Ethanol


Ethanol from almost anything? Coskata opens Lighthouse cellulosic ethanol plant

Coskata's newly-opened semi-commercial flex ethanol facility in Madison, Pennsylvania is as small as it can possibly be. Co-located at a Westinghouse facility that also in some fashion uses nuclear energy, the Lighthouse project, as it's called, is running 24/7 to turn wood chips into ethanol. It's also intended to show off just how far Coskata has come since emerging from stealth mode almost two years ago. Oh, and the plant can also be scaled up to fit the needs of cellulosic ethanol producers from coast to coast. The Lighthouse plant ... Read more →

REPORT: Bentley to delay flex-fuel capability for 2010 Continental Supersports Jeremy Korzeniewski

While the environmental merits of any 621 horsepower, twelve-cylinder behemoth that's capable of traveling at speeds of up to 204 miles per hour are, at the very least, debatable, Bentley hasn't ...

Dyson Racing debuts ethanol-biobutanol blend at Petit Le Mans Sam Abuelsamid

When we spoke with American Le Mans Series CEO Scott Atherton at the Detroit Auto Show last January, he revealed that discussions were being held between the series and parties interested in ...

Watermelon Juice - the next great automotive fuel? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Corn as a source for ethanol has its problems. While there are a number of backers, there are real issues that need to be addressed, including (but not necessarily limited to) the huge amount of ...

Lazareth creates a 500-horsepower E85-powered quad (w/VIDEO) Jeremy Korzeniewski

French automobile and motorcycle builder Lazareth has managed to shoehorn an entire BMW V12 engine into one of its crazy Wazuma quads. While there isn't much that's environmentally friendly ...

Energy Secretary Chu: All American cars should be E85 capable 4 months ago on Autoblog

In early May, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $786.5 million "third-generation" biofuel program. Yesterday, ex-biofuel researcher Stephen Chu, the Energy Secretary, said that all cars made in America should be able to burn ethanol (E85). Earlier this month, Chu said electric vehicles were ...

The Price of Green: Bentley Continental Supersports is $267,000 7 months ago on Autoblog

The Continental Supersports has been priced, with Bentley having decided that $267,000 is fair compensation for exclusive access to green, luxurious speed. The ethanol-capable Conti is not only a sign of Bentley technology to come, it also provides the first clues to the next generation ...

Geneva Preview: Bentley goes green - really fast - with the Continental Supersports 8 months ago on Autoblog

Bentley has decided to go green, and the fabulously white coupe you see above is how they've done it: "a muscular two-seater that delivers supercar performance and a highly focused driving experience." Sounds green so far, right? It's called the Continental Supersports, and the marque from ...

VIDEO: Bentley releases early footage of new biofuel supercar 9 months ago on Autoblog

Bentley has released a teaser video of its upcoming new "extreme" biofuel supercar, which we expect will use a version of the British firm's existing German-engineered twelve-cylinder engine adapted to run on ethanol. Although Bentley is trying hard to promote the green side of the flex-fuel ...

Oklahoma Dreamin': Mustang-lovin' corn-grower chases record with ethanol 10 months ago on Autoblog

Brent Hajek loves racing cars and corn. The Oklahoma corn farmer is also the proprietor of a race car museum, and has managed to combine his two passions in an effort to set a new land speed record. The idea came out of the record Ford set with a Mustang Mach 1 some 40 years ago. Hajek wanted to ...

Ford developing next-gen, ethanol-boosted engines under Bobcat codename 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ford has yet to release its first EcoBoost engines but is reportedly already hard at work on the technology's next phase. Rumors indicate that the new engine technology is codenamed Bobcat and uses small amounts of ethanol injection to improve power and reduce emissions. Ethanol carries a very high ...

Lotus developing efficient two-stroke OMNIVORE engine 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel Lotus Engineering has been hard at work developing new engine technologies that allow the use of sustainable alcohol fuels. It's recent Exige 270E Tri-Fuel concept showed that the British firm knows how to make an engine run on ...

