eFuels successfully tested in classic cars
Summary
Synthetic fuels, also known as eFuels, are on everyone's lips today. They offer the opportunity to operate combustion engines in the future without additional CO2 emissions. But can old cars and their engines cope with these new fuels? Does the technology suffer or does it even work better? AMAG Classic, together with EMPA and Motorex AG, is conducting a comprehensive study to find out exactly that.
This article contains the following chapters
- Why an eFuel study focused on classic cars?
- The route via methanol
- Triple MTBE content
- Problem-free use
- Problem-free compatibility
- Everything as before, but (almost) climate-neutral
- Perhaps a little better after all
- Availability and price development still unclear
Estimated reading time: 5min
Preview (beginning of the article)
One of the predominant topics of the new millennium was climate change and the contribution of man-made CO2 emissions to it. This also worries many classic car and youngtimer owners, as the conditions under which classic cars will still be on the road in 10 or 20 years' time, and whether they will be allowed to do so at all, are being discussed in many places. Although a car with an internal combustion engine can be converted to an electric drive (at considerable expense), this does not appear to make ecological or economic sense. Moreover, quite a few old-school enthusiasts fear that this would also take the soul out of the car. Synthetic fuels, also known as eFuels, offer an alternative. Although these do not prevent CO2 from being produced during combustion, this CO2 is recovered during the production of the fuel and thus (largely) neutralized for the environment.
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