Interesting read.
Even if Zero Petroleum one day hits that 65 per cent efficiency goal, that’d still mean barely a sixth of the green energy going into their magic e-fuel machine would actually reach the wheels of your Ford Fiesta. That same kilowatt-hour of fuel that sent your EV three miles might get your petrol car around 700 yards.
Source: EdOfTheMountain
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I suspect this one won’t get much engagement just purely because this is common sense, we will not be using e-fuels in our daily commuters. At best, we’ll see them used in niche classic cars ~30 years down the road.
Only for niche things. The efficiency will not be there.
Thermodynamics says no to wide scale use.
No…unless they have absolutely no issue with paying exorbitant prices for fuel.
This is something for specialty applications where price doesn’t matter (e.g. racing or similar)
It’ll have uses in long-distance travel via planes, ships, and rockets, as well as racing and classic motoring. It’s possible it will have some use in long-distance trucking, especially in the shorter term, but there’s a definite question of whether there will be a window where there’s enough excess power to make e-fuels worth it for that but battery tech hasn’t advanced or dropped in price that it’s not more cost-effective to use electric propulsion, and even that’s assuming there’s no in-road recharging system or fast enough charging that it’s unnecessary.
Meanwhile VW needs to call back Millions of Diesel cars again because they still cannot build a “clean” engine