Finnish refiner and biofuels producer Neste is testing a renewable gasoline as a potential drop-in, lower-carbon fuel for conventional internal combustion cars, the company said May 21. Tests to study the properties of new fuel are currently underway on two cars in Sweden together with Powertrain Engineering Sweden AB, a supplier to Volvo Car, Neste .
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Neste takes steps toward commercializing renewable gasoline in Sweden
By Mary Page Bailey |
May 24, 2021
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that it has entered the final phase of testing for renewable gasoline in Sweden and is now advancing the target to complete commercial tests of the fuel, and thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and hybrid cars.
With Neste’s 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 for Neste 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.
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The EU recently increased its target for the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. There are also ambitious national targets in Sweden and Finland, for example, including separate emissions reduction mandates for the gasoline pool. However, the currently existing alternatives for gasoline-powered cars do not enable a significant reduction in fossil gasoline use in a short enough time frame.
The product fulfills EN228 standard and can be used in both existing and new gasoline and hybrid cars. Tests of the new fuel are ongoing together with Powertrain Engineering Sweden AB, a supplier to Volvo Cars. Powertrain Engineering Sweden, which supplies Volvo Cars and other manufacturers with powertrains and the next-generation hybrid system, is now evaluating Neste’s renewable gasoline.