If EVs Don’t Cut CO2 Fast Enough, These Fuels Might Help:
(E&E News/Politico Pro) Researchers with DOE say gasoline might have to be substituted with biofuels to ensure that climate targets are achieved as electric vehicles slowly phase in. — The U.S. Department of Energy released the results of a six-year initiative that provides a national road map for alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as electric vehicles slowly phase in.
The report, called the “Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines,” or “Co-Optima,” involved 140 experts including 100 from nine DOE laboratories and an additional 40 experts from industry and universities.
It concluded that a combination of lower-carbon fuels made from agricultural and forestry wastes, livestock manure, algae and waste fat, oil, and grease could be a substitute for gasoline and diesel to help fuel the nation’s 270 million cars and trucks, while EVs slowly phase in over the next 15 years.
“The project changes the way biofuels researchers in the labs, academia and industry think about fuels, in that it points the way to fuels with outstanding rather than average or even bad properties for end use,” said Robert McCormick, a principal investigator on the project. READ MORE
Get more details on Co-Optima findings, read the full report, and learn about the initiative. READ MORE
