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Maruti Suzuki launches India's first flex-fuel car, bets on biofuels to boost energy securityMaruti Suzuki has launched India's first flex-fuel passenger car, the Wagon R. This move aims to significantly cut crude oil imports and lo...
Govt eyes ethanol blend beyond 20%, pushes flex-fuel vehiclesIndia is exploring higher ethanol blending in petrol and flex-fuel vehicles. This move aims to reduce reliance on imported oil. Discussions...
Indian Oil hits impressive biodiesel blending ratio, sets new benchmark by blending 23.24 crore litres of biodieselIndianOil has set a new benchmark by blending 23.24 crore liters of biodiesel with regular diesel, achieving a 0.49 percent blending ratio....
Ethanol blending in petrol now stands at over 15%Ethanol blending in petrol exceeded 15% in May, driven by increased purchases from biofuel makers. Oil companies achieved an average blendi...
India to get its first flex-fuel car by Toyota tomorrowHowever, neither carmaker Toyota nor the minister has reveled the new flex-fuel car model name, but several reports suggest that the Japane...
Ethanol blending with petrol has increased 10 times in 8 years: PM ModiModi said sustained efforts to increase the annual income of farmers in last eight years are showing results now. Apart from farming, the p...
Budget 2022: Additional excise duty to promote ethanol blendingEthanol availability is not uniform and states far away from production centres are likely to have lower average blending ratios.
Petrol not blended with ethanol set get expensive from October“Blending of fuel is a priority of this Government. To encourage the efforts for blending of fuel, unblended fuel shall attract an addition...
Ethanol blending in petrol hits 8.1% on better suppliesThe government has been aiming to increase the share of biofuels in the transportation sector to cut dependence on oil imports, which accou...
India brings forward target of 20 percent ethanol-blending in petrol to 2023Last year, the government had set a target of reaching 10 per cent ethanol-blending in petrol (10 per cent of ethanol mixed with 90 per cen...
Delhi air quality may suffer as state yet to allow more ethanol storageDelhi has experienced severe air pollution spells this year with thick smog covering the city because of fumes from agricultural fires alon...
Sugar stocks rise on latest government ethanol policyAnalysts also said Indian sugar mills may benefit as export from Brazil has gone down.
Cabinet nod to revision of ethanol price for petrol blendingThe price of ethanol will be determined on the basis of prevalent price of sugar in the open market as also demand- supply situation, Oil M...
Fuel marketers to meet 5% ethanol blending target in 2016: Dharmendra PradhanState-run fuel retailers will meet the target of blending 5% ethanol in petrol for the first time this year, about a decade after the gover...
Fuel marketers to meet 5% ethanol blending target this year: Oil Minister Dharmendra PradhanOver 12 years after its launch, the government hopes to achieve the target of mandatory mixing 5 per cent ethanol in petrol this year.
Chempolis partners ACRID to offer ethanol extraction technologyFinland-based biorefining technology firm Chempolis has partnered Avantha Group's research wing ACRID to offer technology to extract ethano...
State oil firms like BPCL, HPCL seeking to buy 266 crore litres of ethanolState-run fossil fuel retailers have initiated a move to buy 266 crore litres of ethanol to blend with petrol and meet the 5 per cent blend...
Oil PSUs start process to procure biodieselIndian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation have invited tenders for procurement of 850 millio...
- OilMin gets to work on sale of ethanol-blended petrol
A day after receiving a rap from the Union Cabinet, Oil Minister Murli Deora today called a meeting of fuel retailers and sugar millers to ...
- Biofuel boom to push up food costs
If every country meets its target for biofuels, what you save at the gas station may go right back at the grocer’s.