Hyperdrive
Your Regular Audi Could Run on Straw Soon
- Global Bioenergies looks to extract fuels from non-food crops
- Unlike ethanol, fuel works in any engine in high concentration
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A German luxury carmaker and a French biotech company have joined forces to solve the two big problems that have been holding back biofuels.
On a windy morning at a track near Paris this month, Audi AG started testing gasoline blended with 34 percent of a biofuel produced from sugar beet waste in one of its classic A4 sedans. Unlike ethanol, which requires special engines when used in large proportions, the new blend can work in any car engine without modification.