Remove Diesel Remove Downsizing Remove Renewable Remove Sustainable Transportation
article thumbnail

Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

Green Car Congress

Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol first surfaced as a potentially interesting transportation fuel in the wake of the oil crisis in 1973. transitioned to the renewable methanol.

article thumbnail

Expert group report finds alternative fuels could replace fossil fuels in Europe by 2050

Green Car Congress

Expected demand from all transport modes could be met through a combination of electricity (batteries or hydrogen/fuel cells) and biofuels as main options, synthetic fuels (increasingly from renewable resources) as a bridging option, methane (natural gas and biomethane) as complementary fuel, and LPG as supplement, the report finds.