Ethanol in East Tennessee
E85
There is now one public E85 station open in Knoxville! Click here to visit our refueling links page and find out about this station!
In East Tennessee, although there are many vehicles that are ready to use ethanol (as E85 -- 85% denatured ethanol and 15% gasoline) that are in the community, few use it. The fleets that do are Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge Operations division of DOE and new regional user KUB.
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Fleets:
DOE-Oak Ridge Operations
Knoxville Utilities Board
ORNL
State fleet, based in Nashville
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ORNL has on the order of 80 FFVs (flex fuel vehicles -- vehicles that can run on any mix of two fuels),
including about 10 they added this year. The remainder of the DOE-ORO fleet has about another 120-130
FFVs, while KUB currently (Nov. '05) has 24 but that number will grow over the next year.
See pictures of ORNL's E85 pump!
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The state fleet, with the help of Clean
Cities of Middle Tennessee, installed a public E85 station in downtown Nashville mid-2004. The ETCFC
is beginning to work with TDOT and TDEC to look at placing multiple E85 stations in East Tennessee,
hopefully along the I-40/I-75/I-81 corridors. This placement would allow developing "clean corridors"
for passers-through to fill-up with E85 at the same time it would allow state vehicles that move through
East TN to fill-up. Additionally, those local or regional citizens that pass by that location could
fill-up with E85 there.
E10
Through the leadership of Pilot Oil in Knoxville and Appalachian Oil in the Tri-Cities area, there are
now about 45 public E10 stations in East Tennessee. Pilot Oil has 34 of their "Pilot" C-store stations
that offer E10 in the low- and mid-grade gasoline while Appalachian Oil has 13 public stations in
northeast Tennessee that offer E10. You can see the listings of those locations by visiting our "refueling locations" page.
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