General Motors and Coskata

Bringing together the world’s leader in flex fuel vehicles with innovators in the biofuels industry.

General Motors is the auto industry leader in offering consumers a choice of flex-fuel cars and trucks that run on either ordinary gasoline or E85 – a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, or any combination of the two. GM produces more than 1 million flex-fuel vehicles a year and has 3.5 million on the road globally. Over the last 18 months, GM has led the effort to grow E85 stations around the country.  The effort has led to more than 300 ethanol pumps being added in 15 states.

 

Rapid Commercialization & Retail Development

With an undisclosed equity stake in the company, GM is enabling Coskata to produce the next generation of biofuels - without using a food source - making ethanol economically viable and commercially available. Together, GM and Coskata will work to accelerate the commercialization and retail development of biomass-based ethanol to encourage more stations to sell E85, and make this alternative fuel a viable choice for drivers of flex-fuel vehicles.

Our work together is an important step towards enhancing U.S. energy security, while at the same time, tackling some of our most important environmental challenges in a meaningful way.

Waste and Emissions Management

GM and Coskata will work together in several areas, including waste and emissions management, global applications and fuel testing. 

Using Coskata’s innovative ethanol conversion process, GM can provide non-recyclable plant waste, such as non-recyclable parts of vehicles that have reached the end of their lifespan, as a feedstock for ethanol, further reducing landfill use and contributing to GM’s effort to increase the number of its global production facilities that send zero waste to landfills.

 

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