Their FlexEcar box is timely in the midst of rising fuel prices.
Two automotive engineers from Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Christophe Saboureau and Aymeric Pournain, imagined a box to be mounted on the gasoline engine allowing the vehicle to take E85 bioethanol at the pump, a mixture of 85% ethanol and gasoline, much less expensive.
They created around twenty prototypes before approving it through automotive tests.
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"The idea came during the first confinement because we have been running on bioethanol with gasoline cars for four or five years," explains the two Toulouse engineers, currently employed by an automotive supplier.
We had already started as an autoentrepreneur a company that sold boxes of this type from Finland.
We decided to create our own that we had tested by our friends, our families.
Many people, motivated by savings, are interested in this type of converter.
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Also for motorcycles, quads and boats
While they recorded one or two orders per week at the start of the year, requests have accelerated since September with around ten weekly orders.
The converter, sold 349 euros and allowing about 30% savings on fuel, requires one to two hours of installation, a service offered by the founders of FlexEcar.
And far from being limited to cars, the box can also be adapted to motorcycles, quads and boats.
