Honda Motorbike & Scooters India has simply introduced at a global convention on Biofuels in Delhi that they’re going to make a flex-fuel bike – and the CEO, Atsushi Ogata, has even given us when the factor shall be debuted.
“The primary mannequin of the flexi-fuel bike shall be launched by the top of 2024,” states Ogata, protecting his playing cards shut on which mannequin shall be chosen for the mission.
The choice has been made with the information that ethanol – an natural compound presently experiencing a second Renaissance and a part of the cocktail of a flex-fuel bike – might be had for lower than pure gasoline.
This transfer is certainly one of many geared towards a cleaner, extra sustainable future – and it’ll mirror the successes of TVS’s flex gasoline engine Apache RTR 200 Fi E100, which was the primary ethanol-run machine to debut within the nation.
Right here’s the massive query, although; will ethanol change into a viable choice for bike markets within the Central and Western Hemispheres?
With ethanol presently often called the compound that eats away at rubber and creates a shorter-lived machine, time will inform – we must see what Honda decides earlier than a real opinion might be had on the topic.
Keep tuned for updates as they arrive down the pipeline, drop a remark under letting us know what you suppose, and as all the time – keep protected on the twisties.
