The European Union is set to demand that cars running on e-fuels must be 100% carbon neutral if they are to be sold beyond 2035, a draft document showed, after Germany demanded e-fuel cars be exempted from the phase-out of new polluting vehicles.

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The enormously high price of e-fuels means that people are unlikely to choose them for any kind of application where electrification is possible. This means that marketing an e-fuel-capable petrol car is basically an effort to prolong the use of fossil fuels, rather than any kind of serious decarbonization effort.

  • MrMakabar
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    10 months ago

    That was the deal. It basicly allows Porsche and Mercedes to buitl ultra luxury e-fuel cars with a combustion engine. Kind of like mechanical watches, totaly stupid from a technical perspective, but kind of cool for some people. They should be set up sp, they can only run on e-fuel and not petrol.