In the coming days, major changes will be seen in the engine of the car. In fact, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has told that he will issue an order in the next three to four months. In this order, all automakers will be made mandatory to manufacture vehicles with flex engine ie alternative fuel engine. For almost two years Nitin Gadkari had been appealing to car companies to make flex engines but it was not made mandatory. Now for the first time an order will be issued for such an engine.

What is Flex Engine: These are engines in which a mixture of petrol and ethanol or methanol can also be used. Currently, blending of up to 20 per cent ethanol in petrol is allowed in India. However, no changes have been made to the engine. Now if the amount of ethanol is increased, then necessary modification will have to be done in the engine also. This is the reason why Nitin Gadkari is asking car companies to change the engine.

Why was it needed? The government is turning to alternative fuels amid rising prices of petrol and diesel. In the past, Nitin Gadkari had told that there will be many benefits from this. Firstly, there will be reduction in pollution. At the same time, the second big advantage will be that there will be a fall in the import of crude oil. Explain that India imports more than 80 percent of crude oil.

Since it is traded in dollars, it also costs more foreign exchange. The government will also be able to cut this expenditure by reducing the import of crude oil. Apart from this, alternative fuel ethanol can also be manufactured in the country from the waste of sugarcane and maize.