Can you legally run a car on pure ethanol in Australia?

Question

I want to run it for performance reasons it runs much the same as methanol. The fuel system and engine have to be built to handle it but you get heaps of cooling and more power. Not worried about the milage.

cheers people for your input.

Answer 1

if you can find some

Answer 2

I don't know whether you can or not, but why would you want to? Ethanol helps reduce emissions when blended with gasoline, but on its own is not a very efficient fuel. You'll need about 4 gallons of pure ethanol to travel the same distance you'd go on one gallon of a blend of 85% gasoline and 15% ethanol, and it'd just kill the performance of your vehicle. Pray for all downhill because you won't be going up hills very well at all.

Answer 3

it is very hard to get ahold of e100, for you could drink it than, thus the reason for e-98 un drinkable, an dont get taxed as drinkable alcohol, e-98 is about 110 octane, no reason to run pure e100 that 2% wont gain you anything, you only need 110 octane if you have at LEAST 12 to 1 or better compression ratio, other wise go with e-85, ran 9.5 to 1, v-8 race motors, an it prefered e-85 over the e-98, you are correct with the cooling properties, ethonal does run alot cooler than gas, this is in the U.S,

Answer 4

seems to remember on the year style of the motor vehicle. The wik reported this " positioned up-1988 gas-injected autos are designed to settle for E10 gas, and can be tolerant of better concentrations of ethanol to various tiers, many times as much as a minimum of 20% (coach me the evidence!!)" E10 = 10% ethanol. additionally " beginning up with the style year 1999, an increasing style of automobiles interior the international are synthetic with engines that could run on any gas from 0% ethanol as much as a hundred% ethanol with out replace."

Answer 5

As long as the the vehicle is "flex fuel" equipted then it is able to run partial or fully on E85 (ethynol) no matter what country or state you live in. Its been an approved alternative fuel for justabout the whole world. Its just not as readily available in most parts like petrol is.

Answer 6

You Can legally run ON pure ethanol in Australia !