Bentley to Bring Flex-Fuel Model to Geneva Show
January 16, 2009 by admin
During the Detroit Auto Show this week, Bentley board member Stuart McCullough declared that the company would debut its first flex fuel car at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
McCullough also confirmed that the entire Bentley lineup will be flex-fuel capable by 2012. At last year’s Geneva Motor Show, Bentley declared it would get its fleet to the equivalent of 120 g/km of well-to-wheel CO2 emissions by 2012. One of the keys to that will be the use of biofuels, primarily ethanol.
Since all Bentleys are turbocharged, they should be well suited to running on the high octane ethanol. By tuning the engines for ethanol, Bentley may even be able to overcome most of the efficiency deficit that normally aspirated engines experience with ethanol.
Whether running on ethanol will really make enable a Bentley to get the equivalent of 120 g/km is hard to believe, but it does look like they are serious about becoming more efficient and giving their owners more options when the oil become more expensive than algae.
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