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Dongfeng to complete ethanol vehicle production facilities by year-end
Shanghai. January 14 (Gasgoo.com) - China's Dongfeng Motor Corporation will complete the construction of its ethanol vehicle manufacturing facilities within this year, a project on which Dongfeng has spent 200 million Yuan ($27.5 million) in total. The project is part of local government efforts to push the use of higher-content ethanol gasoline, Xinhua News Agency reported today.
By the end of this year, Dongefeng is set to finish relevant facilities, including an engine design and experiment center, an assembly line and inspection line. Limited production of ethanol vehicles bearing Dongfeng's badge will start late this year.
The automaker announced later last year that its research on hydrous-ethanol engines has finished its initial stage. The first vehicle has been put into pilot use, which burns the fuel mixture containing 65 percent ethanol and save up to 60 percent of energy compared with those running on pure ethanol.
Dongfeng's endeavor on the ethanol gasoline is well in line with the local government policies. The Hubei province, where Dongfeng is headquartered, is reportedly to launch a pilot project, bolstering the use of high-purity ethanol gasoline--increase the current 10 percent ethanol content in gasoline to 65 percent.
Not only will high-purity ethanol gasoline save more than 900,000 tons of conventional gasoline a year, it will also boost the popularity of the flex-fuel automobile and new energy refining industries, said an unnamed official from Hubei Development and Reform Commission, the economy policy-making body under the provincial government.
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