Patent ID: 8232898

Claim:
A method for exchanging information concerning E85 gas stations between E85 vehicles, said method comprising: broadcasting messages from an E85 gas station that include a location of the E85 gas station, a time of the broadcast and a price of the E85 gas; receiving and storing the messages on E85 vehicles that pass within a defined distance of the E85 gas station; identifying two vehicles as E85 vehicles that pass relative to each other; and exchanging information between the two E85 vehicles concerning the E85 gas stations stored on the two vehicles so that a first vehicle receives and stores information about E85 gas stations from a second vehicle and the second vehicle receives and stores information about E85 gas stations from the first vehicle, wherein exchanging information between the two vehicles concerning the E85 gas stations includes exchanging an index list of the E85 gas stations stored on the first and second vehicles that includes a station ID number and a time stamp of when information about the E85 gas station was generated.