Lufthansa CEO: E-fuels belong in airplanes rather than in cars.
The Lufthansa CEO speaks out clearly against plans by the automotive industry to increasingly use climate-neutral fuels in road traffic.
“E-fuels are the worst,” he said at a press conference of the European airline association A4E. With an e-fuel in a car you lose 84 percent in efficiency compared with an electric vehicle. “And yet some people want to fill cars with e-fuels,” said Spohr.
Ultimately, it makes much more sense to use sustainable fuels in aviation. Doing so serves climate protection more. In road traffic there are more alternative propulsion methods than in aviation. The debate about in which areas climate-friendly fuels should be used should be widely discussed in public.
Criticism of mandatory quotas for environmentally friendly fuels
The airlines also sharply criticize mandatory EU climate protection requirements that dictate how much sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) must be used. This leads to more expensive flights via EU hubs and shifts traffic, jobs and emissions abroad, where there are less stringent climate protection rules.
E-Fuels are synthetic fuels with which internal combustion engines can theoretically be operated in a climate-neutral manner. The prerequisite is that they are produced with electricity from renewable energy sources. In addition to E-Fuels, there are also other fuels that are regarded as environmentally friendly. These include, for example, so-called biofuels, which are produced from biomass — namely, for instance, rapeseed or maize.
Representatives of the automotive industry are insisting that climate-friendly fuels will play a larger role in road traffic in the future than previously planned. They want to be allowed to sell new cars with internal combustion engines in the EU even after 2035.
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