The next step in this direction was taken only half a century later, in 1876, German inventor Nicholas Otto. He created four-contact internal-combustion engine, which worked on bioethanol. Created and even more unusual projects. For example, in 1895 Rudolf Diesel offered the type of diesel engine based on the use peanut butter. Biofuels have tried to use the famous American inventor Henry Ford.
In 1896 he created a vehicle with an alcohol engine. Ford believed the use of alcohol advantageous not only from a technical, but also from an economic point of view. He believed that the massive use of alcohol will help the peasants. In the early twentieth century found significant oil reserves, production volumes increase, gasoline is cheaper, and it determines loss of interest in biofuels. It is true that the era of neglect did not last long … Soon, alcohol has fallen since it began manufacturing from sugar wastes. Ethanol is used extensively in many countries around the world during the First World War I (1914-1918).. After the war, in the twenties, in the United States and many European countries are proliferating mixture of gasoline and alcohol.
For many years ethanol strongly trying to displace gasoline with a dominant position, but almost always lost, having disappeared from the market after the Second World War. Only in the early eighties the development of bioenergy is actively engaged in the U.S.. The need for alternative-fuel vehicles each year is rising, and at the end of the century (1997) begins mass production of automobiles, which was originally designed to run on gasoline-ethanol blend E85.