Dream Come True, Says Nitin Gadkari As He Launches Car That Runs Both On Fuel, Electricity

Launching India's first car with a flex-fuel engine, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said it was a dream come true.

Nitin Gadkari has launched India's first electric car with a flex-fuel engine ( Image Source :Twitter )

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has launched India's first car with a flex-fuel engine which would run on petrol, blended ethanol and electric power. Gadkari tweeted saying that it was dream-come-true moment.

He tweeted, "Today our dream has come true...! Launched India’s first Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) which would run on 100% petrol as well as 20 to 100% blended ethanol and electric powertain with..."

Today our dream has come true...!
Launched India’s first Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) which would run on 100% petrol as well as 20 to 100% blended ethanol and electric powertain with... pic.twitter.com/QmsrnXD1Qx

— Nitin Gadkari (@nitin_gadkari) October 11, 2022

Nitin Gadkari for long has been vocal about the benefits of flex-fuel cars and has urged car-makers to develop them a long time back. A flex-fuel engine basically can run on more than one type of fuel in petrol along with ethanol. This type of engine is also able to run on either 100 per cent petrol or ethanol. Flex-fuel engines are very popular in other countries too like Brazil.

The advantage of this type of engine is flexible usage where you can switch from pure petrol to ethanol. It is also a cleaner fuel along with being much cheaper too than pure petrol. The performance of flex-fuels is also similar to petrol engines hence, unlike a CNG, the performance does not go down.

This will help reduce emissions as well dependence on petrol or diesel along with making motoring cheaper too. A flex-fuel engine is not different from a regular petrol engine with minor changes to components like the fuel pump etc.

However, we are still yet to get regulations regarding this and more details but next year onwards we can expect some more car-makers to also show flex-fuel cars. Ethanol-blended gasoline would be available in some parts of the country from 2023 onwards too while a nationwide rollout will happen a few years later.