Porsche synthetic fuels

[bloody tourist]

Here's hoping we can enjoy our ICE powered Porsches for many years:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/company/porsc...

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/porsche-joins-t...

Maybe the UK ban on the sale of new ICE cars in 2030 is premature?

[TDT]

bloody tourist said:

Here's hoping we can enjoy our ICE powered Porsches for many years:

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/company/porsche-siemens-energy-pilot-project-chile-research-development-synthetic-fuels-efuels-23021.html

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/porsche-joins-the-race-to-perfect-synthetic-fuel/

Maybe the UK ban on the sale of new ICE cars in 2030 is premature?

Understatement.

EV is the next dieselgate.

[Xfe]

To a humble layman such as myself, synthetic fuels appear to be the obvious green solution. We don't have to scrap current vehicles and production methods to force in a new generation of motoring. What is it about electric that makes it so much better?

Don't get me started about the ICE ban. Vote Tory, get Labour/Greens.

[Cheib]

My guess is that getting government’s to U turn on EV policy like the UK’s 2030 will be almost impossible....Boris will be long gone but political dynamite I would say. What synthetic fuels may do is give longevity to the use of ICE vehicles for long into the future. Where they really do need an option is HGV’s as there’s no sign of an EV HGV being economically possible for long past 2030 from comments I have read.

If you say 600 kg of battery gets an EV 200 miles (total guess based on weight of these cars) imagine how many ton’s of battery are needed to get a 30 ton lorry any distance and how much those batteries would weight and how little cargo the lorry could carry.

Porsche, Ferrari et al desperately need synthetic fuels or the outlook is grim. No ICE equals no 911 in my opinion...911 has to be rear engined end of.

[burman]

Cheib said:

My guess is that getting government’s to U turn on EV policy like the UK’s 2030 will be almost impossible....Boris will be long gone but political dynamite I would say. What synthetic fuels may do is give longevity to the use of ICE vehicles for long into the future. Where they really do need an option is HGV’s as there’s no sign of an EV HGV being economically possible for long past 2030 from comments I have read.

If you say 600 kg of battery gets an EV 200 miles (total guess based on weight of these cars) imagine how many ton’s of battery are needed to get a 30 ton lorry any distance and how much those batteries would weight and how little cargo the lorry could carry.

Porsche, Ferrari et al desperately need synthetic fuels or the outlook is grim. No ICE equals no 911 in my opinion...911 has to be rear engined end of.

Not to mention the article in EVO mag of ridiculous CO2 taxes in France ,- the worlds gone mental with Covid!