US automakers on track for more ethanol vehicles

Bloomberg Business Week
The Associated Press July 19, 2010, 12:54PM ET
By DEE-ANN DURBIN

DETROIT - U.S. automakers say they're on track to increase the number of vehicles that can run on fuel-saving ethanol, even as the ethanol industry falters and other technologies like electric vehicles capture the public's attention.

Most gasoline in the U.S. contains a low percentage of ethanol, which is a kind of alcohol made from corn, sugar and other substances. But only some vehicles can run on either gasoline or E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent fuel. There are around 8 million flex-fuel vehicles on the road right now. Regular gasoline vehicles can't run on E85.

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