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Could ICE Have a Greener Future?

Keynote speaker at Automotive Techweek, Frank Abkenar, global engineering director at Ford, spoke about clean and efficient propulsion technology developments.

His presentation comes at a time when the conversation is increasingly against ICE because they are mainly powered by fossil fuels. However, despite the march towards Net Zero carbon emissions after COP 26, the question arises about whether ICE can have a greener future by being converted to work with greener fuels.

When asked whether there is greener future for the internal combustion engine in an interview for TU-Automotive, Matthew Avery, director of research at Thatcham, said the short answer is “No.” However, Richard Osborne, global technical expert of sustainable engines at Ricardo says there is a need to distinguish between pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions when considering the key technical developments of the internal combustion engine and whether they have become cleaner and greener over the last decade.

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Client: InformaTech, published by TU Automotive on 17th December 2021. Author: Graham Jarvis.

Ignoring Green ICE Fuels Could be ‘Barking Mad’

With the march towards decarbonization, Automotive Tech Week Europe asked in September as part of a fireside chat, whether governments and industry are ‘Barking up the Wrong Tree’.

As part of its own drive to decarbonization, the UK has set a 2030 deadline for the ban of all new gasoline and diesel cars. Yet electric vehicles are still quite expensive and out of the price range of most consumers. Many of them won’t be able to afford to replace their vehicles.

This is raising questions about whether it is better to focus on providing greener fuels for all types of vehicles, including for electric and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), rather than banning the internal combustion engine and hybrid vehicles outright. Andreas Follér, head of sustainability at Scania, who participated in the conference, says the premise of the debate is about focusing on technology with regard to combustion engines today and electric tomorrow. They could also focus on energy, which is what goes into the drivetrain and what out of the tailpipe.

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