Why Pump For Fuel When You Can Grow It?
For the last eight years, Chevy has been producing vehicles capable of running on a fuel that grows primarily from the good earth and remembers its roots. E85 ethanol is a mostly renewable fuel source made primarily from U.S.-grown biomaterial. Today, that is mostly grain products. In the future, E85 will increasingly be made from agriculture, forest and municipal waste. It burns cleaner than gasoline and can help decrease our dependence on petroleum.
E85 is a biofuel consisting of 85% ethanol, 15% gasoline. E85 generally has a higher octane rating than gasoline, which can result in slightly higher horsepower and torque levels. There are over 2 million E85 FlexFuel Chevy vehicles on the road today, and we offer more E85 FlexFuel-capable vehicle choices than any other brand.
Here's our lineup: select models of Avalanche, Impala, HHR, Silverado, Suburban, Tahoe and Express can be equipped to take advantage of its benefits. Availability of E85 ethanol varies by state. But the good news is these FlexFuel vehicles can run on gasoline, E85, or a combination of both. And we've been instrumental in bringing E85 to more than 300 stations across the nation in the last three years.
“At GM, we believe that the biofuel with the greatest potential to displace petroleum–based fuels in the U.S. is ethanol.”
— Beth Lowery, GM Vice President of Environment, Energy and Safety Policy
