Filed under: Ethanol, South/Latin America
Come next May, the public transit system in Sao Paulo, Brazil will be a bit greener thanks to the addition of 50 Scania buses designed to run on pure ethanol. The people haulers are part of the first wave of an initial fleet of 200 ethanol-fueled buses. Sao Paulo operates more than 15,000 public transport buses and has set its sights on converting each and every one of them to renewable fuel models by 2018. With biogas in limited supply, ethanol will likely the dominant biofuel used in the buses. For Scania Group, the only manufacturer of heavy-duty buses with ethanol-powered engines, this must be music to the company's ears.Melker Jernberg, senior vice president and head of buses and coaches at Scania Brazil, details ethanol's role as a renewable fuel source, stating:
[Source: Scania Group]The use of ethanol as a vehicle fuel is the best example of what can be done here and now in sustainable development work. Ethanol accounts for 90 percent of the renewable fuel available in the world. By delivering ethanol buses to São Paulo, Scania is helping to strengthen Brazil's leading position in reducing climate impact.
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