04. Dec 2013
BP: Biofuels are immediate future for vehicles
Forget electric vehicles; the immediate future is biofuels. That’s the view of oil giant BP which conducted a thorough investigation into all forms of alternative fuels when it created its Future Fuels Team, writes Stephen Briers on fleetnews.co.uk, 3/12.
According to Olly Mace, BP senior executive in downstream oils and biofuels, the team “decided they wanted BP to invest in biofuels as the best option for the future”.
He told delegates at the annual ICFM conference that:
biofuels were “not a miracle or a curse”, adding: “They have to be done well but if they are, then they are a powerful solution to climate change.”
Mace pointed to two key challenges. First is how to make the crops through a sustainable process. The answer, BP believes, is cellulose, using all of the plant.
The second is to develop higher-quality biofuels. The mix in the UK tends to be 5´% biofuel although most modern cars are compatible with a 15 % mix.
Read the entire article at fleetnews.co.uk.
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