Decarbonizing Transportation – Is there a Role for Fuels?

Authors

M. Hultman MSc, A. Karvo MSc, Neste Corporation, Stockholm / Espoo:

Year

2022

Print Info

Production/Publication ÖVK

Summary

Transport is at the centre of many economic and social development challenges, accounting for about 64% of the global oil consumption. We are in the midst of a fundamental paradigm shift of how we power mobility. Tomorrow’s mobility will be powered by a wide range of solutions, including electricity, hydrogen and renewable fuels. This paradigm shift is driven by an urgent need to reduce transport-related emissions, and only by combining all available solutions will we meet climate goals. The climate cannot wait.

Until now, there have been no commercial drop-in solutions for replacing fossil gasoline to reduce high amounts of greenhouse gas emissions from conventional petrol cars, without investing into new vehicles or modifying the old ones. For diesel vehicles there are already good solutions available like Renewable diesel (HVO100) that can reduce greenhouse gases up to 90%.

Steps are now being taken to solve this challenge, with renewable gasoline greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by up to 65% over the fuel’s life cycle when compared to fossil fuels. The aim is to improve this figure, to eventually achieve up to 90% emission reduction with the fuel use. This would mean that greenhouse gas emission over the life cycle of the fuel would be equivalent to those from an electric vehicle.

ISBN

1920-2323-23-1

Number of pages

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