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Shell and Virent will develop "biogasoline"

There's ethanol, a gasoline substitute/blending fuel, and then there's biogasoline. This relatively unknown plant-based fuel is the subject of research at a few different labs, including one at North Carolina State University that uses the Cetina process. Another group working on something more like traditional gasoline from biosources is made up of Shell and Wisconsin's Virent Energy Systems. The partnership announced last week that they will form "a joint research and development effort to convert plant sugars directly into gasoline and ... Read more →

Tokyo stations selling bio-ETBE shipped from France Sebastian Blanco

For the last two months, 50 fueling stations in the Toyko area have been marketing bio-gasoline, which is gasoline with some bio-ethyl tertiary butyl ether (bio-ETBE) blended in. Cost to the consumer ...

Shell and Virent will develop "biogasoline" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There's ethanol, a gasoline substitute/blending fuel, and then there's biogasoline. This relatively unknown plant-based fuel is the subject of research at a few different labs, including one at North Carolina State University that uses the Cetina process. Another group working on something more ...

Tokyo stations selling bio-ETBE shipped from France 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

For the last two months, 50 fueling stations in the Toyko area have been marketing bio-gasoline, which is gasoline with some bio-ethyl tertiary butyl ether (bio-ETBE) blended in. Cost to the consumer and how the fuel can be used are the same as with standard gasoline, and the environmental upshot ...


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