Flexing its Muscle

The Honda CB300F street-bike has been updated to run on flex-fuel. Is the motorcycle good in this iteration? We find out

- Ajit Menon

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA WOULD LIKE ALL THE motorcycles and cars (barring the electric vehicles, of course) to run on ethanol-blended petrol. This would mean that the money we spend on fuel imports would decrease, so that we may spend it on other necessary things. The ethanol-blended petrol, known as E20, contains 20 per cent ethanol and 80 per cent petrol and the goal is to eventually use E80, which would contain 80 per cent ethanol and 20 per cent petrol.

Now, the normal engines we have cannot run on E20 because ethanol is very corrosive; you need special engines to run the mixture. The Honda CB300F Flex-Fuel, which is up to E85 compatible, is Honda's latest offering in the market.