Mazda Working on Carbon-Neutral Biofuel
(New Zealand AutoCar) As Mazda prepares to launch its first electric vehicle onto the market, another division of the Japanese manufacturer is working on extending the life of the internal combustion engine. The latest idea? A carbon-neutral biofuel.
Mazda is providing funding to the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is studying plant physiology, and Hiroshima University, which is looking at genome editing. Apparently, initial ideas that are gaining traction include growing biofuel from microalgae. It’s carbon-neutral because, when burnt, it releases CO2 that has been removed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis to grow the algae in the first place. READ MORE
Mazda to go carbon neutral with new biofuel (CarsGuide)
Mazda backing algae biofuel research (Green Car Congress)
A ‘crisper’ method for gene editing in fungi (Tokyo University of Science/EurekAlert)
Algae ‘blooms’ in automotive industry (Biofuels Digest)