GM Holden Backs Ethanol Production

GM Holden is playing its part in ensuring there is sufficient infrastructure and ethanol supplies to fuel its new E85-powered models in Australia, as it joins forces with US-based Coskata to build a cellulosic ethanol plant. GM Holden intends to launch a version of its Commodore sedan that runs on E85 - an 85:15 ratio of ethanol to petrol - by 2010 and has entered into talks with Coskata to build its first ethanol plant outside of the US. By producing cellulosic ethanol, which is made from waste materials such as wood chippings and grass cuttings, the plant will avoid

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