**Porsche's Revolutionary E-Fuel: A Game-Changer for Eco-Conscious Drivers**

As we embark on a grand tour in this sleek Porsche, I'm excited to share with you the latest innovation from the iconic brand - e-fuel. This remarkable fuel is not only eco-friendly but also offers an exciting alternative to traditional gasoline. We're currently cruising down a dirt road, heading towards the breathtaking national park of Torres Del Paine, and this e-fuel is put to the test.

**The E-Fuel Advantage**

One of the most impressive aspects of this e-fuel is that its emissions are basically identical to those of regular gasoline. However, what sets it apart is its carbon neutrality. The reason behind this is the abundance of green energy in Chile, specifically wind power, which generates electricity for the electrolysis process.

**The Journey Begins**

As we journey through South America, I'm reminded that if the electricity used for electrolysis wasn't clean, the entire concept would be compromised. Thankfully, our e-fuel is as green as it gets, straight from the factory where they make it. However, this convenience comes at a cost - transporting this fuel to other parts of the world requires ships and planes, which run on traditional fossil fuels.

**The Logistics of E-Fuel**

Porsche's goal is to produce gallons of e-fuel by 2030, but let's put that into perspective: we use more gas in one day in the United States alone than Porsche plans to produce in a year. When you consider that electricity can be generated and fed into the grid for use in EVs, it raises questions about the efficiency of this process.

**The Cost of E-Fuel**

Currently, a gallon of laboratory-grown e-fuel costs around $40. While this may seem steep, the point is not to replace traditional gasoline or EVs but to prove that combustible fuel can be made without adding carbon to the atmosphere.

