The GasOn project technologies & results (increased range, gasoline-like performance, EU6+ emission compliance and lower fuel consumption) can lead to further market penetration of clean vehicles attracting new customers supported by appropriate incentives and sufficient CNG station infrastructures.
After a basic simulation (e.g. up to 4% market share) the CNG market can then grow on itself. Moreover CNG can simply be replaced with sustainable fuel of the highest available land use and CO2 avoidance efficiency, as bio-methane and PtG (power-to-gas) methane (made by renewable hydrogen and CO2 captured from the environment). This is the basis for a 100% sustainable mobility.
The applicability of GasOn technologies to CNG products for European market as well as to abroad markets will strengthen the competitiveness and growth of European companies, which own the technology significantly. Europe can come out as the leading driver for automotive CNG/methane technologies.
Therefore a new deal has to be considered for energy and fuels for transportation sector. The greenhouse gas reduction effect of renewable types of methane is not considered by the European legislation, because vehicles are accounted based on their TtW (Tank to Wheel) CO2 emissions, while the legislation for fuel production process misses to account the CO2 emissions emitted during the combustion of a fuel.
It is recommended to account the CO2 emission caused by burning the fuel, as well as their compensation by sustainable e-fuel production, as “Life Cycle WtT-CO2 target” in the RED II+, which consist of 3 CO2 parts (g/MJ): emitted during fuel production/transportation, emitted by burning the fuel and captured during production process of renewable types of methane.
With such a regulation, renewable types of methane production can be triggered. Finally, at 100 % renewable types of methane use, the tailpipe CO2 of a CNG vehicle would not be harmful anymore, since a fully closed CO2 cycle had been established. In that case vehicle CO2 targets are becoming obsolete and it can be considered to replace them by efficiency class targets (A, B C,...) as already established for vehicles in the EU.
