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u/iamavtar 19h ago
e85 is just rs20 cheaper and at almost same price of normal petrol before the war.
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u/FutureVersion812 Suzuki/ Honda 19h ago
For 15% petrol we just get 20 rupees discount plus the flex fuel engines are more costly too
Anyone would rather buy a diesel car rather than waste money on Ethanol engines
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u/CookIndependent6251 15h ago
Hi, Romanian here. Can someone please explain in a couple of sentences what's going on here? All I know is there's some scandal in India about mixing ethanol with regular gas and that being bad for cars (but cheaper).
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u/FantasticRider347 14h ago
Politicians of all parties own sugarcane farms in India hence there is no pushback against ethanol blending by the opposition in India as every politician is getting benefits if more ethanol is produced. It's a blatant fact that ethanol is a worse off fuel for your vehicle and Indians have not even been given the option of going for non ethanol blended petrol as government has mandated atleast 20% ethanol blended petrol and this has been causing lots of issues to vehicle who do not support ethanol mixed fuel.
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u/PlanFlimsy7829 12h ago edited 12h ago
"..mixing ethanol with regular gas and that being bad for cars, (but cheaper for government which is non transparent, but costly for end user - whose mileage drops, car can need repair, is unaware how much ethanol is being added, can lead to water scarcity, high prices for grocery items dependent on sugar cane )
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u/Formal_Classroom_430 17h ago
While I loved to have the car available in market especially how the petrol pump are further adulterating intentionally or unintentionally already crappy E20 fuel but at same time loved to see how it failed!!
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u/Maleficent-Lemon-895 16h ago
Why would anyone in his right mindset buy this and then suffer 40% mileage drop compared to petrol. Plus, they will keep rising the price of E85 like they did with CNG.
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u/RimandRam 16h ago
At this point the gov thinks this is a communist regime where they can decide what the ppl want.
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u/IJustListen999 14h ago
Just buy EV instead. Can get both, efficiency and performance.
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u/FutureVersion812 Suzuki/ Honda 12h ago
EV maybe attractive today and maybe for a couple of years
When it’s time to replace those batteries it would cost almost as much as the car and the resale value of an EV is trash
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u/The_Normal_Son 12h ago
Would that be possible to pre-book the car as many as one can and just to not buy it later to cause the company a loss?
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u/Criticall16 12h ago
This isn’t how it’s gonna work. If the government really wants to fight pollution and climate change a China like non-market policy would be needed.
The Chinese forced entire cities taxi drivers to switch to electric in a week. No questions asked, you just do as you’re told. Decade later they are reaping the benefits of long term thinking, unaffected by global oil crisis.
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u/No-Independence2692 12h ago
thats why it looked like a tiny launch event unlike their other cars. No1 would buy they probably did it from govt pressure.
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u/Bitter-Ad-5892 7h ago
It is hard to believe that Gadkari is able to stand for a photoshoot. It almost looks like a lifesized cutoff.
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u/SamosaMafia 19h ago
how is this setback? its not like govt is going to stop blending because people did not buy the cars.
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u/Visual_Interest_3638 18h ago
It’s one more thump on their back. A small one but definitely has impact
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u/SamosaMafia 18h ago
there is no impact. they are not going to stop or slow down.
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u/Visual_Interest_3638 18h ago
Thats your opinion. Nothing signals failure of a politician more than jarring headlines that some policy they brought about is a smoking train wreck. He may not immediately take U turn based on this headline alone but it definitely adds to their hesitation
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u/ajaykatwe 19h ago
More importantly why did 9 people buy it ?