Re:"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
by rbanffy on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @12:18PM
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After driving ethanol-running cars for more than 25 years, I must disagree. If you can't drive ethanol-running cars in your country, be assured it's not really a technical issue.
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Re:"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
by onemoreact on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @01:11PM
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I often fill up with 10% ethanol gas which most cars can burn just fine, but the entire world's supply of ethanol is not enough to replace 10% of total demand with ethanol. We throw away enough feed-stock in the US to double world wide ethanol production, but it's simply not cost effective process it yet.
PS: It's not that far off though the US accounts for ~44% of the world’s gasoline consumption, but it's would take ~57% of the world's ethanol to switch every gas pump in the US to 10% ethanol.