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 ...

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

Remember that old joke about imports being “powered by rice.” Well, what if that was literally true? What if their cars ran on fermented and distilled rice spirits? In the United States, we don’t have ...

The future of the world depends on humans stopping, and hopefully reversing, the damage we’ve caused to Earth by mining and using fossil fuels. Innovators and scientists have scrambled for decades to ...

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 ...

On the surface, Flex Fuel sounds like a great idea. Certain cars that are designed for it can run on a variety of blends of gasoline and ethanol. OK, we all know gasoline, but what is ethanol then? It ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Thorntons Inc. recently opened nine new flex-fuel pumps at its convenience stores in five Indiana counties, offering drivers of flex-fuel vehicles more options when it comes to ...

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 ...