Can E-Fuels Save the Combustion Engine?

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Synthetic fuels known as e-fuels may provide a way to make everything from cars to jets greener without eliminating existing combustion engines

signed a deal for the Heide Refinery in Germany to produce and supply the Hamburg airport with synthetic kerosene. The aim is to replace 5% of the fossil-based kerosene used to fuel jets at the airport with synthetic kerosene as early as 2024 through wind energy generated locally.

“The dialogue we’re having with our customers is promising,” says Morten Bo Christiansen, vice president and head of decarbonization at Maersk. “The technology is proven, mature and it can be scaled. There’s a huge investment cycle in front of us.” The company predicts the big cost gap between e-fuels and fossil fuels could narrow significantly in the next five years, depending on government taxes and subsidies. A tax on carbon would raise the cost of fossil fuels and drive an increase in renewable energy, which is needed to produce the green hydrogen used in e-fuels.

Some point out that EVs aren’t without environmental concerns of their own, including mining to extract lithium for batteries, as well as battery waste in the absence of highly developed recycling systems. Critics, however, say vehicles running on e-fuels will never be as green as electric vehicles, partly because a great amount of energy gets lost during the process of converting electricity into liquid or gaseous fuels.

 

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