While most carmakers seem to be betting the farm on battery electric vehicles there are one or two others that are casting the net a little wider when it comes to powering the cars we’ll be driving in the not-too-distant future. Hydrogen is one technology being explored, but another is the development of synthetic fuels (often referred to as ‘E Fuel’) which is what we’re taking a closer look at here.
Essentially what we’re talking about is the production of a man-made hydrocarbon fuel, one that would not only be CO2-neutral but, just as importantly to some, would allow the continued use of the internal combustion engine. Given its development over more than a century it is easy to understand why some in
