General Motors, Ford, and other automakers, want more visibility for their flexible fuel vehicles.
They are called flexi-fuel vehicles, because as well as petrol they can run on bioethanol.
Today, there are on our highways roughly six million cars known as Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs).
Most prototype hydrogen-powered vehicles use more energy than the fossil-fuel vehicles they replace.
There are already some 6 million of these Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) on our roads today.
These so-called flex-fuel vehicles can burn either gasoline or ethanol or almost any mixture of the two.
In Brazil, 90% of new cars sold are so-called flex-fuel vehicles that run on either gas or ethanol.
It's their reward for building these alternative-fuel vehicles, even though the vehicles themselves rarely actually burn alternative fuel.
The report projects that by 2040, alternative fuel vehicles will consume about 13.7% of our light-duty vehicle fuel.
Alt-fuel vehicles have better than average depreciation rates, at least through the first year or two of ownership.
To be sure, selling alternative fuel vehicles has never been an easy task for Detroit or other carmakers.
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Currently, roughly 50 percent of GSA's 210, 000 leased vehicles are alternative fuel vehicles.
It enjoyed a fanfare success, especially because of government subsidies for clean-fuel vehicles.
This post kicks off a Forbes conversation on alternative-fuel vehicles that will appear online over the next few days.
There are already 6 million such "Flexible Fuel Vehicles" (FFVs) on America's highways.
The VAM will help agencies identify opportunities to incorporate alternative fuel vehicles and identify and eliminate unnecessary vehicles from their fleets.
Just as every car sold in America has seatbelts and airbags, from now on, they should all be flexible fuel vehicles .
There are an estimated five million flex-fuel vehicles but only about 500 E85 fuel stations and most of those in the corn belt.
The government rates the fuel economy of flex-fuel vehicles at about 165% the miles per gallon (mpg) they would get on straight petrol.
Executive Order 13031 requires Federal departments and agencies to report to OMB on the acquisition of alternative-fuel vehicles for use in the Federal fleet.
Whether or not hybrids or cleaner-fuel vehicles are available, choosing a vehicle that gets good gas mileage helps reduce the amount of burned fossil fuels.
Mr. PHIL LAMPERT (Director, National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition): It was a tremendous success in that before that, there were no alternative-fuel vehicles manufactured in this country.
If you're renting a car, Mullis and Spatrisano both recommend hybrid- or energy-efficient fuel vehicles, although they acknowledge that these can be hard to find in many locations.
One frequent question deals with Compressed Natural Gas or Liquified Natural Gas vehicles (Natural Gas Vehicles or NGV) in comparison with tri-Flex Fuel vehicles ( Gasoline, Ethanol, Methanol) vehicles.
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Typical of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) rules, there are many credits offered for different types of vehicles based on their drivetrains, encouraging automakers to make and sell alternative drive and alternative fuel vehicles.
Hybrid vehicles cost more than traditional cars but their running cost is much lower and with the gas prices continuing to remain persistently high, alternative fuel vehicles are gaining popularity both domestically and internationally.
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Long before vast numbers of such Flexible Fuel Vehicles are on the roads, the OPEC cartel-induced speculative bubble that has contributed to the recent run-up in the price per barrel of oil will be lanced.
Mandate All New Vehicles are Flexible Fuel Vehicles: Barack Obama believes that all new vehicles sold in the U.S. should be flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs), which means they can run on biofuel blends like E85.
"As Detroit starts putting out lots of alternative fuel vehicles that are competitive, you're going to see individuals across the country opting for alternative-fuel vehicles for their first choice, " says Christine Ervin, assistant secretary for the Department of Energy.
Some of the issues that need to be addressed, he says, are the lack of any tax on aviation fuel, fiscal incentives for alternative-fuel vehicles, and the need for a carbon tax to replace the government's ill-directed climate-change levy.
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