Fuel What Matters ETHANOL : E85 15% 85% ? American Made In 2013 US Ethanol Production Created: 386,781 Despite the name, E85 is actually a gasoline-ethanol mixture with 51-83% ethanol by volume depending on the geographic region Clean Burning Renewable 2012 Ethanol use reduced greenhouse gas emissions by The majority of ethanol today comes from corn. 33.4 MILLION TONS JOBS That's like removing X 5.2 million $31Bil 5 plants in the US make ethanol from grasses, forestry and ag waste products, etc. household INCOME from the road for one year WHERE CAN I GET A FFV? - Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) can run on E85 or E10/gasoline...or anything in between! Some FFVs have a yellow fuel cap (left), and some have a badge like this one (right) near the bumper. Flex Fuel Vehicle Sales In 2014 about 25% of new cars sold in the US were FFVs - There are more FFVs to choose from than ever before...in fact, you may even be driving one already! - FFV Guide is available at: www.cleantransportation.org > Ethanol As of July 2014, there were almost 530,000 FFVs registered in NC WHERE CAN I FUEL MY FFV? ***FFVs can use gasoline, E10, E15, or E85*** But if you want to use the highest ethanol blend - E85 - you can visit any of the 11 publicly accessible E85 stations in North Carolina. Locate stations and plan routes while you're on the go with the FlexFinder App. Available on the App Store and GooglePlay. CAN I GET E85 AT MY LOCAL GAS STATION? Maybe....IF you let them know you want it! Let your local gas station owner know that if they provided it, you would buy E85 from them to fuel your FFV. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT E85 AND OTHER ALT FUELS.... ALT FUELS.... /NCCleanTech @NCCleanTech /NCCleanTech /NCCleanTech #FuelWhatMatters www.cleantransportation.org (RE) SOURCES http://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ethanol-Vehicle-Overview.pdf http://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ethanol-Station-Guidelines.pdf http://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ethanol-Retail-Stations-in-North-Carolina.pdf http://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/E85-Flex-Fuel-Vehicle_March-2014.pdf http://www.ethanolrfa.org/pages/rfa-poc ket-guide-to-ethanol https://www.freevec tormaps.c om/united-states/north-c arolina/US-NC-EPS-01-0001 http://nc c leantec h.nc su.edu/wp-c ontent/uploads/E85-Chapter.pdf http://www.ethanolrfa.org/bio-refinery-loc ations/ http://www.ethanolretailer.c om/flex-fuel-station-finder/ Prepared b y the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center (NC State University), with support from the US Department of Energy as part of the Alternative Fuels Implementation Team project