Be part of the Bio fuel bonanza (From Swindon Advertiser)

Be part of the Bio fuel bonanza

2:55pm Wednesday 20th September 2006

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CHEAPER motoring is high on the agenda for most motorists. Combine that with cleaner fuel and enhanced performance and you've got the dream car and that dream can turn to reality thanks to a local firm.

Green Fuels, based near Malmesbury in Wiltshire, is offering a large, matchbox-sized gizmo which changes an ordinary petrol-driven car into a clean one by converting it to run on bio-ethanol E85.

One end of the Fullflex Gold Bi-Fuel manager plugs into the vehicle's engine management unit, while the other is attached to the injectors.

Once fitted, which is an hour-long job for a garage, the vehicle can run on 100 per cent bio-ethanol E85, unleaded petrol or a mix of both.

The results are reduced emissions, cheaper fuel and a power boost.

Fullflex Gold Bi-fuel Manager has been used for the last 20 years in Brazil where sugar beet - used in the making of bio-ethanol - is plentiful.

Bio-ethanol is seen as the way forward towards more environmentally friendly motoring.

Both Ford and Saab have recently launched FlexiFuel cars, while more than 9,000 such vehicles have been sold in Scandinavia in the last few months.

And Morrisons supermarket chain is leading the way in the UK with bio-ethanol pumps on forecourts throughout the UK where the fuel is 2p per litre cheaper than premium unleaded.

The Fullflex Manager costs between £450 and £550, dependent on the number of cylinders, and is available from Green Fuels which is the sole distributor for the UK and the rest of Europe.

Contact Green Fuels on 01666 575002 or e-mail: info@greenfuels.co.uk

• Green Fuels, which started trading in 2004, has been at the forefront of establishing affordable and sustainable biodiesel technology in the UK and Europe and now has an installed processing capacity of over 50 million litres per annum.

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