Looking beyond the nose ...
02/04/2021
Corona may be playing first fiddle in the public eye at the moment, but the CO2 issue is still a constant topic in the background (on the double bass?). In Germany, the Federal Cabinet is currently negotiating the "Draft Law on the Implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive II in Transport". Unfortunately, politicians are not pursuing a technology-neutral approach and are pushing for the rapid conversion of private transport to electric vehicles.
ADAC Technology President Schulze rightly criticizes: "Electromobility plays a decisive role in climate protection in transport. However, we must not underestimate the importance of alternative fuels for additional progress. The expectations for climate protection in transport by 2030 are very ambitious. Only if we also find solutions for cars with combustion engines, which will still be the majority of vehicles in ten years' time, will it be possible to achieve the climate protection targets in the transport sector."
The facts are clear. An electric motor converts more energy into motion than a combustion engine, for example. But the production of new vehicles and batteries also consumes a lot of energy. Replacing fossil fuels with synthetically produced Co2-neutral fuels in today's combustion engines is less advantageous in terms of energy consumption than operating an electric car, but cars with combustion engines already exist and therefore do not have to be produced using a lot of energy and materials.
If, for example, a classic car were to run on eFuel (a fuel similar to petrol or diesel is produced from water and CO2 using chemical/physical processes and the addition of (hopefully CO2-neutral) energy), then in the optimum scenario, 0 kg net CO2 would be produced immediately and the old car would be environmentally friendly in terms of climate.
Perhaps this realization will catch on in time before driving an old car is banned?
P.S. And yes, even without a "Flux Compensator", a DeLorean ( see picture above) could be CO2-neutral ...
