India to launch E85 fuel tomorrow in push for fle fuel mobility

Key points

• India's oil marketing companies will begin rolling out E85 fuel—an 80-85% ethanol-blended variant of petrol—on Friday, marking a new phase in the push towards fle fuel mobility.
• said the first phase of the E85 rollout will cover about 50 retail outlets across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.
• “Indian Oil, along with other oil marketing companies, is set to launch E85, an ethanol-blended petrol developed for use in flex fuel vehicles (FFVs), on the occasion of World Environment Day,” the oil retailer said in a statement on Thursday.
• Mint earlier reported that the Centre is preparing a broader policy push to enable adoption of fle fuel vehicles that can run on ethanol blends of up to E85 petrol.
• “E85, containing 80-85% ethanol and 15-20% motor gasoline, marks an important milestone in India's ethanol adoption journey.