by jonathan lim April 27, 2022
Rides

here’s how Porsche is saving combustion engines with eFuels.

Porsche has just invested S$100m to produce synthetic fuels, or eFuels, in Chile, with additional plants planned for USA and Australia. For a myriad of reasons, electrification can’t be the only way forward when it comes to powering our transport needs. Not everywhere in the world (i.e. less developed countries and rural areas) has a power grid that can support a charging network; the weight and space penalties of batteries are ...

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by jonathan lim June 8, 2021
Featured, Rides

[fresh perspectives] could synthetic fuels be the carbon-neutral power source we need?

"Electric power good, internal combustion bad" seems to be the popular thinking now, but electricity alone is very far from ideal. Can carbon-neutral synthetic fuels be the realistic solution the world needs? Headlines all around the world have put the writing on the wall: in the UK (Sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2030), USA (California to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars Starting in 2035), ...

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