BEST program E95 trial bus operating in São Paulo, Brazil.

BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport (BEST) is a project financially supported by the European Union for promoting the introduction and market penetration of bioethanol as a vehicle fuel, and the introduction and wider use of flexible-fuel vehicles and ethanol cars on the world market. The project began in 2006 and will continue until the end of 2009, and has nine participating regions or cities in Europe, Brazil, and China.

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Goals


Prsident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden inspecting one of the 400 buses running on E95 on Stockholm.

The BEST project targets include the introduction of more than 10,000 flex-fuel or ethanol cars and 160 ethanol buses; promote the opening of 135 E85 and 13 E95 public fuel stations; and to promote the development and testing of low ethanol blends with gasoline and diesel.

Participants

There are nine participating cities or regions and several commercial partners. Stockholm (Sweden) is the coordinating city, and other participants are Basque Country and Madrid (Spain), the Biofuel Region in Sweden, Brandenburg (Denmark), La Spezia (Italy), Nanyang (China), Rotterdam (Netherlands), São Paulo (Brazil), and Somerset (UK). The commercial partners are Ford Europe, Saab Automobile and several bioethanol suppliers.

Implemented projects

Under the auspices of the BEST project, the first E95 bus began operations in São Paulo city on December 2007 as a trial project.

References

  1. ^ “BEST Targets”. BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport. Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
  2. ^ “About BEST:”. BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport. Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
  3. ^ “Começa a circular em São Paulo ônibus movido a etanol” (in Portuguese). Estado de São Paulo. Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
  4. ^ “São Paulo joins EU’s BEST project with pure ethanol bus trial; over 400 in operation so far”. Biopact (2008-01-31). Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
  5. ^ “Sao Paulo Puts Ethanol Bus into Service in BEST Project”. Green Car Congress (2007-12-23). Retrieved on 2008-11-22.

External links

BEST home website

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Biofuels

Algae fuel • Bagasse • Babassu oil • Biobutanol • Biodiesel • Biogas • Biogasoline • Cellulosic ethanol • Ethanol fuel • Vegetable oil

Energy crops

Chinese tallow • Hemp • Maize • Rapeseed • Sorghum bicolor • Soybean • Stover • Straw • Sugarcane • Sunflower

Non food energy crops

Arundo • Energy crop • Energy forestry • Jatropha curcas • Miscanthus giganteus • Switchgrass • Wood fuel

Technology

Bioconversion • Biomass heating systems • Biorefinery • Fischer-Tropsch process • Industrial biotechnology • Pellet mill • Pellet stove • Thermal depolymerization

Concepts

Cellulosic ethanol commercialization • Energy content of biofuel • EROEI • Food vs fuel • Sustainable biofuel

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioEthanol_for_Sustainable_Transport”
Categories: Ethanol fuel | Flexible-fuel vehicles | Sustainable transport


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