Centre amends rules to allow E100 fuel in compatible vehicles
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The Union government has amended rules to allow vehicles designed for flex-fuel to run on E100, a fuel made up of nearly 100% ethanol.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued the notification amending the Motor Vehicles Rules on Friday. The changes came into effect on Monday.
The modified rules allow flex-fuel vehicles to run on E100 alongside E85, which contains 85% ethanol and 15% petrol.
Flex-fuel vehicles can run on different blends of petrol and ethanol. However, regular petrol vehicles, including those designed to run on E20 fuel, which contains 20% ethanol and 80% petrol, cannot use E85 or E100, Hindustan Times reported.
Under its Ethanol Blended Petrol programme, the government mandates that all petrol sold in the country be blended with 20% ethanol – a substance produced from sugarcane and food grain. The policy is aimed at reducing India’s dependency on fossil fuels, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting income for sugarcane farmers.
However, consumers have complained that the new fuel mix damages engines and reduces their mileage.
An opinion poll by LocalCircles published on July 5 showed that 53% of the surveyed petrol vehicle owners said that they believe that the government’s handling of the E20 rollout was “disastrous” or “ineffective”.
In July, the Union government acknowledged that petrol blended with 20% ethanol can reduce fuel efficiency by 2% to 6% in vehicles designed...