2010 HUMMER H3 to get direct-inject 3.6L V6 as base engine 1 year ago on Autoblog

Our friend Mike Levine, proprietor of PickupTruck.com, was trying out the new H3T pickup out in Moab, Utah this week and learned that the H3 will finally lose its hoary old five-cylinder base engine in favor of something a little more modern. A new flex fuel-capable direct-injected 3.6L V6 like the ...

Geneva '08 Preview: Lotus goes tri-fuel with Exige 270E 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel While assorted activists, politicians and random individuals carry on about the spectres of global warming, imported oil, CO2 emissions and other issues that combine to create timetable-free doomsday scenarios, there are people ...

Science magazine declares ethanol worse for the Earth than fossil fuels 1 year ago on Autoblog

Jon Markman at MSN Money doesn't hold back when he says "Corn-based ethanol production is sure to go down as one of the greatest mistakes ever in U.S. energy policy." It's even more provoking when he writes "replacing fossil fuels with corn-based ethanol would double greenhouse gas emissions over ...

The US according to Lutz: ethanol, yes, diesels, not so much 1 year ago on Autoblog

In the fuel economy and future tech debate, the hybrid vs. diesel vs. hydrogen fuel cells vs. smaller cars and smaller engines always provokes a fair bit of discussion among Autoblog commentators. At this point, no one yet knows what's going to win since nobody knows how the volatile mix of ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy 1 year ago on Autoblog

THE BREAKTHROUGH WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR? There seems to be an anti-ethanol bias in so much of the media that GM's recent announcement didn't get the kind of coverage it deserves. Did you miss it, too? Here's the news: GM is teaming up with a company called Coskata that's come up with a breakthrough ...

A1GP switches to ethanol mix, ships fuel to New Zealand 1 year ago on Autoblog

Switching a racing series to ethanol? Smart. Shipping the ethanol around the world to show how green that racing series is? Less so. A1GP has announced that its upcoming race in New Zealand will mark the inauguration of the series' switch to E30 Hiperflo ethanol-gasoline blend, which, as organizers ...

Detroit 2008: Ferrari fills in details on F430 Spider Bio Fuel 1 year ago on Autoblog

click above to view more images of the Ferrari 430 Spider Bio Fuel Ferrari's press conference here in Detroit was rather short and to the point. They reminded us that Kimi is World Champion and that the team is busy readying his defense. They also pointed out that the F430 GT is doing a bang-up job ...

Will requiring flex-fuel capable cars free us from foreign oil? 1 year ago on Autoblog

Robert Zubrin thinks so. Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and long-time advocate of manned missions to Mars. While going to Mars is a highly dubious proposition given the issues we need to deal with on our planet right now, making all gasoline engines flex-fuel capable as Zubrin promotes in his new ...

E85 as a performance fuel? Could be, according to General Motors 1 year ago on Autoblog

Taking a short break from wrangling the new HHR SS around the track at the Bondurant School for High Performance Driving (see above -- that's me), we got a chance to speak with some of the engineers behind the SS series of vehicles, among others. We took that opportunity to ask whether or not GM ...

Frankfurt Preview: GM to show Opel Corsa Hybrid Concept 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for gallery General Motors' Opel division will use the IAA in Frankfurt to push its ecoFLEX initiative, which will see the automaker leverage multiple technologies to help lower its offerings' CO2 emissions and fuel consumption. Headlining ecoFLEX for the automaker is the Opel Corsa ...

Citron introducing C4 BioFlex in Europe 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click images for photo gallery With favorable tax incentives for biofuel-powered vehicles popping up across Europe, European manufacturers are making moves to take advantage of them. Renault recently launched its BioEthanol Megane hatchback, and now Citroën has unveiled is entry, the C4 ...

MIT helps Ford apply pressure 2 years ago on Autoblog

Ford is looking for ways to pack their automobiles with innovative technology that achieves the seemingly impossible goal of using smaller, more efficient engines while still delivering the performance wallop customers are demanding. Not only is the Blue Oval seeking more involvement from their ...

