http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/flexible-fuel-vehicles Blog Articles Tagged with 'flexible-fuel-vehicles' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1142041?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles VeraSun Energy Corporation, one of the nation s largest corn ethanol producers, has filed voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code to enhance liquidity while they reorganize. VeraSun hedged its corn purchases during... Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:46:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1142041?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1137260?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles According to a new report from the Minnesota SmartFleet Committee, E85 use in the state fleet during the first three quarters of 2008 is 79% greater than during the same period in 2007. In the first nine months of 2008, 529,000 gallons of E85 were us... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:39 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1137260?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1134092?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles An article in yesterday's Financial Times raised some provocative questions about the future status of commodities as an attractive asset class for institutions and other investors seeking to diversify their risks and improve their returns. Anyone wh... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:13:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1134092?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1111695?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard is back in the news. One of the main results of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) was to increase the overall US new car fleet CAFE target to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Now th... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:41:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1111695?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles GM will offer 18 flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) in the US for model year 2009, ranging from the four-cylinder Chevrolet HHR small crossover to the full-size Cadillac Escalade ESV luxury utility.We continue to believe that biofuels, specifically E85, i... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:36:13 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1104881?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1028768?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Nearly 1.8 million alternative fuel automobiles (AFAs, which include E85 flex fuel vehicles) were sold in the US in 2007, roughly 250,000 more than in 2006, according to figures gathered by R.L. Polk and released by the Alliance of Automobile Manufac... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:50:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1028768?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1014094?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Entries are now being accepted for the 4th Annual Green Grand Prix time-speed-distance road rally through the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York. The rally is the only road rally for alternate fueled vehicles and hybrids in the United States spo... Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:31:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1014094?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/992878?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Mitsubishi Motors will emphasize its environmental strategies primarily in mature markets. Click to enlarge.Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has unveiled its new mid-term business plan Step Up 2010 for fiscal years 2008 through 2010 (ending March 31... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:55:41 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/992878?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/991156?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles The US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) mandates, among its many components, an aggressive ramp-up in the use of renewable fuels, culminating in a 36 billion gallon renewable fuel standard (RFS) by 2022. Of that, corn ethanol produ... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:26:40 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/991156?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/983205?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Have you ever encountered an idea so blindingly simple and obvious that you slapped your forehead in frustration that it didn't occur to you first? I had one of those moments the other day, reading an article that popped up on my personalized MSN po... Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:51:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/983205?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/969295?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Ford Motor Company is adding three additional vehicles to its E-85 flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) line-up for the 2009 model year: Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator full size sports utility vehicles and Ford E-Series full size van and wagon.The Ford... Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:03:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/969295?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/958113?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles The Kansas Department of Agriculture is launching a one-year pilot project that will allow flexible-fuel vehicle owners to purchase a range of ethanol blends such as E20, E30, E50 or E85. Currently there are 28 stations in Kansas selling E85 fuel. To... Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:54:39 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/958113?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/954223?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles The new Renewable Fuel Standard in the energy bill calls for a rapid acceleration in the production of cellulosic biofuels (red), and a capping of corn ethanol at 15 billion gallons per year. Click to enlarge.By a 314 to 100 vote, the US House of Rep... Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:51:51 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/954223?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/948865?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles In a vote largely split along party lines, the US House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, an amalgamated energy bill now containing a 40% increase in fuel economy requirements by 2020; an increase in the renewable fuel standard to 36 billion gallons ... Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:41:56 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/948865?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/938252?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Ford president and CEO Alan Mulally outlined the company s plan for a range of near-, medium- and long-term global environmental technologies to provide customers more fuel-efficient vehicles that emit fewer greenhouse... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:35:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/938252?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/937701?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles I've been writing about fuel ethanol since I started this blog in 2004, and I've been following it for just shy of 25 years. If there was ever a time for a critical reexamination of our national ethanol policy, it is now. Despite a broad array of fed... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:17:18 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/937701?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/911946?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded certification for the first time to an automobile conversion kit that allows non-flexible fuel vehicles to safely and efficiently run on E85: the Flex-Box Smart Kit from Flex Fuel US. The first... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:15:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/911946?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/871259?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles VeraSun Energy Corporation, one of the US largest ethanol producers, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the largest rental car company in North America, will work collaboratively to promote the use of VE85, VeraSun s branded E85, in Enterprise s Flexi... Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:00:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/871259?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/862625?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles GM and VeraSun Energy announced the opening of the first retail pump for VE85, VeraSun s branded E85 ethanol, in Washington, D.C. Concurrently, Enterprise Rent-A-Car designated its premier rental location in Washington, D.C. as an official E85/F... Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:30:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/862625?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/861521?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles Of all the provisions of the Senate energy bill that were debated over the last several weeks, the greatly expanded mandate for renewable fuels was probably the least controversial. It increases the amount of renewable fuel--chiefly ethanol--that fu... Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:44:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/861521?rsstype=tag&tag=flexible-fuel-vehicles