https://www.haruoni.com/#/en
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-environment-and-energy/porsche-breaks-ground-synthetic-fuel-plant-chile
I'm not against hybrid cars as in current fuels+ a hybrid unit and also DRs will be coming through shortly.
I am anti electric at the moment as, firstly, over 40 percent of it is made from oil and gas and probably more at the moment given the demands of winter and the market disruption. All it does is push the envronmental problem of fossil fuels up the line and 'out of sight'.
secondly, think of all of those pollutants, emissions already 'invested in' and then the infrastructure and even the jobs tied with the current distribution network - which will increasingly be made redundant.
Yet, here we have a project that looks to make hydrocarbon fuels with its source raw material being CO2 from the air, reacted with green Hydrogen and hydroelectric power to make 650 mln litres a year of petrol/diesel - and at the same time, locking in the CO2 to a sink from when it enters the plant to the exhaust pipe of the car. And this to be done, I believe at a strike-cost of 74c/litre which isn't that far off today's basic cost ex refinery.
The technology is fundamentally an old one - Fischer-Tropsch and was used by the Germans in WW2 and the s.Africans in Apartheid based off coal gas. But here we have an environmental way of being able to use current investments in fuelling our vehicles. It would be a brilliant opportunity for scotland/Wales etc - and then countries like Norway.
Therefore why bring down the shutters on h-carbon fuelled vehicles and close our UK eyes to this technology - we should be actively encouraging it to be developed in the UK......Wake up our Government - and I mean all parties, even the Greens.