{"id":18163,"date":"2026-06-09T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2026\/06\/09\/new-hvo-study-why-not-continue-to-use-the-existing-diesel-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:33:00","slug":"new-hvo-study-why-not-continue-to-use-the-existing-diesel-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2026\/06\/09\/new-hvo-study-why-not-continue-to-use-the-existing-diesel-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"New HVO study: Why not continue to use the existing diesel infrastructure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hasn&#8217;t the one-sided, German &#8220;electric-only&#8221; approach of recent years long since become obsolete? Of course: YES! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A look at other European countries in particular shows that technological openness works. An important building block: HVO100.<br \/>\nSweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy are showing us how it&#8217;s done &#8211; with several hundred HVO100 filling stations each and widespread use in everyday life. \ud83d\udc49 The existing diesel infrastructure can continue to be used.  <\/p>\n<p>The new &#8220;HVO100 overview study&#8221; by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.htwsaar.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saarland University of Applied Sciences<\/a> confirms this potential for Germany too:<br \/>\n1. HVO100 is available and regulated by standards (EN 15940)<br \/>\n2. The infrastructure is basically in place<br \/>\n3. The savings in new CO2 emissions would be considerable<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it is clear that a sustainable raw material base is crucial. Only certified residual and waste materials with a transparent supply chain guarantee the desired positive properties of HVO. <\/p>\n<p>What needs to happen for us to get more HVO filling stations in Germany more quickly?<br \/>\nQuite simply, the first thing we need now is a reliable political framework that enables the market ramp-up of synthetic fuels &#8211; as a complement to other technologies.<\/p>\n<p><em>To the study<\/em>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.htwsaar.de\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/%C3%9Cbersichtsstudie_HVO100_Prof._Heinze__IAP_an_der_htw_saar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.htwsaar.de\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/%C3%9Cbersichtsstudie_HVO100_Prof._Heinze__IAP_an_der_htw_saar.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasn&#8217;t the one-sided, German &#8220;electric-only&#8221; approach of recent years long since become obsolete? Of course: YES! A look at other European countries in particular shows that technological openness works. An important building block: HVO100. Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy are showing us how it&#8217;s done &#8211; with several hundred HVO100 filling stations each and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_efuels_review_status":"","_efuels_reject_reason":"","_efuels_reject_code":"","_efuels_rejected_by":0,"_efuels_rejected_at":"","_efuels_approved_by":0,"_efuels_approved_at":"","_efuels_relevanz_score":0,"_efuels_quelle":"","_efuels_notion_id":"","_efuels_anweisungen":"","_efuels_bild_modus":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-fuels-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}