By ELLEN STOLZ and RACHNA LAL TOTAL (Fiji) Limited yesterday launched a new fuel product for the people of Fiji, TOTAL Excellium, which replaces unleaded petrol. TOTAL Excellium will be

By ELLEN STOLZ and RACHNA LAL

TOTAL (Fiji) Limited yesterday launched a new fuel product for the people of Fiji, TOTAL Excellium, which replaces unleaded petrol.

TOTAL Excellium will be sold at the same price as unleaded petrol which was $2.61 per litre but is believed to have additional benefits.

Benefits of TOTAL Excellium include:

Saves money and fuel consumption.

Cuts carbon dioxide by five percent and keeps Fiji clean.

Cuts black fumes from vehicles by 25 per cent.

Several million dollars have been invested by the company to upgrade its facilities across Fiji.

TOTAL (Fiji) Limited managing director David Kalife said the product was an innovation and a first for the Pacific and is suitable for all existing unleaded petrol vehicles.

“It’s a new generation of fuel that brings benefits that has never been delivered by previous fuel products,” Mr Kalife said.

“It brings an extra 30 kilometres per full tank which means when you fill your tank, you can drive for longer with the same amount of fuel in your engine.

“So you save on fuel and money automatically,” he said.

He said to develop this product, which was tested vigorously at their research centre, involved the work of 30 engineers and 320,000 kilometres drive to test its performance over a span of two years.

“People who use this fuel will feel the difference especially in hard times such as these where money is a concern and people would want to get more mileage on fuel,” he said.

Mr Kalife said it was too early to say what people thought but so far response on the new product had been good.