Mar 25 2008

Brazil has more than 5 million cars driving on Ethanol

By John Baeyens | Share This Brazil

Today Brazil clocked on more than 5 million cars driving with flex engines. Most car manufacturers have a local plant in Brazil.  I explained already why.  Most of these cars are produced with flex engines, which run both on ethanol and gasoline.  People like having a backup of gasoline; in some rare remote places, they don't have ethanol pumps.   But in most states all the pumps have both ethanol and gasoline.  I drove for two years with a Peugeot with flex engine; a big pleasure, especially for your wallet.  Contrary to the US, the Brazilian government doesn't subsidize the production of ethanol though.  The production of the Brazilian ethanol from sugarcane has a much positiver yield than the yield from mais in the US, and much more productive than the production of biodiesel from poppyseed flowers in Europe.  The latter even has a net negative energy yield.  Only in Europe.
PS 1,69 R$ = 0,62 € per liter ethanol alcool.  The price of a liter of gasoline is currently 0,917 € in Brazil.

 

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