A poor utilization of energy means that synthetic petrol – and synthetic fuels in general – are not suitable for passenger cars, says the consultancy firm.
The discussion about the so-called e-fuel – or synthetic fuels – has been on the cards for several years. And it doesn't seem to have subsided.
While brands such as Toyota and BMW are proponents of technological openness – and that the EU's planned ban on the combustion engine should therefore be dropped again – the synthetic fuel is also harshly criticized.
Most recently, it comes from the consulting company Capgemini. Here, the use of synthetic fuels is well enough advocated. It just must not be able to be used in passenger cars and by private individuals in general.
This is what the consulting firm's technology and innovation manager Peter Fintl says in an interview with the industry magazine Automobil Industrie .
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– It is only 15-20 percent of the energy that actually moves the car, and no breakthrough is expected to come that will change this in the medium term, reads the criticism.
Peter Fintl also claims that the idea that the future of the internal combustion engine can be saved by e-fuel is misleading.
– There is no way around electric cars, asserts the technology manager.
Whether he is or will be right is difficult to predict. But several car brands have at least begun to regret their own goals for electric cars. In fact, the regrets are almost identical.
Most recently, Audi has announced that it still cannot meet its own deadline of 2033, when, according to the brand from Ingolstadt, it would otherwise be completely finished with the internal combustion engine.
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