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Ahead - USA - U.S. Automakers Stepping up Ethanol-Use Programs
NY,USA -USA Today -9 Feb 2006: General Motors and Ford Motor Co. are forming partnerships with energy companies on projects that could make ethanol a more mainstream fuel... The projects would work to make so-called E85 — a blend of 85% ethanol, an alcohol usually made from Midwest corn, and 15% gasoline — more of a mainstream fuel, the paper said in a front-page story... The automakers plan to plan to boost the number of U.S. E85 outlets; only about 500 of 180,000 gas stations now sell the alternate fuel... GM and Ford are ahead of Asian rivals in developing and marketing E85-compatible vehicles, called flex-fuel vehicles... About 5 million of the vehicles are already are on the roads, and Ford and GM plan to build another 600,000 this year...
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