E85 is an 85% ethanol 15% gasoline blend that is being sold in the US. Right now it is readily available in the corn growing states here in the US and hard to find everywhere else. There are however a couple of huge ethanol plants coming online this year and E85 will be increasingly available everywhere in the US. It's one of our country's largest attempts to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. With nationalistic, environemental, and big oil interests all in the mix it's a hot botton topic.
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Originally Posted by dynomatt
This is interesting. You guys have a fuel that's 85% Ethanol? How does it go?
We've just gone to a Shell product that has about 10% Ethanol and has 100 octane. I ran that in my rally car and it was really good...good power, and no pinging.
Reading the www.e85fuel.com there's only a few engines that run it. |