Gadkari Urges Car Manufacturers To Make Flex Engines Indigenously For Better Use Of Alternative Fuels by Swarajya Staff - Mar 3, 2021 06:21 AM Union Minister Nitin Gadkari (Photo by Shekhar Yadav/India Today Group/Getty Images) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and MSME Nitin Gadkari has urged car manufacturers to give priority to the indigenous production of flex engines, which can be used in vehicles using alternative fuels such as ethanol. Meeting a delegation of carmakers from the Society of India Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Tuesday (02 February), the Minister said that, with ethanol beginning to be easily available in the country, and more than 70 per cent of gasoline consumption being done by two-wheelers, there is a need to develop indigenous technology for flex fuel vehicles.