Friday, October 18, 2024

Porsche is pushing – "Synthetic petrol must be more widespread"

Porsche already produces synthetic gasoline – the so-called e-fuel – in Chile. Now things need more push and spread, says the development manager.

Porsche's head of development Michael Steiner has no doubts. Synthetic petrol – the so-called e-fuel can also be spread more widely.

Right now, the German brand produces synthetic gasoline for its Cup racing cars at a factory in Chile. But there is nothing in the way of scaling up production.

Michael Steiner tells that in an interview for Autocar .

For Porsche, it is about keeping the existing fleet of cars alive after 2035, when the EU would prefer to see new petrol and diesel cars banned.

READ ALSO: Electric car sales are plummeting – importers want government subsidies

The interest body of the German car brands will even go even further, albeit with a slightly longer time horizon. Here, they want to ban petrol and diesel, which are based on crude oil, by 2045 at the latest. Read more about the proposal here .

Back at Porsche, according to Michael Steiner, it is about a fact that more and more – including both the general population and the politicians – have realized. Namely that you cannot force electric cars and the electricity for them as the only legal solution.

– It (the electric cars, ed.) is the main track. But we have to think about the huge, huge existing fleet of cars with internal combustion engines.

– Something that is still growing. Everyone must gradually replace their cars with electric cars. But we must carefully consider how we replace the fossil energy that we fill in cars, ships, planes and so on.

The Porsche boss doesn't expect the entire fuel industry to all of a sudden use synthetic fuels, but he envisions it happening gradually.

– We are experiencing more and more support (for the project in Chile, ed.). But there is still a long way to go when the huge machinery needs to be helped to start. By the end of this decade, significant amounts of e-fuel will be used, says Michael Steiner.

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