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Visitors to the Eden
Project's Sexy Green Car Show will see vehicles spanning Ford's rich
biofuel heritage – a 1920s Ford Model T, the latest Ford Focus flexifuel
vehicles and a Formula Ford racing car.
All these can be driven
on bioethanol, a renewable transport fuel which is produced from
UK-grown crops and which offers technologically the easiest move towards
carbon neutral motoring.
In 1916 Ford Motor
Company's visionary founder Henry Ford said: "All the world is waiting
for a substitute for petrol. The day is not far distant when, for every
one of those barrels of petrol, a barrel of ethanol must be
substituted." He went on to design the first Model T to run on ethanol,
or grain alcohol, believing then that oil-based transport fuels did not
have a long-term future.
In 2005, Ford was the
first manufacturer to market a bioethanol-powered car in Britain. Ford
Flexible Fuel Vehicles are capable of running on bioethanol where
available or petrol in any mix in the same fuel tank. To date the
company has supplied 165 Ford Focus FFVs, mainly to fleets located close
to the country's 14 bioethanol pumps such as Avon & Somerset Police, the
Environment Agency and National Farmers' Union.
Ford's FFV vehicles are
priced the same as their petrol-only equivalents – from £14,345 for the
Focus and £14,795 for the C-MAX FFV introduced last year. Research by
Imperial College, London, puts Ford FFV emissions at 99.6g/km when CO2
absorption by crops grown to make bioethanol is factored in – lower than
comparable vehicles using hybrid technology.
Dirk Dens, Ford's
European Flexible Fuel Vehicle sales and marketing manager, said: "The
Eden Project is the ideal venue for the launch of Britain's biggest
green car show. This event recognises the public's increasing interest
in alternative fuel technology and Ford is showcasing bioethanol-capable
Fords spanning 80 years for road and track."
Eden Project's Sexy
Green Car Show runs from March 30 to April 15.
www.edenproject.com
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