Malawi adds E100 vehicles to pilot biofuels conversion trials

In Malawi, the national government is now supporting two pilot biofuels projects to reduce the drain on foreign exchange from fossil fuel purchases. In addition to a flex-fuel program involving the Mitsubishi-Pajero, the govenrment is now supporting a project that will manually convert cars to ethanol or gasoline. The flexfuel project resulted in a loss of 28 percent in fuel economy but overall reduction in cost due to the lower cost of ethanol. Project cost of $1 million is underwritten by the national government.

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