Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by crote on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:19AM
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A lot of gas stations have differently-sized nozzles for regular gasoline and diesel, and the fueling opening in the car is sized so that a diesel nozzle does not fit in a gasoline car. They should do something similar for e-fuel so people don't "accidentally" fuel them with classical fuel.
Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug...
by theK on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:38AM
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What you are forgetting is that diesel engines only work with diesel and gasoline ones only work with gasoline. This creates a natural incentive for the customers to not mix this up.
In the e-fuel vs trad-fuel story you do not have that incentive.
What you DO have, is an incentive to actually do the switch. Projections put e-fuel production costs at a 1500% premium over fossil fuels and wide spread availability is actually a hard scientific problem as even the announced global production capacity* of e-fuels is only enough for a few thousand vehicles.
* Apparently, to date, the biggest portion of announced e-fuel production misses either an energy provider or financial backing or both.
A good German summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrudYCzh2E
They are only LABELED as e-fuel cars. You can run them just fine with classical fuels.
EDIT: emphasis