**Conclusion**

Porsche has successfully proved that e-fuel is possible, and while it may take time for this technology to become more accessible and affordable, it's a significant step forward. As we continue our journey, we'll explore more about the potential of e-fuel and its implications on the automotive industry.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eninside the gas tank of this car is a fuel that's made out of nothing but water and air it's a synthetic gasoline that's made right here in Chile without a single drop of crude oil and it costs 40 dollars a gallon today we're at the end of the world in South America to get our hands on Porsche's future gas that I've been hearing so much about so we're gonna go to the factory to see how they make the synthetic sausage we're gonna drive on it and we're going to see if this is really the future for us gas guzzlers let's go baby now if you're wondering why we even need synthetic gasoline it's because of the traditional gasoline that we use has a big problem it's made off old dead dinosaurs traditionally crude oil is extracted from the ground it's sent through a refining process and then it's shipped to gas stations all over the world where it will find its way into a gas tank like yours but the key issue here is that during this process hydrocarbons are taken from the ground and then they're released into the atmosphere when you burn them in your engine so that means by burning traditional gasoline we're adding carbon to the atmosphere and that's not exactly what we want you ever heard of the ozone oh you haven't well let me tell you what it's one of the most important zones of all time there are speed zones there's the friend zone the danger zone and of course there's the ozone arguably the ozone is the most important but back to gasoline the problem with gasoline compounds when you consider how much energy is required to refine the stuff produce it and distribute it all over the world just adds more carbon to the atmosphere the world's attempting to switch to alternative energy sources like like electric cars and that's great but the truth is we're still going to need internal combustion engines for a long time and if you're anything like me you're still going to want them forever because they're good they're fun they're loud and they make you smile from your butthole yeah baby and the other big problem with traditional gasoline there's only so many dead dinosaurs in the ground it's a finite resource that we're eventually going to run out of the world basically runs on the stuff right now in the U.S alone we burn 369 million gallons of gasoline per day that's insane and you want to know something else I recently learned that there are other places in the world besides the US which brings us to where we are now Chile more specifically we're in Punta Arenas aka the end of the world this is as far south as you can go before you hit Antarctica it's kind of literally in the middle of nowhere and the reason we're here is because of this little Factory right here which is producing an alternative fuel that a lot of people say could save the internal Russian engine and maybe even replace electric vehicles no gas baby we're running low I need fuel I need fuel well luckily I just so happen to be foreign now I mentioned hydrocarbons earlier those are chemicals that contain hydrogen and carbon and the main ingredients in gasoline plus a few other things like ethanol and fuel additives but hydrocarbons are tough to come by that's why we like crude oil so much it's full of them but technically hydrogen and carbon are all around us made out of nothing but water and air there's hydrogen and water and carbon in the air if you could pull those elements out of the air and water and find a way to Mush them together you'd have a hydrocarbon and that's exactly what this Factory was built to do I was hoping it'd look a little bit more like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with a river of gasoline flowing through a magical Chilean Forest but it's not it's basically a fuel Refinery the factory dudes walk me through a tour of the plant and I think I figured out the gist of how they're making the synthetic gas stuff first things first you need hydrogen which brings us to ingredient number one water water is composed of two hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule H2O ever heard of it you run a constant electrical current through the water you using a process called electrolysis hydrogen splits off and gets collected at the negative pole and oxygen is released into the atmosphere easy peasy and that brings us to ingredient number two carbon dioxide one of the main greenhouse gases released from our cars when we burn fossil fuels in other words these guys have figured out how to repurpose our pollution back into fuel which is exactly what makes this fuel carbon neutral so how do they do it with one of these a direct air capture device these machines suck in tons of air sending them through various heated filters containing solvents that capture the carbon dioxide dirty air comes in clean air comes out and concentrated CO2 is captured along the way now if you're wondering where that direct air capture machine is well it's not technically built yet not at this Factory at least this e-fuel plant is still under construction so they're not able to make their own carbon just yet instead they truck it in so you've got H2 and CO2 at this point now you got to mix them together through a process called methanol synthesis which happens in this rig right here through a series of science experiments and heat and pressure exchanges you end up with methanol but we're not quite done yet you still got to synthesize methanol into gasoline using a process called methanol to gasoline synthesis methanol to gasoline methanol methanol to gasoline synthesis this reactor runs the methanol through another complicated process of heat and vaporization which produces two products a heavy and a light gasoline finally the heavy and light gases are Blended and refined and the end result is a premium octane gasoline blend apparently it's molecularly identical to the stuff you'd find in a normal gas pump but I'll let my nose be the judge of that can we smell it yeah of course that's the real stuff oh yeah that smells right but smell is one thing I really want to know how does it drive dude it feels just like normal I guess that's what you should expect thank you all right we're all e-fueled up in case you're wondering like I was it's effectively the same as regular gas you don't need a special tuner on the stuff or seems to be working car is working it's basically literally gasoline now let's go burn some God that's fun and it sounds great and it's eco-friendly so every time you smash the gas pedal you don't have to feel bad and you can still call it a gas