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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 16/6/2021

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No doubt non E10 users will be charged a premium for the fuel that they have to use, although I see it as a positive that engines have been designed to run on E10 for at least the last ten years, so the transition will hardly cause any issues, all good in my book.

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 16/6/2021

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I'm still sticking to my diesel X Trail!
What gets me is that if every car owner switched to driving an electric-only car tomorrow, the result on emissions would be marginal. There are many other sources of emissions that are far worse than cars, including many forms of home heating and some power stations. A lot of industrial processes are quite "dirty" too.

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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 16/6/2021

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Yep in my area Manchester they are bringing in a “Clean Air Tax” they are not charging cars, just vans, lorries coaches etc, the area includes most of Greater Manchester, not sure I would be happy about that if I had a little van to commute to work and back each day, not all vans are used for commercial use, plenty of private motorists choose them over having a regular car, £10 per day is quite a hit to take.

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Quote: Originally posted by bessie500 on 16/6/2021

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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 16/6/2021

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I'm still sticking to my diesel X Trail!
What gets me is that if every car owner switched to driving an electric-only car tomorrow, the result on emissions would be marginal. There are many other sources of emissions that are far worse than cars, including many forms of home heating and some power stations. A lot of industrial processes are quite "dirty" too.

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Colin i saw on the news last week that the new ferry's for the Scilly islands are all to be electric hybrid.

Bessie

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Quote: Originally posted by Ancient Uncle on 16/6/2021

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We went through a somewhat similar situation when the change to unleaded took place. If I remember correctly, some cars could be modified to run on unleaded. but it was not possible on some old classics.

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Quote: Originally posted by daveyjp on 17/6/2021

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Whilst this is relevant to vehicles, most are unaffected,

This change also needs to be considered in light of other petrol engines, especially two stroke chainsaws, strimmers etc and petrol lawnmowers, Coleman fuel stoves etc.

These may not be designed for it and whilst it will still run the engine, if the fuel is left in the tank and carb for a length of time the ethanol may cause problems.

For little used engines they should be empited and ran until the fuel runs out after every use, or use a purer form of petrol, such a Coleman fuel.

For lawnmowers which are used more often in summer at the end of the season empty the tank and run dry.

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