{"id":658913,"date":"2026-02-27T11:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658913"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:39:53","slug":"govt-mandates-sale-of-e20-petrol-with-minimum-ron-95-from-1-april-what-it-means-for-your-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mandates-sale-of-e20-petrol-with-minimum-ron-95-from-1-april-what-it-means-for-your-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mandates sale of E20 petrol with minimum RON 95 from 1 April: What it means for your vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting 1 April, petrol sold across Indian states and Union Territories must contain up to 20% ethanol and maintain a minimum Research Octane Number (RON) of 95. While the administration retains the authority to grant regional or time-bound exemptions under special circumstances, this directive signals a nationwide shift toward greener fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The oil ministry, in a 17 February notification, said: &#8220;The central government hereby directs that oil companies shall sell ethanol-blended motor spirit (petrol) with percentage of ethanol up to 20% as per the Bureau of Indian Standards specifications and having minimum Research Octane Number (RON) of 95, in states and the Union Territories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting 1 April, petrol sold across Indian states and Union Territories must contain up to 20% ethanol and maintain a minimum Research Octane Number (RON) of 95. While the administration retains the authority to grant regional or time-bound exemptions under special circumstances, this directive signals a nationwide shift toward greener fuels. The oil ministry, in a 17 February notification, said: &#8220;The central government hereby directs that oil companies shall sell ethanol-blended motor spirit (petrol) with percentage of ethanol up to 20% as per the Bureau of Indian Standards specifications and having minimum Research Octane Number (RON) of 95, in states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}