PRESS | Nearly all Volkswagen vehicles can use the planned E10 fuel
Wolfsburg, 08 February 2008 - With only a few exceptions, all Volkswagen-brand vehicles can run on the planned E10 fuel. For Volkswagen customers, the use of this new fuel, which, according to new legislation, may contain up to 10% ethanol in the future, will present no problem. According to plans of the federal government in Germany, this new type of fuel is to be offered at filling stations beginning 1 January, 2009.
The new fuel types “normal E10″ and “super E10″ are not suitable for vehicles having first-generation FSI engines. This affects a few Lupo, Polo, Golf, Bora and Touran models built between 2000 and 2004, and in individual cases to 2006. These vehicles must be filled with the type “super plus E5.”
The reason for this is that parts which transport fuel, in particular the high-pressure fuel pumps and fuel rails of these engines, may fail if the new E10 fuel types are used. However, owners of these vehicles will not be disadvantaged because these cars were intended to use predominantly super plus fuels.
PRESS RELEASE (Source: Volkswagen)
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Must be cheaper.. Now days every country is trying to reduce fuel consumption. New techs and alternative sources is slwys
welcomed.
I don’t see E10 being any cheaper in the United States than regular fuel. In the big corn producing states there are already a few gas stations offering E10 and the price is very comparable, but often a few pennies more expensive. I guess it is due to infrastructure just not being there yet!
Totally new concept. New cars, new types of fuels. I just wonder about the price of the E10 fuel.