Flexible Fuel Vehicle

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-011227",
  "term": "Flexible Fuel Vehicle",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Flexible fuel vehicles have a single fuel system to handle alternative and petroleum-based fuels.\n\n2. A vehicle that can operate on 1. alternative fuels (such as M85 or E85) 2.100-percent petroleum-based fuels 3. any mixture of an alternative fuel (or fuels) and a petroleum-based fuel. Flexible fuel vehicles have a single fuel system to handle alternative and petroleum-based fuels. Flexible fuel vehicle and variable fuel vehicle are synonymous terms.\n\n3. Any motor vehicle (or motor vehicle engine) engineered and designed to be operated on any mixture of two or more different fuels. [40 CFR 88.102-94 (CFR 2013)]\n\n4. Any motor vehicle engineered and designed to be operated on a petroleum fuel and on a methanol or ethanol fuel, or any mixture of the petroleum fuel and methanol or ethanol. Methanol-fueled and ethanol-fueled vehicles that are only marginally functional when using gasoline (e.g., the engine has a drop in rated horsepower of more than 80 percent) are not flexible fuel vehicles.",
  "references": [
    "DOT Energy Information Administration Glossary",
    "40 CFR 86.090-2 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 86.1803-01 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/flexible-fuel-vehicle/"
}