{"id":404065,"date":"2010-03-08T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T19:52:39","slug":"brazil%e2%80%99s-10-millionth-ethanol-flex-fuel-vehicle-hits-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404065","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s 10 Millionth Ethanol Flex-Fuel Vehicle Hits the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5713 aligncenter\" title=\"Brazil_Sugarcane_Field\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/03\/Brazil_Sugarcane_Field.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the world of alternative fuels, Brazilians are lucky. They have some of the best land and climate in the world with which to grow sugarcane&#8211;which they have proven is an excellent feedstock for first generation ethanol production.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it incredibly easy to convert the cane sugar into ethanol through fermentation, they can power much of their ethanol production by burning the material leftover after harvesting and crushing the sugarcane to extract the sweet liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago the Brazilian government realized the potential in this system and started encouraging a major shift to a transportation sector capable of running mostly on ethanol. And now the fruits of their labor are being borne out: The 10 millionth ethanol flex-fuel capable vehicle has been delivered in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/08\/brazils-10-millionth-ethanol-flex-fuel-vehicle-hits-the-road\/#more-5708\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=zlgy3aXcMMU:pV6QzpVKTgc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/zlgy3aXcMMU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of alternative fuels, Brazilians are lucky. They have some of the best land and climate in the world with which to grow sugarcane&#8211;which they have proven is an excellent feedstock for first generation ethanol production. Not only is it incredibly easy to convert the cane sugar into ethanol through fermentation, they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}