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Regulations and policy makers are concentrating the development of the automotive of the future<\/strong> towards electric motors<\/strong><\/a> and electrification<\/strong><\/a>, but there is another viable alternative solution that would allow to maintain endothermic engines in traditional vehicles<\/strong>: these are the e-fuels<\/strong>, a class of alternative synthetic fuels ensuring carbon neutrality<\/strong>. First of all, e-fuels, also known as electrofuels<\/strong>, are not biofuels, which are obtained from used oils, wastes and biomasses.<\/p>\n

The synthetic fuels<\/strong>, or e-fuels, are obtained by extracting hydrogen<\/a> using electrolysis<\/strong> leveraging renewable energy<\/a><\/strong>, therefore through a completely sustainable production process. Hydrogen is then combined with CO2 creating a liquid energy vector. E-fuels are said to be decarbonized<\/strong> because during combustion they produce an amount of CO2 that equals the same amount that gets absorbed while producing them, achieving a circular process at zero impact<\/strong> on the environment, and in fact more sustainable than the production of batteries for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n

The most common one is the synthetic fuel<\/strong>, or also synfuel, a mixture of hydrogen and CO2 which is also the basic component of many types of e-fuels. It can power traditional endothermic engines with no emission of sulphur dioxide nor other harmful substances.<\/p>\n

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Power to liquids technology is also employed to produce synthetic diesel fuel<\/strong>, or e-diesel,<\/strong> created from carbon dioxide, water and electricity coming from renewable sources, obtaining a liquid energy carrier called blue crude, which is then refined to generate e-diesel. There are also synthetic kerosene<\/strong>, which is already employed in the aviation sector, and synthetic methane<\/strong>, the most simple of all the e-fuels due to the fact that this is not oil-based, its production could be more easier and cheap not requiring refining.<\/p>\n

Eventually let\u2019s not forget hydrogen, green hydrogen<\/strong> obtained through electrolysis of water, and blue hydrogen<\/strong>, obtained by splitting natural gas into hydrogen and CO2, in fact using a reverse production process compared to e-fuels production.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s then very important to underline once again that e-fuels are compatible with traditional endothermic engines<\/strong>, thus not requiring the shift to electric powertrain. More over, e-fuels are also compatible with existing distribution plants<\/strong> and fuel stations already employed for traditional vehicles. Unfortunately, at the moment the production of these alternative sustainable fuels is still very expensive<\/strong>, but in the next years, with a larger adoption, the prices could lower reaching the same cost of actual traditional fuels.<\/p>\n

The eFuel Alliance<\/strong><\/a> says that industrial-scale e-fuels production should start in 2025<\/strong>, with a cost that could approximately be about 1.60 euro\/l or slightly more. Looking forward, by 2050 the cost could be in the range between 0.70 euro\/l and 1.33 euro\/l<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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