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E20 Petrol Rollout in India

 Dear Readers

        Hope you all are doing well!

        Some of us are concerned about the rollout of E20 petrol earlier this year. Essentially, E20 rollout is an attempt to reduce the oil import considerably. Before this rollout, we all used E10 which is nothing but a mixture of 10% of Ethanol and 90% Petrol.        


        It is needless to say E20 increases Ethanol content from 10% to 20%. A group of automobile companies had a joint press conference recently to clarify the doubts that circulate between customers across the country.

        A minor decrease in fuel efficiency has been noticed in both two-wheeler and four-wheeler segments. Vehicles compatible with E20 fuel are being delivered from 2023 which also means Vehicles manufactured before that are supposed to have this fuel efficiency decrease.

        The biggest benefit here is that it has significantly reduced the oil import cost by 1.25 Lakh crores annually. I hope there will be aftermarket equipment\kit\package to make the old vehicles compatible with E20 fuel soon.

        Since it is a change to the petrol used in vehicles, components that are dealing with fuel such as fuel tank, carburetor, fuel pipe, etc are impacted. 

        I am a fan of Honda engines as I have BS3 Shine since 2013. I happened to read one article in which I saw a person in a foreign country drove the Honda car more than 10 lakh kilometers and made a request to replace the current speedometer with latest one to display the Odo readings greater than 10 lakhs. Surprisingly, Honda denied that request.

        Honda is the only car company in India to have released a statement which tells all the Honda cars manufactured after 2009 are E20 compatible. 

        https://www.hondacarindia.com/press-release/achieves-e20-compliance-across-its-product-range-towards-a-sustainable-future

        This statement clearly indicates that they are ahead of time. They predicted this change a decade ago and started manufacturing e20 vehicles. Our sincere thanks to Honda for its innovation and proactive strategy. Notably, other Japanese manufacturers such as Suzuki, Toyota and Nissan have not said that so far. Let's hope for the best.

        Recent Tata cars have this E20 label in the fuel lid.

        Thanks for reading! 

        

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