Japan's Suzuki Motor to launch 100 pct ethanol cars in U.S., Brazil - report

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Sunday, August 17, 2008; Posted: 06:25 PM

TOKYO, Aug 18, 2008 (Thomson Financial via COMTEX) -- SZKMF Quote Chart News PowerRating -- Japanese car maker Suzuki Motor Corp plans to develop cars that run completely on bioethanol fuel and release them in South America and the United States in around 2010, the Nikkei reported at the weekend, without citing sources.

As a first step, the company plans to begin selling in Brazil and elsewhere a passenger car fuelled by a gasoline-bioethanol mixture that is 25 percent bioethanol by the end of March, the business daily said.

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