Toyota eyes use of advanced biofuel by 2020 for hybrid car

Toyota Motor Corp. said it will step up development efforts to make commercial use of a new biofuel by 2020, with an eye toward marketing a hybrid vehicle powered by the environment-friendly fuel. For the biofuel, Toyota has already developed an ethanol-producing yeast through efficient fermentation of sugar from napier grass, an inedible tropical species of grass. The biggest Japanese automaker plans to devise a low-cost way of producing the biofuel by 2015. (October 3, 2011)