You may have been doing some online vehicle browsing, been looking through your vehicle's owner's manual, or maybe you have just looked at your fuel cap door and noticed that there is something ...

Flex-fuel vehicles started to become popular in the mid-1990s. Manufacturers designed these vehicles to burn E85 or other gas-biofuel blends. Many people are confused about what E85 is used for. This ...

Did you know Henry Ford's iconic Model T, built from 1908 to 1927, featured carburetor jets that could be adjusted to let the engine run on gasoline, ethanol, or a mix of the two? Yes, that capability ...

In the interest of keeping gas engines alive, many automakers, scientists and other automotive businesses are working hard to ...

If you’ve been hanging around the car scene in the last couple decades, you’d have heard about E85. Some deride it as mere “corn juice,” while others tout it as a magical performance elixir. The ...

E20 and ethanol-blended fuel as a topic has been widely discussed on public forums in the past couple of weeks. Several people across the country have reported drop in mileage and performance ever ...

Ethanol-the fuel distilled from corn instead of crude oil-is a controversial topic in political circles these days. It seems to hit every hot button in public policy, from global warming to farm ...

A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) is a vehicle with an internal combustion engine capable of operating on a mixture of fuels, typically gasoline and ethanol. Though it's possible to design a flex-fuel ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...