Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline FAQs

Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline is an innovative premium formulation engineered with triple-action protection for optimal engine performance. It delivers unsurpassed protection against gunk, unbeatable protection against corrosion, and our best protection against wear.

Engine gunk or carbon deposits acts like a sponge, absorbing and trapping gasoline, and making combustion less efficient. Industry data indicates that a cleaner engine can perform as originally designed, making it more fuel efficient with lower emissions. All Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gasolines, including Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline, contain an exclusive formula designed to actively protect against performance-robbing gunk in all three grades. Tested against competitors’ premium fuels, using industry standard tests, Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline delivered unsurpassed protection against gunk.

Corrosion is caused by moisture and other contaminants that can make their way into a vehicle’s fuel tank. It can impact the fuel pump, fuel lines, and fuel injectors. Furthermore, formation of particles from corrosive processes such as rusting of steel surfaces can contribute to the blockage of fuel filters, impacting overall vehicle operation. Tested against competitors’ premium fuels, using industry standard tests, Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline delivered unbeatable protection against corrosion.

Wear can occur when two metal surfaces rub together leading to loss of metal from those surfaces. For example, two metal surfaces sliding against one another, such as a piston moving up and down against the cylinder wall of an internal combustion engine. Abrasive wear in the piston assembly occurs slowly over time, with potential detrimental effects including higher oil consumption, loss of power and higher emissions. Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline is specially formulated to help protect your engine against wear.

We test our formulations in industry standard laboratory procedures and bench engines, and in a range of popular vehicles found on the road today. We have clocked more than half a million equivalent miles of testing, which includes various conventional and modern vehicles, such as those equipped with turbo-chargers, direct-fuel injection, and flex-fuel vehicles.

Forty percent of today’s current new automobile models coming off production lines are designed for premium fuels and these numbers are only expected to grow. In addition, 20% of all Shell consumers buy premium, but 80% of these consumers believe all premiums are the same. We launched Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline in 2015 so we could address this growing consumer demand in the industry and differentiate Shell from other premiums.

Shell V-Power NiTRO+ contains the highest concentration of the Shell Nitrogen Enriched Cleaning System and cleans up faster than Shell regular. In fact, Shell V-Power contains seven times the amount of cleaning agents required by federal standards. The Shell V-Power NiTRO+ formulation was engineered with triple-action protection for optimal engine performance, delivering unsurpassed protection against gunk, unbeatable protection against corrosion, and our best protection against wear.

Yes. Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline is effective in all gasoline-powered engines found in conventional, modern and hybrid vehicles as well as motorcycles.

In 2015, Shell and BMW announced an exciting relationship. In its endorsement, BMW recommends Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline for the BMW M class vehicle. Shell V-Power NiTRO+ Premium Gasoline is the only premium fuel recommended by BMW M.