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Webinar Green Hydrogen - Trends and Developments The Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), through the Institute for Environmental Technology and...

Final Event: Review On November 23 and 24, 2021, the joint final event of C3-Mobility, REDIFUEL and LONGRUN took place....

On November 23 and 24, 2021, the joint final event of C3-Mobility, REDIFUEL and LONGRUN will take place as an online event. The event offers participants exciting keynotes on the political debate. Click here for the profiles of the speakers!

A Germany-wide e-fuels information tour will take place from Aug. 23 - Sept. 7, 2021. Organizers are the Lühmann Group with support from the Bundesverband Freier Tankstellen (bft) and the UNITI Bundesverband mittelständischer Mineralölunternehmen e.V.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology (IEE) has presented the world's first PtX Atlas. It presents temporal-spatial high-resolution simulations for a first non-European power-to-X volume scenario as well as country-specific location analyses of the production characteristics and long-term production costs of electricity-based fuels. This will provide stakeholders from politics and industry with comprehensive insights into the study results.

In the C3-Mobility project, another demo vehicle could be put into operation! The VW Passat Variant is the second vehicle alongside the Daimler Actros to experience the potential of renewable fuels - not only in test operation, but also in the daily driving experience.

Frontier Economics has proposed a crediting system for renewable fuels in a recent study for Neste which would allow OEMs to voluntarily finance additional renewable fuel (on top of the volumes mandated under RED II) and count the corresponding emission reductions against their fleet targets.

According to a decision by the federal government to implement the Renewable Energy Sources Directive (RED II), the greenhouse gas reduction rate in traffic will be increased from currently 6% to 22% by 2030. The greenhouse gas reduction rate stipulates the percentage by which CO₂ emissions in road traffic must be reduced. The GHG reduction quota also defines the share of renewable energy in the drive means and is therefore an important regulation for achieving the ambitious climate goals in the transport sector.

Winfried Hermann (Bündnis 90 / Grüne), Minister of Transport in Baden-Württemberg, has called for a binding quota for the use of synthetic fuels in road and air traffic. Together with the SPD member of the Bundestag Andreas Rimkus, member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Bernd Westphal, energy and economic policy spokesman for his parliamentary group, he also called on the federal government to be more committed to alternative fuels.

In the study “The concept of efficiency in the climate policy debate on road traffic” by the consulting firm Frontier Economics on behalf of the associations MWV and UNITI, the total energy balance of battery-electric drives and synthetic fuels was considered on the basis of an overall efficiency comparison.

Under the leadership of Prof. Ralf Peters (IEK-14: Electrochemical Process Engineering), our partners from Jülich Research Centre have taken on the costs of producing and transporting green hydrogen and methanol from windy and sunny regions. Saudi Arabia is one of these advantageous regions, but also Chile or Australia. Possible customer regions are Europe, North America or Asia.

Another milestone was reached in the C³-Mobility project, the commissioning of the Daimler Actros as a demo vehicle. The truck serves to demonstrate the technical maturity of the motor use of the fuel blends OME, 1-octanol and diesel blend examined in work package C7.

Fuels Europe has presented a study that shows how low carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) could enable the transport sector to contribute to EU climate neutrality by 2050. The path shown in the study also shows that the transport sector can save 100 million tons of CO2 emissions per year by 2035.

Pleasing results come from work package C2. Under the leadership of the Institute for Combustion Engines (VKA) at RWTH Aachen University, ten fuel mixes with methanol, ethanol, iso-butanol and 2-butanol as well as methanol as a pure component were examined with regard to their suitability for use in car gasoline engines.

In the gas synthesis plant at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg converted for C³-Mobility, high-octane petrol is produced from green methanol. Around 15,400 liters have already been made available for the project partners.

In a pan-European study, the majority of participants advocated stronger government funding for e-fuels.

At the 17th International Congress on Renewable Mobility 2020, the topic of fuels of the future was discussed against the background of the climate protection package of the German government and the green deal of the EU Commission.

Federal Minister Peter Altmaier wrote in a Handelsblatt commentary on the opportunities of the energy transition and the importance of green synthetic fuels.

From October 22 to 23, 2019, our third consortia meeting took place at our partner BMW’s venue in Munich. In addition to substantive discussions, the first very good results of the joint project could already be presented here. The focus of the debates was on the political and public communication of e-fuels.

The current issue of science magazine Scitech Europa reports on the work and goals of C³-Mobility. The focus is on the production and application of e-fuels based on green methanol for passenger and freight transport.

Our second consirtia meeting took place at our partner Opel's venue in Rüsselsheim on March 27-28. Not only the next steps were focused, but also first results and milestones could be presented.

The conference marked the start of the research initiative "energy transition in the transport sector" (EniVer) funded by the German Federal Ministry of for Economic Affairs and Energy which will support 16 project groups in the field of innovative technologies and concepts for synthetic fuels in the next three years.