Sugar-Cane Cars Are Beating EVs in Brazil
Toyota, Volkswagen, and Stellantis like flex-fuel ethanol cars over EVs in Brazil.
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Toyota, Volkswagen, and Stellantis like flex-fuel ethanol cars over EVs in Brazil.
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Politicians, Big Ag, and major automakers like Toyota and Volkswagen are all conspiring in Brazil to maintain ethanol’s lead at the expense of EVs. Brazil’s flexible-fuel cars, which can run on a mix of ethanol and gasoline, have long been the most popular vehicles on the market, but these “sugar-cane cars” are threatening the adoption of fully-electric cars in the South American country, as Bloomberg reports. And despite the popularity of flex-fuel ethanol cars, it’s not all necessarily in the