Aramco, Stellantis prove eFuel compatibility with European engines
Published on: Sep 15, 2023
Stellantis and Aramco find that 24 engine families in European vehicles produced since 2014 (Euro 6) are compatible with expected eFuels formulations.
Auto giant Stellantis and Saudi state oil company Aramco have confirmed that e-diesel and e-gasoline are compatible with 24 engine types that are used across 28 million existing vehicles in Europe.
Low-carbon eFuel is a drop-in synthetic fuel made by reacting CO2, captured either directly from the atmosphere or from an industrial facility, with renewable hydrogen.
“Drop-in eFuels can have a massive and almost immediate impact on reducing the CO2 emissions of the existing vehicle fleet, offering our customers an easy and economically efficient option to reduce their carbon footprint,” said Ned Curic, Stellantis Chief Engineering and Technology Officer.
Stellantis estimates that the use of low-carbon eFuels in up to 28 million of its European vehicles could reduce up to 400 million tons of CO2 in Europe between 2025 and 2050.
“The results of the testing reinforce our view that synthetic fuel can be a drop-in solution in existing vehicles, and when produced via a low-carbon pathway it can play an important role in reducing carbon emissions in the transport sector and supporting an orderly energy transition,” said Amer Amer, Aramco Transport Chief Technologist.
Aramco is currently working on two demonstration plants to explore production of low-carbon synthetic fuels.
