Can synthetic fuels save the combustion engine?

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Synthetic fuels, which are also known as efuels, have the potential to be just as climate neutral.

BERLIN: Although the automotive world is currently obsessed with battery-driven cars, electrification is only one of several technical solutions to reducing the carbon footprint of vehicles on our roads.Several carmakers including Porsche are investing heavily in this technology, which would by the way, keep combustion-engined sports cars like the iconic 911 on the road for a very long time to come.

During production the same amount of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere as is later released during combustion. Engineers use the umbrella term “Power-to-X” for the many different ways of using electricity to create synthetic fuels. The success of this power source does however depend crucially on reducing production costs which remain far too high.

The viability of efuels depends a lot on their prices falling. This could happen through economies of scale and an expected drop in the cost of renewable electricity. They say using synthetic fuels means the existing infrastructure of petrol and diesel filling stations can be retained without the need for massive investment in public and private battery recharging stations.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

 

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