combustion cycle. If a pump maxes out and is unable to deliver the fuel the injectors need, a lean situation can lead to detonation. The stock, single fuel ...

Alex Kaufmann March 17, 2009 Comment Now! Ethanol is a hot topic among biofuels advocates - and opponents - and green-car fiends alike, but it has a long tradition as a performance fuel as well.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has employed a series of initiatives since the early 2000s to endorse the introduction and utilization of renewable fuels, with the target of 136 billion ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 22, 2007 Comment Now! Mitsubishi has confirmed that it will develop and market a flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) for the Brazilian market by the end of the year. Automotive ...

Toyota has unveiled in Brazil a prototype Prius equipped with a flex-fuel engine that can run on both gasoline and ethanol, combined with a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) system. According to the company, when ...

Honda Motor Corp. on Monday announced environmental engineering improvements on three fronts: a fuel cell system that’s smaller but provides a longer driving range than before, a diesel engine that it ...

Three months after Volkswagen launched the first Brazilian-made vehicle with a flex-fuel system engine, the Gol Total Flex, General Motors do Brasil has responded with a rival model, the Chevrolet ...

The Brazilian units of rivals Bosch and Magneti Marelli are sparring over the next generation of flex-fuel cars in Brazil. Encouraged by recent strong growth in sales of flex-fuel vehicles, the two ...

The street car market has come a long way since it went big-time in 1992, when HOT ROD launched its Top 10 Fastest Street Cars in America. In those 30-plus years there have been thousands of street ...