Soon such an announcement is going to be made by the central government, which will reduce the cost of driving your car by almost half. This will be possible with the use of alternate fuel (ethanol). Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that he is going to make a big announcement on flex-fuel engines in the next 10 days. Such engines will be made mandatory for the automobile industry. Flex fuel means Flexible Fuel, that is, a fuel that can fuel on ethanol instead of petrol. Gadkari says that the price of this alternative fuel will be Rs 60-62 per liter, while the price of petrol is more than Rs 100 per liter. Therefore, driving a car using ethanol will be up to 40 percent cheaper. That is, there will be a saving of up to Rs 35 / liter.
flex-fuel engines will be mandatory
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said at an event, “I am the transport minister, I am going to issue an order to the industry that there will be not only petrol engines, there will also be flex-fuel engines, where there will be an option for the people to have 100% Use crude or use 100% ethanol. I am going to take a decision in next 8-10 days, we are going to make flex fuel engine mandatory for automobile industry.
Gadkari said that automobile companies in Brazil, Canada and America are producing flex fuel engines. In these countries, customers are being provided with the option of 100% petrol or 100% bioethanol. At present, 8.5 percent ethanol blending is allowed per liter of petrol. In 2014 it was 1 to 1.5 percent. The purchase of ethanol has also increased from 38 crore liters to 320 crore liters.
Recently, PM Modi had said that the target of achieving 20 percent ethanol blending with petrol has been set by 2025 to cut pollution and reduce dependence on imports. The government had last year set a target of 10 per cent ethanol blending in petrol by 2022 and 20 per cent doping by 2030.
Ethanol fuel is better than petrol
Union Minister Gadkari says that ethanol is a much better fuel than petrol and it is low cost, pollution free and indigenous. This is a step to boost the Indian economy because there is a surplus of maize, sugar and wheat in our country. We do not have a place to keep them in food grains. Considering that the surplus of food grains is creating a problem, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of our crops is higher than the international prices and domestic market prices, so the government has decided to make ethanol juice using food grains and sugarcane. can.