{"id":21558,"date":"2024-03-16T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:33:19","slug":"ethanol-100-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ethanol-100-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"ETHANOL 100 Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About ETHANOL 100 Fuel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0has high-octane rating, typically between 100-105.<\/li>\n<li>It proves ideal for high-performance engines, ensuring improved efficiency and power output all while minimizing environmental impact.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, ETHANOL 100\u2019s versatility shines through, as it can be used\u00a0in a wide array of vehicles, including flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) designed to run on gasoline,\u00a0ethanol, or any blend of the two.<\/li>\n<li>Its practicality and potential to become a mainstream fuel option with the right infrastructure in place.<\/li>\n<li>It includes 93-93.5 percent ethanol blended with 5 percent petrol and 1.5 percent co-solvent, which is a binder.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It stands as a cleaner, greener alternative to gasoline, boasting lower emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants, thus aiding in combating climate change and enhancing air quality in our communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are flex-fuel vehicles?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are designed to run on a variety of fuels.<\/li>\n<li>These are equipped with an internal combustion engine (ICE) which can run on petrol or ethanol or methanol, giving consumers choice at the point of sale of the fuel.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from a few modifications, flex fuel vehicles are similar to petrol-only cars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Octane number?<\/h3>\n<p>It is also called octane value or octane rating, is one of the critical measures of a gasoline&#8217;s performance. It is a measure of a fuel&#8217;s resistance to knock or to ignite prematurely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2015031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ETHANOL 100 fuel launched by Petroleum Minister Hardeep S Puri<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETHANOL 100 fuel has high-octane rating, typically between 100-105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}