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Understanding the Market for EVs and High Octane Vehicles For Fuel Retailer


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Free webinar will address how retailers and marketers will be affected by new vehicle types.

CYPRESS, TX - August 31, 2015: NACSonline reported that according to a recent report from Navigant Research, the rapidly changing market for electric vehicles (EVs) – including hybrids (HEVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) – is a small but growing part of the global automotive industry. Further, governments are pushing automakers to develop EVs and incentivizing citizens to buy them, due to the environmental, economic and energy security benefits they can provide. In part due to these incentives, plug-in EVs (which include plug-in hybrids and battery EVs), are expected to make up 2.4% of total worldwide light-duty vehicle sales by 2023.

Similarly, high octane vehicles (we’re not talking premium) are starting to be discussed more often as a potential transportation choice. As the Environmental and Energy Study Institute noted, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have been conducting coordinated studies to address the opportunities and challenges of deploying high octane fuels with mid-level ethanol blends to the passenger vehicle fleet.

They are finding that fuels that blend between 25 to 40% ethanol (E25 to E40) with conventional gasoline, instead of the current 10% ethanol blend (E10), can lead to greater fuel efficiencies and lower overall GHG emissions in the existing passenger fleet. Additionally, the introduction of this high octane mid-level ethanol fuel could provide an optimized fuel source for the much more efficient internal combustion engines carmakers are developing.

The Fuels Institute and Fuel Marketer News have partnered to offer a free webinar on Tuesday, September 8 at 2 p.m. (EDT), addressing the ways that these developments are likely to impact fuel retailers and marketers. Hosted by John Eichberger, executive director of the Fuels Institute, and Keith Reid of Fuel Marketer News, the webinar will feature a wide-ranging, open discussion of electric and “high octane” vehicles and their potential impact on our industry – audience participation is more than encouraged! Register now for the free 30-minute webinar.