While most car manufacturers and nations are heading into electrification like leemings over a cliff, new developments in carbon neutral synthetic fuels could save the ICE.

The fuels are usable in existing vehicles and the current fuel infrastructure;

At the moment synthetic fuels are expensive to make and would require energy from renewable sources to be carbon neutral.

Article from EVO magazine March 2020

MAZDA I believe, are putting most of their efforts not into EVs, but alternative fuel/s that is compatible with existing gasoline fuel network infrastructure, ie. utilising existing gas stations & their pumping & storage infrastructure.

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Interesting. I wonder if the UK ban on new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2035 includes vehicles that run on newly developed, or yet to be standardised, carbon neutral fuel? I can see the rules being updated to accept that before 2035.

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Hmmm, carbon neutral fuels... aha! I know...

Alcohol driven cars. The first four aliphatic compounds are of interest here (Methanol, Ethanol, Propanol, Butanol) with Butanol the closest to petrol.

Lots of hard work involved to use alcohols, however the benefits MIGHT (I stress MIGHT) be good.