Alt Fuels
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Porsche's additional investment in synthetic fuel aims to offset carbon emissions.
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Porsche breaks ground on its synthetic fuel plantPorsche will produce a synthetic fuel made by combining carbon dioxide and hydrogen that aims for a lower overall carbon footprint than electric cars, though cost could be an issue.
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Bentley Continental GT3 to attack Pikes Peak with 750 hp
A modified version of the Bentley Continental GT3 race car will tackle Pikes Peak in the Time Attack 1 class.
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Will renewable fuel power Bentley to a Pikes Peak hat trick?
The Bentley Continental set to run at Pikes Peak in June is a modified GT3 race car that will use renewable fuel.
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Porsche testing synthetic fuel in race conditions
Porsche is testing synthetic fuel in its Mobil 1 Supercup racing series with hopes of rolling it out to classic cars in the future.
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Porsche claims synthetically fueled cars can be as clean as EVs
A Porsche executive said synthetic fuels can reduce carbon emissions by 85%, creating lower "well to wheels" emissions than an electric car.
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Ammonia: Useful in fertilizers, cleaning products and fairly unpleasant in direct human contact. Used as a fuel for vehicles? Certainly not impossible, according to an article in New Scientist. John Fleming and Tim Maxwell at Texas Tech University are developing a system to produce ammonia that can be installed in filling stations. What are the benefits? Rather than using hydrogen to power fuel cells and the associated high-pressure storage problems associated with this, Fleming and Maxwell would use water to produce hydrogen from electrolysis, and this is then combined with nitrogen from the...
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Electric, Natural Gas Race Cars To Join ALMS?
Compressed natural gas and electric race cars could have a very real future in American Le Mans Series racing, and sooner than you might think.
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Australian-built hydrogen race car targets world speed record
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), an Australian university, has unveiled Australia's first hydrogen powered race car, dubbed 'Formula H' and developed in conjunction with the Fachhochschule Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences. With speeds of around 106mph (170km/h) expected...
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Ferrari CEO flatly rules out diesels
The Germans are embracing diesels wholeheartedly, and many of the Fiat Group's companies have a standing relationship with the oily fuel, but Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa has ruled out any move toward the technology, at least within the next five years, and probably beyond that. "Diesel is not a...
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LPG-powered Mustang GT cranks out 300hp
The Ford Mustang is many things to many people, but rarely is it considered an efficient or 'green' vehicle. A German LPG advocacy group and tuning shop Rollin on Chrome have come together to change that perception, however, producing a 300hp (228kW) LPG-fueled custom Mustang GT, which joins the...
Alex Kaufmann
