Full Battery Electric Vehicle sales rose again in the UK last month (despite what you may read in the mass media) and now account for almost 1 in 5 of all new cars here. eFuels produce the same amount of NOx pollution as fossil fuels. While they may keep a few ICE cars going for the wealthy in the future, they will not be a mass-market solution. Far too many other things that will require the world's green hydrogen production.
@@TABonTV The barrier is mainly physics. The efficiency (and cost) advantage of just putting the green energy straight into a battery EV will always trump eFuel production.
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research looked at e-fuel planned production back in 2023 and concluded that there is only likely to be enough global production to cover just 10% of German demand by 2035. It’s pretty much a non-starter for mass use, but maybe suitable for classics, although there will be plenty of demand to help reduce emissions from the hard to abate sectors of the economy - chemicals, shipping etc. E-fuels are also not legal in the UK for new car road use after the (soon to be reinstated) 2030 pure combustion/2035 hybrid ban. This was a German and Italian government plan which the European Commission had to add into the EU 2035 combustion phase out plan.
TABonTV can you confirm that the Taycan will be discontinued in 2026?? When I google this it says the Taycan will be discontinued in non European markets 😭
Unsure. I've heard a few rumours here. What you need to consider is that if the Panamera eventually ends up becoming fully electric too, then you pretty much have the same car as the Taycan, so there might need to be some rationalisation in the future.
@@TABonTVthat’s what I heard. They would discontinue one or the other, no need for two. This is sad! We will see if this will bring the values up 😅
Hi. E Fuels and H2 will never reach the price range of fossil fuels today! To produce H2 you need 3 times of electrical power and E Fuels needs 7 times more than to drive electric vehicles! So you have to pay for E Fuels when mass produced about 6 € per liter!!! The next thing is, to fill up the ICE cars and trucks around Europe you need about 1 million of the pilot site from Porsche Chile!! Where do you get them from? If you produce E Fuels on the other side of the globe you have to pay for the transport extra!! AND, the ships has to drive by E Fuels or H2 as well! So than you have to pay for 1 liter E Fuels about 9 to 10 €!!! So it's easy told story, it never happens! Mr. Blume said last month that he only could guarantee E Fuels for about the half of the 911 fleet if they could get the site in Chile to work properly until 2035!!! They have to buy CO2 from some factories because their CO2 airfilter section still doesn't work more than 5% and the engineerings said they need about more 25 years to get it fixed. In 25 years will about 80% drive fully electric! So only a little bit of ICE drivers with a lot of money will be able to use E Fuels..... 😉
Thanks for the thoughts Joe! Interesting perspective. I agree with everything you've said there, but this assumes nothing changes in the current process. Now I appreciate there aren't many levers to pull, but it might just be that we'll stumble across a breakthrough. You never know! Stay safe 🙏🏻
@@TABonTV any fire produces NOx. It has nothing to do with the fuel, it's just nitrogen and oxygen from the air, combined into NOx by fire. There's nothing you can do. If NOx is banned, as it should, no combustion engine has future. Cars, stoves, boilers...
Gee, I only missed it by a few minutes. I think I will camp out here and see if I can get honors on the next one. My ego gets such a rush when I'm first.
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Full Battery Electric Vehicle sales rose again in the UK last month (despite what you may read in the mass media) and now account for almost 1 in 5 of all new cars here. eFuels produce the same amount of NOx pollution as fossil fuels. While they may keep a few ICE cars going for the wealthy in the future, they will not be a mass-market solution. Far too many other things that will require the world's green hydrogen production.
That's only if there's no further innovation in the sector over the next 10 years - I hope there will be.
@@TABonTV The barrier is mainly physics. The efficiency (and cost) advantage of just putting the green energy straight into a battery EV will always trump eFuel production.
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research looked at e-fuel planned production back in 2023 and concluded that there is only likely to be enough global production to cover just 10% of German demand by 2035. It’s pretty much a non-starter for mass use, but maybe suitable for classics, although there will be plenty of demand to help reduce emissions from the hard to abate sectors of the economy - chemicals, shipping etc.
E-fuels are also not legal in the UK for new car road use after the (soon to be reinstated) 2030 pure combustion/2035 hybrid ban. This was a German and Italian government plan which the European Commission had to add into the EU 2035 combustion phase out plan.
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TABonTV can you confirm that the Taycan will be discontinued in 2026?? When I google this it says the Taycan will be discontinued in non European markets 😭
Unsure. I've heard a few rumours here. What you need to consider is that if the Panamera eventually ends up becoming fully electric too, then you pretty much have the same car as the Taycan, so there might need to be some rationalisation in the future.
@@TABonTVthat’s what I heard. They would discontinue one or the other, no need for two. This is sad! We will see if this will bring the values up 😅
@@Lifeisapartydresslikeit alas I think it will take some kind of divine intervention to bring the values up 😆
Hi.
E Fuels and H2 will never reach the price range of fossil fuels today!
To produce H2 you need 3 times of electrical power and E Fuels needs 7 times more than to drive electric vehicles!
So you have to pay for E Fuels when mass produced about 6 € per liter!!!
The next thing is, to fill up the ICE cars and trucks around Europe you need about 1 million of the pilot site from Porsche Chile!!
Where do you get them from?
If you produce E Fuels on the other side of the globe you have to pay for the transport extra!! AND, the ships has to drive by E Fuels or H2 as well!
So than you have to pay for 1 liter E Fuels about 9 to 10 €!!!
So it's easy told story, it never happens!
Mr. Blume said last month that he only could guarantee E Fuels for about the half of the 911 fleet if they could get the site in Chile to work properly until 2035!!! They have to buy CO2 from some factories because their CO2 airfilter section still doesn't work more than 5% and the engineerings said they need about more 25 years to get it fixed.
In 25 years will about 80% drive fully electric!
So only a little bit of ICE drivers with a lot of money will be able to use E Fuels..... 😉
Thanks for the thoughts Joe! Interesting perspective. I agree with everything you've said there, but this assumes nothing changes in the current process. Now I appreciate there aren't many levers to pull, but it might just be that we'll stumble across a breakthrough.
You never know! Stay safe 🙏🏻
What will come out of the exhaust of an engine running on e-fuel? Is that going to be water (like burning hydrogen) or something else?
Unfortunately pretty much the same as normal fuel right now, hopefully that can be improved
@@TABonTV any fire produces NOx. It has nothing to do with the fuel, it's just nitrogen and oxygen from the air, combined into NOx by fire. There's nothing you can do. If NOx is banned, as it should, no combustion engine has future. Cars, stoves, boilers...
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Gee, I only missed it by a few minutes. I think I will camp out here and see if I can get honors on the next one. My ego gets such a rush when I'm first.