Conheça a gasolina e-fuel, aposta da Porsche para disputar com combustíveis

Meet the New e-Fuel Gasoline, Porsche’s Bet to Compete with Fuels

Written by Arthur Santos Eustachio

Published on 11/03/2024 at 17:24

Divulgação: Porsche newsroom

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E-Fuels Are An Alternative To Gasoline And Diesel. They Are Seen As A Potential Way To Keep Combustion Engine Cars On The Roads Longer Amid Plans To End Sales Of These Vehicles In The Next Decade.

But will electric fuels be practical and truly suitable for a future with net zero emissions? Porsche thinks so. The company opened a fuel refinery in Chile at the end of 2022 and successfully requested the European Commission to exempt cars using this product from the EU’s 2035 ban on gasoline vehicles. The UK government, however, did not grant such an exemption.

Porsche plans to race 30 Porsche 911 cars in September as part of the Goodwood Revival event. These are not new cars built from scratch to run on e-fuel. They are models from before 1966, according to Car Magazine.

What Is E-Fuel?

Regular gasoline is refined from crude oil. Plant and animal life millions of years old is transformed into this crude oil through a prolonged process of pressure and heat applied. The e-fuels targeted by Porsche are not produced with refined crude oil. Water is split into hydrogen and oxygen. This hydrogen is then combined with carbon dioxide to produce hydrocarbons, the main component of gasoline.

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Cost and efficiency, however, are the main arguments against the product. Electric cars are described as having 70-90% energy efficiency, depending on the statistics: Octopus EV states 77%, while Renault claims its EV engines are 90% energy efficient.

The combustion engine achieves a maximum efficiency of about 40%, according to Nissan, after decades of improvements. When using electronic fuels, it is necessary to deal with this energy loss, compounded by the energy costs involved in creating the fuel itself.

This makes e-fuels extremely expensive. Part of a 2017 study funded by the European Climate Foundation suggested that subsidies of at least €1-1.50 per liter would be needed to make producing the fuel in “significant volumes” remotely viable.

Nevertheless, there is no suggestion that such fuels are a credible substitute for current gasoline use.

Meet the New e-Fuel Gasoline, Porsche’s Bet to Compete with Fuels

E-Fuels Are An Alternative To Gasoline And Diesel. They Are Seen As A Potential Way To Keep Combustion Engine Cars On The Roads Longer Amid Plans To End Sales Of These Vehicles In The Next Decade.

What Is E-Fuel?

Some Problems

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Meet the New e-Fuel Gasoline, Porsche’s Bet to Compete with Fuels

E-Fuels Are An Alternative To Gasoline And Diesel. They Are Seen As A Potential Way To Keep Combustion Engine Cars On The Roads Longer Amid Plans To End Sales Of These Vehicles In The Next Decade.

What Is E-Fuel?

Some Problems

The Soviet Union spent 22 years drilling into the Earth’s crust and reached a depth of 12,262 meters — they found water where it was thought impossible, hydrogen bubbling from the rock, granite that is 2.7 billion years old, and temperatures of 180 degrees that melted the drill bits.

Egypt wants to draw 10 million cubic meters of water from the Nile per day into the desert, irrigate a new agricultural frontier, and build a city where there is currently only sand.

BRICS is preparing a payment system inspired by the Brazilian PIX that will allow direct transactions between countries using national digital currencies without relying on the dollar or Western banks as intermediaries.

Ethiopia has banned gasoline and diesel cars, placed over a hundred silent electric buses on the streets of Addis Ababa, and now aims for half a million electric vehicles by 2030, all powered by Africa’s largest dam and a courage that few countries have shown.

A view from space, an image made by NASA shows the impressive Richat Structure, a geological formation located in the Sahara Desert, also known as the “Eye of the Sahara.”

A brand that has been manufacturing motorcycles since 1901 launches its first electric model, and the price shocked the world: $3,000, weighing only 124 kg and accelerating from 0 to 60 km/h in 3.7 seconds…

Giant turbines on the seabed of Scotland have been generating clean energy for nearly a decade without interruption, and now the big promise is that tidal power could solve the biggest problem of solar and wind energy: the unpredictability that no one has been able to overcome until today.

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Oil slicks visible from space are advancing through the Persian Gulf after air attacks against facilities and ships, threatening protected islands, dolphins, turtles, and the drinking water of nearly 100 million people.

Dead fish expose environmental risk with thousands of anchovies removed; an intense foul odor affects residents, and low oxygen levels raise a nationwide alert about urban pollution.

Tech giant to lay off 8,000 employees, sparking a global warning as it cuts 10% of its team to cut costs.

Far beyond the forest, the Amazon functions as a natural humidity generator where giant trees release vapor into the sky and form flying rivers that provide Brazil with rain.

Specialists warn Brazil that old power grids are on the verge of collapse with excess solar and wind energy, which can cause cascading blackouts, shut down power plants even with surplus energy, and affect entire cities.