Extracted Data Points

  • India's first flex-fuel passenger vehicle launched by Maruti Suzuki
  • Flex-fuel vehicles can operate on ethanol-petrol blends from E20 up to E100
  • India has nearly 37 lakh passenger vehicles in the market
  • Before military hostilities began on February 28th, nearly 60% of India's LPG imports passed through the Strait of Hormuz
  • India increased domestic LPG production from 32 TMT per day pre-crisis to nearly 52 TMT per day
  • India recorded one of the lowest increases in fuel prices globally
  • Central excise duties on petrol and diesel reduced by ₹10 per litre
  • Ethanol blending increased from less than 1.5% in 2013-14 to 20% in 2025-26 (achieved 5 years ahead of schedule)
  • Ethanol procurement rose from 38 crore litres in ESY 2013-14 to more than 1,040 crore litres currently
  • Ethanol production capacity expanded from 421 crore litres in 2014 to ~2000 crore litres in 2026 (nearly five-fold increase)
  • If 50% of new two and four wheelers shift to flex fuel, it will create additional demand for 311.8 crore litres of ethanol
  • This shift would provide ₹12,403 crore additional income for farmers
  • This would lead to 66.4 lakh metric tonnes less CO₂ emissions
  • NITI Aayog classifies ethanol-based Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) as Zero-Emission Vehicles
  • E85 fuel produces near-zero particulate matter (PM) emissions
  • Roadmap proposes initial roll out of 50-100 FFV-ready fuel retail outlets in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai-Pune-Nagpur corridors
  • Plan to expand to nearly 500 outlets by December 2026
  • Target of approximately 5,000 outlets across major cities by end-2027
  • Hero MotoCorp recently launched Flex fuel motorcycles