How much will synthetic fuels cost?

After 2035, new cars with SUS engines in the European Union will only be able to use synthetic fuels, or e-fuels, while fossil oil and petrol will be banned.

Although e-fuel is CO2 neutral when produced with "green" energy, it still burns, creating harmful particles and in city centers, exhaust gases are still harmful to humans and animals.

E-fuels are created in an ideal scenario by extracting hydrogen from water through electrolysis, and the electricity needed for that electrolysis comes from wind and solar power, so CO2 is added from the air in a chemical process.

Fuels are considered CO2 neutral because CO2 is taken from the atmosphere for their production and then returned to the atmosphere during combustion in engines. Until now, such fuels were produced in small pilot plants, but the German Autobild writes that the production in laboratory conditions results in a price of 4.50 euros per liter of fuel.

It is certainly not competitive with fossil fuels, but if e-fuels are produced on a large scale and production is optimized, prices are likely to be lower.

European environmental organization Transport & Environment (T&E) predicts an electronic fuel price of 2.80 euros per liter in 2030, and the eFuel Alliance group believes a price of 1.45 to 2.24 euros is possible by 2050.

This lobbying association estimates that production costs will fall between 0,70 and 1,33 euros per liter in 2050. These are production costs and the final selling price depends on the development of additional taxes and costs in the next 27 years. /Telegraph/