Breakthrough Ethanol Technology
Within five years, General Motors and renewable energy company Coskata Inc. will establish a commercial-scale plant with the capability to produce up to 378,500 cubic meters of ethanol made from practically any renewable source, including garbage, old tires and plant waste for about half of today’s cost of producing gasoline.
The process generates up to 7.7 times the amount of energy used and reduces CO2 emissions by up to 84 percent compared with typical gasoline. The partnership builds on a quarter century of GM research into biofuels and is part of GM’s five-fold approach to providing energy alternatives for automobiles. These include continued efforts in making fuel-efficient engines; E85 ethanol; hybrids; electrically driven vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.
Within five years, General Motors and renewable energy company Coskata Inc. will establish a commercial-scale plant with the capability to produce up to 378,500 cubic meters of ethanol made from practically any renewable source, including garbage, old tires and plant waste for about half of today’s cost of producing gasoline.
The process generates up to 7.7 times the amount of energy used and reduces CO2 emissions by up to 84 percent compared with typical gasoline. The partnership builds on a quarter century of GM research into biofuels and is part of GM’s five-fold approach to providing energy alternatives for automobiles. These include continued efforts in making fuel-efficient engines; E85 ethanol; hybrids; electrically driven vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.
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