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The directions considered most promising for the environmentally friendly—especially CO2 free—drive of the future are currently battery electric vehicles and vehicles with fuel cells running on hydrogen fuel. See the preceeding chapters. In those two technologies combustion of hydrocarbons that will result into carbondioxide emissions to the atmosphere is no longer needed.
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As a rule, biogenic fuels are also not 100% climate neutral. This means that substances from fossil resources are also used in the production of biofuels. The methanol necessary for the production of FAME might be obtained, for example, from fossil oil (Sect. 5.1.2).
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Not to mention the countries that will stay with fossil oil as they consider their local development more important than contributing to the fight against global warming .
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The density of HVO fuel is significantly less than that of fossil diesel, see Table 5.1.
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The known deposits that can be economically exploited by means of the technology of today are called reserves.
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Hilgers, M. (2023). Alternative Fuels. In: Alternative Powertrains and Extensions to the Conventional Powertrain. Commercial Vehicle Technology. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65570-2_6
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