French car manufacturer Renault will launch a European biotehanol version of its Megane Hatchback model at the end of this year.
The date of release to the UK market has so far not been specified beyond the announcement that it will come at the end of 2007.
Details of price and technical specifications are also still unknown, although the new model is expected to cost only £200 more than its petrol-fuelled equivalent.
The Megane Hatch E85 will run on a mixture of 85 per cent ethanol and 15 per cent petrol.
It will run on a 1.6 16V 105 engine with a number of modifications to the fuel tank, injection system and combustion chambers to adapt it to bioethanol fuel.
The company has already been selling environmentally friendly models since 2004 in Brazil, where it sells FlexFuel versions of its Clio model and Megane's that run on bioethanol E100.
Expertise developed there was used to optimise the model that will be sold to European customers.
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