Oct 8 2010
PSA Peugeot Citroën, a car manufacturer in France and the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats d'Exploitants Agricoles (FNSEA), are currently locked in discussions for the joint development of biofuels that can meet the requirements of the European Union directive on achieving the renewable energy usage target of 10% non fossil fuel usage by the year 2020.
The partners have agreed to develop bioethanol and biodiesel with high performance features to meet the set target. The new fuels will have a 10% of a bio-blend and will help in reducing CO2 emissions. It is estimated that the usage of new biofuel in all the vehicles manufactured by Peugeot and Citroën alone will bring down carbon emissions by 800,000 tonnes a year.
The FNSEA while supporting the issue of biofuel also affirmed that both France and other European countries have enough agricultural produce to use for biofuel solutions without upsetting the food supply process both for domestic consumption and for exporting it to other countries. Similarly PSA Peugeot Citroën corroborated its obligation for the use of biofuels thus making it easy for the group to proceed with their attempts to have pollution free vehicles. The group reiterated the significance of completing the B10, a 10% biofuel blend process quickly because of the high level use of diesel in Europe and the increased positive benefit the blend can offer to reduce CO2 emissions.
PSA Peugeot Citroën assures that all its diesel engine cars including e-HDi micro-hybrid and HYbrid4 technologies cars that are to be introduced in the market are tuned to use 30% of biofuel mix fuels. The company also informs that its earlier version of cars that are manufactured from the year 2000 can efficiently function with SP95-E10 a 10% ethanol mix and announced that the company is actively working to improve the percentage to 15% with its E15 engines.
Source: http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com