The Indian government aims to increase the ethanol blending ratio with gasoline to 30% for automobile fuels by 2030. The government decided to advance the achievement of the 20% ethanol blending ratio with gasoline in 2025-2026. A lot of domestically-produced automobiles can use 20% ethanol blending gasoline (E20) in the country. The ratio of ethanol blending was believed to have risen to around 14.6% by the end last year.

India introduced ethanol blending gasoline in 2001 in order to reduce imports of petroleum products by increasing uses of ethanol that is domestically produced by sugarcane. The government in its initial plan set the target of attaining the ethanol blending ratio of 20% in 2030