{"id":18290,"date":"2026-07-29T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2026\/07\/29\/schwarz-group-prefers-to-stick-with-internal-combustion-engines\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:50:17","slug":"schwarz-group-prefers-to-stick-with-internal-combustion-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2026\/07\/29\/schwarz-group-prefers-to-stick-with-internal-combustion-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schwarz Group Prefers to Stick with Internal Combustion Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why is it so important that synthetic fuels be urgently recognized as an equal component of the transportation transition\u2014just like electric cars?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite simple: In many areas, electric cars currently just don&#8217;t fully meet the actual needs of many vehicle owners and businesses that rely on daily vehicle use\u2014especially when compared to internal combustion engine vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>For example, according to WELT, the Schwarz Group (Lidl Group) is now opting to stick with internal combustion engines, despite all the tempting government tax breaks available for company vehicles!<\/p>\n<p>The reason: the low residual values of electric cars on the German used-car market when they are resold. According to WELT, the Schwarz Group\u2014which has traditionally been cost-conscious\u2014considers the high depreciation of electric cars to be too great. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good thing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/gruppe.schwarz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schwarz Group<\/a> \u2014which is very environmentally conscious and forward-thinking\u2014can significantly reduce CO2 emissions from its existing fleet of internal-combustion vehicles by using synthetic fuels such as eFuels and HVO100.<\/p>\n<p>Openness to technology is and will always be the magic word for a successful transportation transition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/wirtschaft\/article6a63698eb9a97a04edfd93d9\/lidl-konzern-darum-kehrt-die-schwarz-gruppe-zurueck-zu-verbrenner-dienstwagen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.welt.de\/wirtschaft\/article6a63698eb9a97a04edfd93d9\/lidl-konzern-darum-kehrt-die-schwarz-gruppe-zurueck-zu-verbrenner-dienstwagen.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it so important that synthetic fuels be urgently recognized as an equal component of the transportation transition\u2014just like electric cars? It&#8217;s quite simple: In many areas, electric cars currently just don&#8217;t fully meet the actual needs of many vehicle owners and businesses that rely on daily vehicle use\u2014especially when compared to internal combustion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18287,"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-18290","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\/18290","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=18290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18294,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions\/18294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}