Rajya Sabha MP and actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Friday raised concern on ethanol-blended fuels, its impact on vehicles, the withdrawal of E10 petrol, and consumer safeguards. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari clarified that extensive field trials on vehicles wit
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, on Monday said that ethanol-blended petrol does not adversely affect vehicles and dismissed claims of controversy surrounding the government's ethanol blending programme.
The number of retail outlets retailing 20 per cent ethanol-blended fuel is now at around 9,300 and it will cover the entire country by 2025, said Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri on Wednesday.
Public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) started selling E20 petrol in February 2023 and it is currently being sold at more than 1,900 retail outlets across the country, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Rameswar Teli, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
The Union minister underlined how India updated its 'Nationally Determined Contributions' in August 2022 and has embarked on far-reaching new initiatives in renewable energy, e-mobility, ethanol blended fuels, and green hydrogen as an alternate energy source