Folks have been experimenting with ethanol in modern combustion engines even when they weren't so modern. Nicolaus Otto, the inventor of the traditional four-cycle engine, used it to power one of his ...

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it wants more tests to determine if car engines can handle higher concentrations of ethanol in gasoline before it decides whether to ...

And if ethanol really is more efficient, then why do you get worse fuel economy using E10 vs E0 (gasoline)? Whenever a fuel is listed as E10, E15, E85, E100 or E##, the number simply represents the ...

Locomotive manufacturer Wabtec and Vale have formalised an agreement to carry out laboratory assessments of a dual-fuel engine that operates on both diesel and a diesel-ethanol mixture. These tests, ...

Growth Energy, the pro-ethanol lobbying group, had petitioned the agency along with 54 producers to raise the so-called “blend wall” from 10% to 15% now, saying testing to date had shown gasoline ...