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Audi Produces First Batch Of ‘E-Benzin’ Synthetic Fuel

Audi’s e-fuel project has produced its first batch of a synthetic and renewable fuel called “e-benzin”, in partnership with French company Global Bioenergies.  E-fuel and e-benzin could one day relegate fossil fuels to the pages


Audi’s e-fuel project has produced its first batch of a synthetic and renewable fuel called “e-benzin”, in partnership with French company Global Bioenergies. 

E-fuel and e-benzin could one day relegate fossil fuels to the pages of history, as a renewable, clean-burning fuel that uses no petroleum products yet has an octane rating (RON) of 100. 

Audi describes its new fuel as “highly pure”, and says the next step calls for the “total elimination of biomass” - instead requiring just water, hydrogen, CO2 and sunlight.

This batch of e-benzin was primarily based on glucose from corn syrup, and its purity means no benzene or sulphur was required to refine it from a crude liquid.

E-benzin is suitable for engines with high compression ratios. Higher compression can be used to boost performance, improve fuel economy, or both.

The e-fuel can also be used as an additive to ‘conventional’ petrol, in a similar fashion to E10 and E85 ethanol-blended fuels.

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