Aditya Kalra(@adityakalra):This is a story about E20 contamination warning by Indian automakers, which was withdrawn last week hours after Modi's government said the petrol is safe. Auto body SIAM said some numbers "need authentication." Behind the scenes, executives had been worried. Nobody questioned the data. Reuters has seen emails between Maruti, Tata and Mahindra from just days earlier. In them, executives call contamination a concern and push to warn the government urgently. What their own testing found: 250+ fuel samples tested across 21 states; High chloride in 18 states; A Mahindra engineer wrote organic chloride can spoil an engine "within 200 km." Read the details. https://t.co/0VXo0yKRaB With @aditishahsays Edits @SonaliPaul2

2026.08.13 06:27

This is a story about E20 contamination warning by Indian automakers, which was withdrawn last week hours after Modi's government said the petrol is safe. Auto body SIAM said some numbers "need authentication." Behind the scenes, executives had been worried. Nobody questioned the data. Reuters has seen emails between Maruti, Tata and Mahindra from just days earlier. In them, executives call contamination a concern and push to warn the government urgently. What their own testing found: 250+ fuel samples tested across 21 states; High chloride in 18 states; A Mahindra engineer wrote organic chloride can spoil an engine "within 200 km." Read the details. With @aditishahsays Edits @SonaliPaul2