Passion is our motivation
Passion is our motivation
Climate protection is a serious issue.
Research and development can quickly and efficiently lead to climate-neutral transportation.
E-fuels are not targeted against electrification, but are a solution to run all existing vehicles with a combustion engine in a quick and extremely effective climate-neutral way.
We are talking about around 1.4 billion vehicles powered by combustion engines.
Due to the climate protection goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, CO₂ emissions must be significantly reduced in the transportation sector.
In Europe, there is a ban on the registration of new cars and vans with combustion engines from 2035.
Regeneratively produced synthetic fuels, so-called eFuels, are an immendatory addition to electromobility.
With eFuels, existing vehicles with combustion engines can be operated in a climate-neutral manner.
eFuels are ultimately quite normal fuels such as petrol, diesel, heating oil or kerosene, but they are not produced from crude oil, but purely synthetically.
Their production essentially requires green hydrogen and green electricity.
Green means that the electricity required to generate the hydrogen and the production process for eFuel must be exclusively electricity from renewable sources.
The carbon required for production is removed from the atmosphere as CO₂, exactly the same amount as the CO₂ released during the subsequent combustion of the eFuels.
The production of eFuel therefore binds exactly as much CO₂ as is later released.
It is therefore a cycle.
The electricity for generating hydrogen and eFuels is best produced in regions that are ideal for this process.
For example, in climatically hot regions where solar energy is available in abundance all year round, or in areas where there is a strong wind all year round.
The renewable electricity produced in such areas (eg. Sahara or Patagonia) can be transported to the areas where the energy is needed without the huge losses that would occur over several thousand kilometers of power cables.
If this electricity is tied up in eFuels, a large proportion of solar or wind energy can be transported in this way to any region of the world for use there.
As there are so many areas in the world where a lot of renewable electricity can be produced, we would be relatively independent geographically, in other words much less dependent on countries that drill holes for oil.
The costs for synthetically produced fuel are currently still very high, but these can be significantly reduced by increasing production capacities and relocating them to the regions mentioned above, and will then be able to compete with the prices of conventional fuels.
It is repeatedly claimed that the use of eFuels is less efficient than the use of electric vehicles.
That’s true, but it’s about OUR climate and the efficiency with which we protect our climate for all of us!
There is even more potential in eFuels.
The CO₂ required for production can also be used from waste incineration plants or volcanic sources, for example, and thus not only produce CO₂-neutral fuel, but fuel that binds even more CO₂ than it releases.
Technological openness in the regulatory framework is an essential prerequisite for creating a willingness to invest in these technologies on a large scale.
These framework conditions should be created as quickly as possible, because climate protection concerns us all and everyone should have the opportunity to contribute.
Further useful information on eFuels can also be found on the website of the eFuel Alliance and the eFuels Forum:
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