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Embassy of Brazil in India - NEWS http://www.brazilembassyinindia.com/news.htm First cars produced in Brazil with dual fuel engines The Brazilian branches of Magneti Marelli and Bosch developed a bi-fuel system based on a chip that recognizes the type and proportion of fuel blend, allowing the owner to choose between petrol and ethanol or to mix both in any quantity in the same engine. This technology provides the car owner with the best choice regarding fuel prices, availability or gas emissions. Volkswagen produced the first 1.200 passenger cars with the system. Fiat, Ford and General Motors will launch cars with this system in the middle of the year. The additional cost of the system is expected to be less than 10% of the total cost of the car. But, as an incentive for the system, the tax on the production of such vehicles will be 2% lower than for petrol-run cars. (April/2003) New research on production of biodiesel Biodiesel: new techniques were developed on biodiesel using vegetal oil in reaction with ethanol through electromagnetic radiation. Using soybean coconut, sunflower or other kinds of oil, this technology can produce a volume of fuel 30 times as big as the volume produced in European of North-American plants using methanol. The Brazilian National Agency for Petroleum will eventually issue directives regarding the use of the fuel. (April/2003) The government authorizes the blend of 25% of ethanol to petrol The Interministerial Council for Sugar and Alcohol (CIMA) approved the addition of 25% of ethanol to petrol, up from the current 20%, from 1st of June on. (May/2003) Brazil-U.S. Business Council, Brazil Bulletin, Vol. XIII, No. 28 July 14, 2003 http://www.brazilcouncil.org/aboutthecouncil/about_memservices_bbulletin.html *** The Brazilian subsidiary of Volkswagen this week unveiled plans to sell only dual-fuel vehicles in three years' time. VW was the first carmaker to launch a dual-fuel automobile in Brazil. The Gol Total Flex runs either on gasoline, fuel ethanol or any mix of the two fuels combined. Quatro Rodas [google.com translation] EXCLUSIVE - Total Goal Flex http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://quatrorodas.abril.com.br/plus/0403_totalflex.shtml&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGol%2BTotal%2BFlex%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG Alcohol or gasoline? You decide in the rank We test the first car that uses alcohol or gasoline in any ratio <snip> FOUR WHEELS tested, with exclusiveness, the Total Goal Flex. E the numbers had confirmed the optimistical forecasts. The consumption numbers had been well next to the ones to the Goal Power 1,6 the alcohol and the gasoline, tested in the edition of October of the last year: With pure alcohol, the Flex Total made 5,29 km/l in urban stretch and 10,29 in highway. Already with gasoline, the 7,64 numbers had been km/l and 12,91. Already with mixture 50/50, the car made 6,37 km/l in city and 11,23 km/l in the road. <snip> > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/