Toyota among several automakers researching greener fuels

Just when we think all automakers have made their peace with the untimely death of ICEs, we get an occasional glimmer of hope. Toyota as well as several other Japanese automakers are now researching greener fuels! 

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Nothing is guaranteed with this announcement but it means that the ICE as we know it may not be as hopeless as we’d come to expect and that is because several top-tier Japanese automakers have established a new association that will be researching greener fuels and their viability. 

The stark EU mandate to outlaw the sales of ICE powered vehicles by the end of the decade means that most new cars sold will likely be battery-electric powered. Manufacturers are starting to voice their concerns over the lack of raw material and production capacity to meet the requirement for the millions of new vehicles that will be entering the market by that time. 

Toyota and several others have taken first steps in prolonging existing technology in a bid to make it more environmentally friendly. The joint project has been dubbed as the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels and as the name insinuates, the automakers believe there is still a future for fuel powered vehicles into the next generation.

Toyota, along with Subaru, Suzuki, and Daihatsu, have partnered with ENEOS Corporation and Toyota Tsusho Corporation as of the 1st of July. Their goal is to research the process of fuel production and ways of optimising it in a bid for more efficient and greener solutions than ever before. 

This isn’t a groundbreaking revelation since Porsche is one other automaker that has invested large sums in synthetic fuel production already but what it does mean is that as the looming deadline for electrification edges closer, there may be lobbying to allow for ICE cars operating on greener fuels too.  

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Image: Toyota

Delving deeper into the collaboration; the companies will be promoting technological research on the use of biomass and will oversee the creation of production facilities for bioethanol should the research be fruitful. This will include the efficient production of bioethanol fuel using the circulation of hydrogen, CO2 and oxygen.

The full-spectrum research association will not only gain an understanding around the viability of the fuels, but also the realistic carbon footprint offset of the undertaking from the phase of raw material up until the final point of production. 

Vehicles have been more efficient than ever before and initiatives like researching greener fuels may mean that alternatively powered ICEs become another solution to green mobility. Have a look at the Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell System below, compliments of Toyota Motor Corporation. 

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