göinge skrev:
Since car manufacture's sites always are fancy rather than functional I always try to find the broschure to each model as a pdf-file. Here are they proving that Renault Mégane (5-door and sport tourer) is available with ethanol engine:
http://www.renault.se/header/broschyrer ... SE-BD2.pdf (motor types on page 19)
Yes it appears in the above mentionned PDF file ... But ... because there is a "but", the configurator states only "bensin" in
http://www.renault.se/bilar/personbilar ... kationer/# So, which element is the correct one, the pdf or the Megane description in renault.se
In between, I asked the Agricultural Ethanol Consortium in France with the following question "why is there now so few native E85 cars for sale although there was a total of 7000 native E85 cars (mainly Dacia and Renault) sold in 2012 versus only 10 in May2013 and 6 in June 2013?"
I got the following answer sic in French "En ce qui concerne la disparition des flex-fuel autre que le Grand Cherokee, il s’agit d’une erreur dans le règlement sur les émissions de polluants qui considérait l’éthanol comme un hydrocarbone. Cela rendait extrêmement difficile le passage des limites d’émissions d’hydrocarbones notamment pour les tests à -7°C. Des actions sont en cours pour faire modifier cela. Un nouveau véhicule flex-fuel va bientôt revenir sur le marché en France et en Europe."
whose translation reads
" With the exception of the Grand Cherokee, there is no more Flex fuel for sale because of a remaining error in the European pollutant regulation which considers ethanol as any hydrocarbon ... All that leads the tests to be performed at -7°C extremely difficult to be successful ... but actions are underway to have this regulation modified. Consequently, new flexfuel vehicles should be re-introduced in France and in Europe soon"
As a follow up, I saked the Agricultural Ethanol Consortium in France with the following question
" Great, but then how do you explain that the Dacia Duster 4x2 1L6 16V, one of the best E85 car sale in 2012 in France is still on sale in Sweden as indicated by
http://www.dacia.se/sv/modeller/duster/ ... ifikation/ and not in France ?"
And the answer is
sic "Après vérification avec Dacia Sweden via mes homologues suédois, il s’agit d’une erreur sur le site web de Dacia… malheureusement !!"
which translates
"after crosschecking the information with my Swedish colleagues, it is an error ... the mentionned Swedish Dacia web site has not been correctly updated ... unfortunately!!"