E85-Fueled Engine Cuts CO2 by Up to 80%, Cummins Says

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Originally Posted by elhigh

I was thinking more along the lines of E85 as an agricultural fuel. Keeping the ethanol use close to where it's generated cuts out a lot of infrastructural waste hauling it about, spillage etc. Of course the vast majority of existing ag engines are diesel, but the other thing I was thinking was repowering options for existing medium and small tractors, and post-purchase flexibility for the owners.

If you consider the usage of ethanol as an agricultural fuel, then it would make more sense to use it without gasoline blends. Anyway, it already happens at a smaller scale in Brazil where it's used in some heavy-duty trucks and farm machinery in the sugarcane plantations and around the sugar and ethanol mills, often in Diesel engines specifically modded to run on ethanol or alongside the regular Diesel fuel in a way similar to those dual-fuel setups used with Natural Gas.