Saab 9-5 BioPower promotes green
With the Saab BioPower 9-5 2.0t model, Swedish car brand Saab attempts to be environment-friendly.
The Saab 9-5 BioPower is a flex fuel car that can run on the environmentally-friendly yet potent fuel, bioethanol, or on pure petrol or any combination of the two.
The BioPower is intended to save fossil fuels and lessen harmful emissions. The use of alternative fuel bioethanol is one of the latest options in fighting air pollution, and Saab’s 9-5 is among the first cars to utilize it. The BioPower range allows the model’s two-liter engine to also run on unleaded gas. That means if bioethanol is not available petrol can be used. The ingenious engine management will take care of the rest, maximizing performance from the resulting mixture.
Saab uses the ethanol-petrol mixture called gasohol or E85 with the 9-5 BioPower. Made of 15 percent ethanol blended with petrol, gasohol was first introduced in Denmark in 1989.As a result, the environment reaps gains by the 50 to 70 percent less carbon emission compared to the traditional unleaded.
Saab estimates a 20-percent gain in brake horsepower and a 16-percent boost to torque with the BioPower model. The addition of a small amount of petrol helps the engine under cold start conditions. With the sky-rocketing oil prices, motorists could make long-term savings, get better performance, and help the environment by switching to BioPower.
With 11,000 BioPower cars sold last year, the figure is seen to increase by 3,000 this year as Sweden is giving drivers big incentives to go green. No tax on biofuel, free parking in cities, no congestion charges, and a 20 percent company car rebate are just some of the perks that come with owning environment-friendly cars like the BioPower.
