Having said that E95 is probably ok to run in vehicles that are being used regularly, and not being stored wih E95 in the tank, but you have to remember to fill with non ethanol fuel before any period of non-use.
Can you actually buy E95 and are there any cars that can safely use it?
E85 does seem to exist but production cars don't seem to be able to use it. Looks like there are 5 places that sell it in the UK.
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Not using the new sweepings up stuff in our Forester.
Mower wise, after spending nearly £100 getting our Hayter (fings aint wot they used to be there either, my dad swore by them in the 60's) fully serviced and sharpened last spring by the end of last year and using what is supposed to be proper petrol we had non starting issues once again, didn't have these issues in years gone by but the last 3 or 4 years carb clogging has been a headache.
Gave up on the Hayter and bought a Dewalt battery driven jobbie, bought in November and gave the grass its final cut with the new purchase, soaking wet, where the Hayter would clog up unless the grass was bone dry requiring clearing out often a dozen times the Dewalt went straight through it.
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‘Not using the new sweepings up stuff in our Forester.
Mower wise, after spending nearly £100 getting our Hayter (fings aint wot they used to be there either, my dad swore by them in the 60's) fully serviced and sharpened last spring by the end of last year and using what is supposed to be proper petrol we had non starting issues once again, didn't have these issues in years gone by but the last 3 or 4 years carb clogging has been a headache.
Gave up on the Hayter and bought a Dewalt battery driven jobbie, bought in November and gave the grass its final cut with the new purchase, soaking wet, where the Hayter would clog up unless the grass was bone dry requiring clearing out often a dozen times the Dewalt went straight through it.’
The advantage of EV over ICE….).
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’ The advantage of EV over ICE….).
They're OK until you want to cut big lawns, then you need bigger batteries and it becomes expensive, just like EV's.
If a car is being used regularly, then ethanol is not a problem. It's when it's been unused for a long time. Isn't that the same with old classics and straight petrol though?
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They're OK until you want to cut big lawns, then you need bigger batteries and it becomes expensive, just like EV's.
It uses a pair of 5ah batteries, can complete our grass on one charge but i have a second pair if needs be.
Can't believe how good the thing is compared to my not that old Hayter, wherein i dare say is the issue, my dad who was a professional swore by Hayter, and Ransomes for the larger ride on superwide mowers, all i've done since buying this Hayter recycler is swear at it.
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They're OK until you want to cut big lawns, then you need bigger batteries and it becomes expensive, just like EV's.
It uses a pair of 5ah batteries, can complete our grass on one charge but i have a second pair if needs be.
Can't believe how good the thing is compared to my not that old Hayter, wherein i dare say is the issue, my dad who was a professional swore by Hayter, and Ransomes for the larger ride on superwide mowers, all i've done since buying this Hayter recycler is swear at it.
It makes sense if you have the batteries and charger already for other tools.
The Hayters I used to use at work were never good at picking up wet grass. The decks design doesn't seem to be good for high airflow which is important. Maybe they are constrained by the fact they use alloy, I don't know, but they haven't changed much. Cloth bags also get clogged up quickly which reduces airflow still further. They never started easily when warm, and is was a heavy, long throw pull start. I have an Al-ko with a plastic grass box and it throws the wet cuttings to the back of the box, deck design is deep and designed for airflow, so it's very good.
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’ The advantage of EV over ICE….).
They're OK until you want to cut big lawns, then you need bigger batteries and it becomes expensive, just like EV's.
They're OK until the battery fails and refuses to recharge, like my pricey (because of the battery) Bosch rotary - lasted a mere 4yrs. Only advantages were easy starting and light weight, bought mainly for Mrs F in case I was incapacitated. Back to the decades old Mountfield Empress, supplemented by my inherited 1960s vintage Atco 17 cylinder mower.
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Having said that E95 is probably ok to run in vehicles that are being used regularly, and not being stored with E95 in the tank, but you have to remember to fill with non ethanol fuel before any period of non-use.
Can you actually buy E95 and are there any cars that can safely use it?
E85 does seem to exist but production cars don't seem to be able to use it. Looks like there are 5 places that sell it in the UK.
Shell V power has a maximum of 5% ethanol, its readily available, I've run the car on it for years with no problems.
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Read somewhere that Esso superunleaded has the least amount of ethanol of all fuels.
Must say that I haven’t seen many garden contractors using battery mowers!
Are diesel engines less vulnerable to the 7% of ethanol that is added ?
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Read somewhere that Esso superunleaded has the least amount of ethanol of all fuels.
Must say that I haven’t seen many garden contractors using battery mowers!
Are diesel engines less vulnerable to the 7% of ethanol that is added ?
Ethanol is added to petrol not diesel. Diesel fuel doesn't deteriorate like petrol, unless it gets infected with the diesel bug.
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I presumed focussed meant E10 when he said E95.
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I presumed focussed meant E10 when he said E95.
Sorry I got mixed up with the E numbers.
In France we have:-
SP 98 (E5) (Up to 5% ethanol - most outlets here are ethanol free.
Total Excellium 98 is definitely ethanol free at least where I buy mine from.
SP 95 (E10)
SP 95 (E5)
and E85 (E85) Only for flex -fuel enabled vehicles, approved aftermarket kits are available.
(E85 is really cheap 84 cents a litre but 25% less mileage per litre).
SP means "sans plomb" without lead - unleaded.
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‘’ It doesn’t take too long on Google to find out that the adoption of E10 has the potential to cut CO2 emissions by 750,000 tons per year just in the UK, despite an increase in fuel usage because it’s less energy dense. But it’s not what we’ve always done, so it must be virtue signaling, probably woke, nonsense.
750,000 tonnes? Where on earth did you get that figure from?
It didn't take me long to find that the alleged reduction of CO2 by the use of ethanol in petrol has largely been officially debunked, by no less a body than the EEA Science committee.
A 2011 opinion from the Science Committee of the European Environment Agency pointed out what it called a “serious accounting error.” The carbon neutral concept does not consider vegetation that would naturally grow on land used for biofuel production. Since biofuels are less efficient than gasoline or diesel fuel, they actually emit more CO2 per mile driven than hydrocarbon fuels, when proper accounting is used for carbon sequestered in natural vegetation.
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The carbon neutral concept does not consider vegetation that would naturally grow on land used for biofuel production. Since biofuels are less efficient than gasoline or diesel fuel, they actually emit more CO2 per mile driven than hydrocarbon fuels, when proper accounting is used for carbon sequestered in natural vegetation.
The observation that biofuels are less efficient per mile may be correct, but only a partial truth.
The carbon released by biofuels when they are burnt is offset by the carbon sequestered in growing crops. Even if biofuels are not replanted, the land will absorb carbon in the growth of weeds and trees, probably within a year or two.
By contrast burning fossil fuels is offsetting the carbon absorbed 1-200m years ago - it would be absurd to connect events so distant.
Thus the net carbon produced by biofuels is somewhere from zero assuming bio based planting, fertilisation, harvesting and refining and should be compared with the total emissions from fossil fuels..
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<< Thus the net carbon produced by biofuels is somewhere from zero assuming bio based planting, fertilisation, harvesting and refining and should be compared with the total emissions from fossil fuels. >>
Absolutely right. If this offsetting notion (a realistically impossible one, probably dreamt up by some sort of accountant) is to be done, it has to be done thoroughly, not selectively. Most of the figures on both sides of the account can only be estimated roughly, so I'm afraid a good dose of common sense is called for (whatever that is).
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