Why would I want to have to go to a station to get fuel? I just plug my car in at home and Im ready to go. Not having to go somewhere for fuel is a big reason why Id never go back to any sort of ICE car again.
I wanted to post this as reply on slashdot but I can’t be bothered to email for an account.
If someone can produce a carbon neutral synthesized fuel at a price even close to that of petroleum fuels then they will have all the money. A lot of people are looking to do just that.
Comstock fuels / Bioleum is a company planning to build a plant to convert biomass into fuel products. Their first plant is supposed to have an annual capacity of 400k barrels of gas gallon equivalents at an initial capital cost of ~300m. Supposedly they could produce ~3500gge(gas gallon equivalents) per acre of land with the right crops grown. I hope if/when they get it going that they don’t just sell it to the oil companies for greenwashing efforts, but instead actually try sell it to the end-user. The executives of it seem keen on integrating with the oil industry which seems kinda questionable from a business standpoint since they will both be fuel suppliers and therefore competitors.
The pricing will be key but that is unknown at this point. But I did see that their planned operating income was about $2 per gge which might be competitive with fossil fuels depending on the expenses for feed crop, labor, and maintenance.
