Sections of industry back synthetic alternatives to fossil fuels, but case is much stronger for aviation
Most bright red sports cars do not make much of their green credentials. Yet a test run in Bicester, Oxfordshire, by the startup Zero Petroleum last week gave a glimpse of a future in which combustion engines did not add new carbon to the atmosphere. The car was running on e-fuel: petrol made using electricity, hydrogen from water, and carbon captured from the air.
The automotive industry is steadily moving away from fossil fuels, and a firm global consensus has emerged that battery electric vehicles are the way forward. Yet that consensus took a knock last month when the EU – to the shock of energy experts, environmental campaigners and much of the car industry – opened a small back door to e-fuels.
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Originally posted in the guardian.
