Classic Car Weekly  |  1st August 2018
E10 FUEL SHOULD NOT BE FORCED ON CLASSIC CARS
Today, Sir Greg Knight MP joined calls to keep Britain’s forecourts stocked with low-ethanol fuel in order to keep historic vehicles on the road. The Department for Transport (DfT) is currently holding an open consultation on ethanol fuel as it establishes the best way to comply with the EU Fuel Quality Directive. To comply, it needs to up the target ethanol content in petrol from its current level of 7.25 per cent to ten per cent by 2020. The ethanol content in ‘regular’ 95-octane unleaded petrol has been five per cent since 2013. The response from Sir Greg, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Historic Vehicles Group, comes as E10 fuel – so-called because ten per cent of its volume is blended from bio-ethanol – poses an even greater fi re risk to classics than fuel currently available.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Classic Car Weekly 1st August 2018.