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20 million flex-fuel vehicles and counting: Brazil’s love for ethanol

Brazil's 20 millionth flex fuel vehicle was sold in June 2013. Julian Semple looks at the country's love affair with ethanol

Brazil is one of the world’s top producers of ethanol, and the forecast for the 2012-2013 sugar cane crops is for a production of 24 billion litres of ethanol.

The production of ethanol-fuelled cars (E100) began in Brazil in the early 1980s. At that time, vehicles had either gasoline or ethanol

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