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Audi Working On New Fuels to Make Cars Carbon Neutral

Posted October 09, 2012 10:16 AM

From Autoblog:

A car can be considered CO2 neutral if the amount of greenhouse gas used in creating the fuel is balanced against the CO2 emitted by the vehicle in operation. Even as automakers move to increase the number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), fuel cell vehicles and hybrids, internal combustion technology is not standing still. In fact, Audi believes that the future will see a mix of propulsion technologies and that internal combustion can play a role in producing vehicles that have minimal CO2 impact on the environment. As shown by Toyota's recent announcement to slow-walk EVs, the industry is looking into other alternatives besides pure electrics to meet ever-tightening Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and zero-emission mandates like those enacted by California.

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10/10/2012 7:47 AM

Europeans prefer that their natural gas be biogas. Manufacturers go out of their way to stress that their natural gas vehicles should, or could be fueled with biogas.

This now extends to farm tractors:https://gas2.org/2011/12/02/steyr-introduces-fiat-powered-cng-farm-tractor/

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10/10/2012 11:40 AM

Pull my finger, maybe we can make it to the next filling station.

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10/10/2012 12:52 PM

Making Fuel from the waste stream seems like a good idea. Much better than fueling our vehicles and other energy needs with the same things we fuel our bodies with.

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