Article: EPA-certified flex fuel car has formaldehyde 'bug.' (Chevrolet Lumina)

EPA-Certified Flex Fuel Car Has Formaldehyde `Bug'

Chevrolet's Lumina, a new flexible fuel vehicle designed to burn M85, a blend of 85 percent methanol and 15 percent gasoline, has one "bug" which hasn't been worked out, says Tom Austin, spokesman for Sierra Research, Inc., a California emissions testing firm.

That flaw, he says, is its inability to effectively screen out formaldehyde, a toxic, smog-forming compound found in both gasoline and methanol.

His remarks were sparked by the announcement last week that the Environmental Protection Agency had issued its first emissions certificate for a vehicle designed to burn M85. This certification ...

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