Porsche, Ferrari, BMW… there are many brands that are lobbying to be able to continue selling vehicles equipped with combustion engines beyond 2035, since they are the only ones that make them money. Their lobby groups are working hard in Brussels – the nerve centre of the lobbies – trying to obtain an exemption based on the synthetic fuels which would satisfy manufacturers, the European right wing and oil companies.
At the moment the European Commission is listening and e-fuels or synthetic fuels may have a place, but BMW smells fishy“There are currently many indications that the European Commission is pushing a false solution in which the ban on combustion engines is relaxed,” said the head of the Bavarian firm, Oliver Zipse.
Zipse’s statements collected by Autonews Europe The European Commission is directly accused of not being fully committed to its plan to include e-fuels after 2035, when in theory only new vehicles equipped with batteries should be sold: “It is a false solution,” he said. For the executive, the European Commission should stop talking and open its wallet, starting by investing in synthetic fuels.
E-fuels are seen as a emission-neutral alternative CO₂provided that it is obtained from renewable or nuclear energy, by the automotive industry. However, it also has many drawbacks that would limit its deployment, including cost, but above all it requires such a large amount of energy for its manufacture that it is considered that there cannot be e-fuel for everyone.
At the moment, everything points to BMW having patented a new combustion engine that could revolutionise the sector and is based on a technology known as “pre-chamber ignition”, a concept that had already been used in diesel engines until the 1980s, but which is now being updated to adapt and improve current petrol engines.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
