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The balance of Route E85: Diesel wins

Do you remember Route E85? It was a major trek around a few European countries driving exclusively Ford Flexifuel engines, running on ethanol, being compared side-to-side with regular gas and diesel counterparts. It was a total of 3,476 km (about 2,200 miles) across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France. Ford of France has shown the results and their big conclusion is that a Flexifuel engine is slightly more competitive in terms of cost than a gasoline counterpart but, from about 62,500 km on, buying a diesel is more cost-effective. To ... Read more →

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