The following video covers the announcement of GM’s partnership with Coskata in a new process for the manufacture of ethanol, a process that’ll use waste resources rather than corn, will use much less water, and will cost less as well.

Saab’s own Kjell AC Bergstrom features in part of the clip, talking about Saab’s BioPower engines and ethanol as a fuel source.

With Bob Lutz being so bearish about diesel in the US recently (more to come later) it appears that BioPower will be the next ‘new thing’ after the XWD rollout later this year. Hopefully Coskata can get the process online asap.

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And by the way…..

Our own 1985Gripen did a phone interview with a newspaper in Los Angeles today.

Gripen’s been an early adopter of E85 in his company-provided Chevy Impala and I had the pleasure of riding in it, with E85 in the tank, from LA to Santa Barbara a few weeks ago. The LA Times did a hatchet-job on ethanol not so long ago, but now that the fuel is actually available in LA they seem to have more of an open mind in exploring the E85 experience.

The interview went well and hopefully we’ll have something on the site as soon as it goes online.