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How e-fuel may just lengthen the pace of ICE cars within the electrical life

Baua Electric

“The tech is there, and you could mix regular fuels with e-fuels to reduce CO2, but our view is there would be no chance in the foreseeable future to reach net zero within an acceptable time scale.” Davis has studied choices to gas, together with hydrogen and e-fuel.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The resulting fuel efficiency improvements mean lower CO2 emissions and less fossil fuel consumption and, therefore, less pollution. Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., This company is not stupid." ( NY Times Magazine ) 2/16/07 In an interview with BusinessWeek on Feb. said in a statement.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There is significant cause vs. effect debate on CO2. The problem for the left is that NG is still a carbon based fuel (note: you are a carbon based lifeform and exhale 12 liters of CO2 a minute.). I think the jury is still out on that in spite of what the left believes. We have oil! Boones natural gas ( CNG ) plans.