Autocar drives the new Saab 9-3 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Saab 9-3 convertible The crew at AutoCar in jolly old England recently had a first crack at the updated 2008 Saab 9-3 and they've published their initial impressions. They mainly got to play with the flex-fuel 2.0L turbo four, which will ...

Koenigsegg drops a duo: CCGT and 1018 HP biofuel CCXR 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/New_Koenigsegg_CCXR_1018_HP_on_BioFuel'; Koenigsegg decided to release images and specs of the two supercars that will occupy their booth at next week's Geneva Motor Show. First, the CCXR, which is a standard CCX that's been converted to use ethanol ...

OPEC keeping cost of gas low to discourage alternatives like E85 3 years ago on Autoblog

OPEC wants gas prices at the sweet spot which looks a little like this: "high enough to justify its investment in future production capacity but low enough to allow economic growth and deter a flood of alternative fuels," or roughly $2.25 a gallon, according to Fox News. Good business sense or a ...

Green Flag: IndyCars run on 100% Ethanol at Daytona 3 years ago on Autoblog

Yesterday marked a historical milestone for open-wheel racing and for the movement towards alternative energy motorsports as former IndyCar champions Tonny Kanaan and Sam Hornish Jr. ran tests on 100% ethanol fuel. The champs ran the new 3.5-liter Honda V8s around the road course at Daytona all day ...

Samba de Honda: New FFV system for Brazil 3 years ago on Autoblog

Monday must have been "Engine Tech" day at Honda, seeing as they released info about their new clean diesel, Advanced VTEC, and the topic we're about to discuss: the new FFV system that'll be rolled out in Brazil later this year. Before we do that, we should mention that it isn't just automotive ...

GM supplying MTV with fleet of custom E85 vehicles and Chip Foose Tahoe Concept 3 years ago on Autoblog

General Motors has teamed up with the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards to supply the event with a fleet of 60 E85 capable Chevy Tahoe, Avalanche and Suburban vehicles. The fleet will be used to transport "talent" (we use that term loosely) to the event and also get the word out about the first E85 ...

Toyota pursuing plug-in hybrids and FFVs 3 years ago on Autoblog

Remember a long time ago when we reported that Toyota would not be developing a plug-in version of its popular hybrid vehicles, specifically a plug-in Toyota "King of Kilowatts" Prius? Well, power to the people! Jim Press stated today at the National Press Club that Toyota is indeed "pursuing" ...

Ford backs off on 250,000 hybrid promise 3 years ago on Autoblog

Bill Ford announced that his company is backing off on a promise he made last September to produce 250,000 hybrid vehicles by 2010 in an email sent to company employees Wednesday. While many see the move as Ford reneging on his promise, the automaker is saying that it "intends to pursue a broader ...

Autoblog Podcast #33 3 years ago on Autoblog

Sebastian Blanco, Editor of AutoblogGreen, joins me on the Autoblog Podcast this week as we talk about the results of the Strategic Vision Total Quality Awards and what they mean (if anything). We also spend time talking about diesel's day in the sun this past week as Audi made history by finishing ...

Hydrogen fuel cells are the wave of the future - just not the near future 3 years ago on Autoblog

Senior researchers from automakers around the world agree that internal combustion engines will dominate the automotive market for decades to come, even though hydrogen fuel cells are becoming an attractive replacement technology. Volkswagen's Wolfgang Steiger predicted that fuel cell cars will not ...

Brazil's flex-fuel vehicle market share drops - to "only" 76 percent 3 years ago on Autoblog

May new vehicle sales in Brazil were up 25 percent year-over-year, but the market share of flex-fuel vehicles fell for the second month in a row, to a mere 76.3 percent of the total. The sale of flex-fuel cars fell a fraction of a percent as ethanol prices rose, but the next sugar cane harvest is ...

Oil exec says Europe needs biodiesel, not ethanol 3 years ago on Autoblog

In an interview with Reuters, the head of agricultural development for oil company Total flatly stated that Europe needs more biodiesel production rather than competing alternative fuel ethanol, saying "The European market definitely is, and for a long time will be, a diesel market." Europe is a net ...

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