Audi recently developed a way to create diesel fuel from water and carbon dioxide. This is truly amazing since all this while all automakers have been dependent on either electricity or fossil fuel. Audi's engineering team worked out a way to create diesel by using hydrogen from water and fusing it at high temperature with carbon dioxide to create a clean new diesel fuel. This could spell disaster for oil companies since this method of creating diesel is renewable since the key ingredients are readily available. Audi is now doing further tests on this new fuel and claims that it can be combined with regular diesel or run 100% on its own.
This could be a new chapter in Audi's business and could potentially boost their income many times over. Being a renewable source of fuel the key thing now is to bring the cost of production down once the fuel is 100% stable. As it is already well documented, diesel engines are very efficient and offer great torque but a little noisy. Audi claims that the new fuel is quieter and cleaner than regular Euro 5 diesel. This is great news for EU countries since their regulations are always focused around carbon emissions.
If the price of the new fuel is able to be cheaper than regular diesel, don't be surprised to see Audi's new fuel overtaking regular diesel as a fuel source in the near future. Oil companies would want a piece of this technology and would pay top dollar just to buy the license or the patent for it. Since VAG is a big auto maker it is likely that they turn this technology into a cash cow for many years to come.
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