Abstract
Towards the end of 1983 Brazil announced that it had built its ‘one millionth alcohol car’ and celebrated the event by a special show. Over 85 per cent of cars sold last year in Brazil were alcohol-powered cars, and ANFAVEA (The Brazilian National Association of Automobile Manufacturers) estimate that 5 million alcohol cars will be sold by 1990, depending on the world’s oil situation.
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Rosillo-Callé, F. (1988). A Reassessment of the Brazilian National Alcohol Programme (PNA). In: Greenshields, R. (eds) Resources and Applications of Biotechnology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09574-2_30
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