For all the car lovers out there, very soon, you’ll be able to drive your Porsche that runs only on air and water and not gasoline.
Electric cars have been making the wave for a few years now. However, the Porsche brand has developed a new way of powering vehicles without affecting the planet.
For the first time, Porsche has filled up its iconic 911 sports car with a new synthetic fuel created out of just thin air and water.
This new eFuel is developed by a company called Highly Innovative Fuels—a company in that Porsche has invested. They house a wind-powered plant in Chile, where the wind blows an average of 270 days of the year.
So, how exactly will water and air be able to move a car if it’s not gasoline? The new fuel combines carbon captured from the atmosphere (the thin air) and hydrogen sourced from water to create methane, which is then converted into fuel that works just like gasoline.
Stating in a statement, the Porsche Director of Research stated that “the potential of eFuels is huge. There are currently more than 1.3 billion vehicles with combustion engines worldwide. Many of these will be on the roads for decades to come, and eFuels offer the owners of existing cars a nearly carbon-neutral alternative.”
“As the manufacturer of high-performance, efficient engines, Porsche has a wide range of know-how in the field of fuels,” the director added.
Porsche is not the only brand that’ll be moving towards eFuels. The CEO of Lamborghini, Stephan Winkelmann, says his car brand will be interested in these eFuels.
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