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Climate change has been an enormous factor in the automotive industry over the years. So far, Nissan and Toyota have been leading the pack, the former with an extremely popular electric vehicle and the latter creating hydrogen fuel cell technology. Audi’s got its own plan in the works and while hydrogen fuel cell technology sounds great, what if carbon dioxide could be removed directly from the air?
Audi’s gone the extra step to make it happen. The automaker has developed a process to create syntheticdiesel fuel, also known as “e-diesel”, which uses both hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the process of its creation. Overall, energy efficiency using renewable power during the creation process is around 70%. The fuel also lacks major pollutants sulfur and oil.
To start the process, electricity from renewable resources (wind, solar) is used to produce hydrogen from water through reversible electrolysis. The hydrogen is mixed with carbon dioxide, which is converted into CO, to create a chain of hydrocarbons. These hydrocarbons are finally refined to create the synthetic diesel fuel.
If Audi can create a new fuel source and reduce carbon dioxide while doing it, we at Jim Ellis Audi Marietta are more than happy to place our bets on the automaker.