pedal we're on a dirt road heading for a national park called Torres Del Pine lots of cool views and a pretty good test of this e-fuel it's a pretty cool car to be doing today this is working the car is fast you would have no idea it wasn't regular old school gasoline just from driving it yeah this isn't this isn't where you normally Norma Turbo S but it's doing great this is a grand tour and we're on a grand tour I'm gonna try something worth pointing out that the emissions coming out the tailpipe of this car are basically the same as the emissions that would be coming out of the tailpipe of any car running on normal gasoline but the way that this fuel is carbon neutral is where they get that carbon now the reason we're down here is because there's an abundance of green energy specifically wind power it's windy as heck yeah supposed to stop this whole clean fuel thing wouldn't actually be that clean if the electricity they were using to perform the electrolysis wasn't clean if it were electricity that were made by burning fossil fuel well this whole thing would kind of be pointless and now for us this ski fuel is as green as it gets because we got it straight from the mothership we pumped it straight from the factory where they make it but if that's not the case if you're not going to drive to Chile to fill up your car well that's where the green starts to turn a little bit Brown Now where's these damn horses I was promised horses I came here for horses it looks cool out there a real off-road machine so to get this stuff to Kansas or Quebec or wherever the hell you are you got to transport it and the means that we have to do that now are ships and planes and guess what they run on they run on the old-fashioned stuff and they could not have picked a further away from everything place to make this stuff I mean we are out here and you've got to consider the amount of this stuff they're able to make currently they're only making now Porsche's goal is to make gallons by 2030. but you got to remember we use more gas than that every single day in the United States alone when you consider you could just be making electricity and putting that into the grid for use in EVS you got to wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze all those extra steps along the way cost extra money yeah I like that bye bye horsies I love horses and that brings us to the cost how much is a gallon of laboratory grown gas currently well they're pretty tight-lipped about it but it sounds like it's currently about 40 dollars a gallon how much you put in there I put 40 liters but that is not the point the point is not to replace traditional gasoline the point is not to replace EVS the point is to prove that we can make a combustible gasoline replacement that doesn't add any carbon to the atmosphere and frankly that's what's happening that's what we're doing right now that's what we're driving Porsche has proved that it's possible they've made this stuff and that is the biggest step so from here it's figuring out production Logistics and all that nerdy stuff but the cool part is done we got e-fuel baby all right so realistically it's going to be a long time before you're putting this stuff in your tank if ever but that's not the point of it any new technology starts out a little expensive and a little impractical but with enough time those Eggheads are going to come up with some breakthroughs to make this stuff cheaper at a much bigger scale but at the end of the day I'm just glad that Porsche is doing the hard work to innovate gasoline to keep the engines we know and love on the road and speaking of being on the road while we're down here in South America we're going to be making another stop a little further north and making another video so if you want to see it subscribe to the channel thanks for watching see you later it's lunch time baby and that was a herd of llamas I believeinside the gas tank of this car is a fuel that's made out of nothing but water and air it's a synthetic gasoline that's made right here in Chile without a single drop of crude oil and it costs 40 dollars a gallon today we're at the end of the world in South America to get our hands on Porsche's future gas that I've been hearing so much about so we're gonna go to the factory to see how they make the synthetic sausage we're gonna drive on it and we're going to see if this is really the future for us gas guzzlers let's go baby now if you're wondering why we even need synthetic gasoline it's because of the traditional gasoline that we use has a big problem it's made off old dead dinosaurs traditionally crude oil is extracted from the ground it's sent through a refining process and then it's shipped to gas stations all over the world where it will find its way into a gas tank like yours but the key issue here is that during this process hydrocarbons are taken from the ground and then they're released into the atmosphere when you burn them in your engine so that means by burning traditional gasoline we're adding carbon to the atmosphere and that's not exactly what we want you ever heard of the ozone oh you haven't well let me tell you what it's one of the most important zones of all time there are speed zones there's the friend zone the danger zone and of course there's the ozone arguably the ozone is the most important but back to gasoline the problem with gasoline compounds when you consider how much energy is required to refine the stuff produce it and distribute it all over the world just adds more carbon to the atmosphere the world's attempting to switch to alternative energy sources like like electric cars and that's great but the truth is we're still going to need internal combustion engines for a long time and if you're anything like me you're still going to want them forever because they're good they're fun they're loud and they make you smile from your butthole yeah baby and the other big problem with traditional gasoline there's only so many dead dinosaurs in the ground it's a finite resource that we're eventually going to run out of the world basically runs on the stuff right now in the U.S alone we burn 369 million gallons of gasoline per day that's insane and you want to know something else I recently learned that there are other places in the world besides the US which brings us to where we are now Chile more specifically we're in Punta Arenas aka the end of the world this is as far south as you can go before you hit Antarctica it's kind of literally in the middle of nowhere and the reason we're here is because of this little Factory right here which is producing an alternative fuel that a lot of people say could save the internal Russian engine and maybe even replace electric vehicles no gas baby we're running low I need fuel I need fuel well luckily I just so happen to be foreign now I mentioned hydrocarbons earlier those are chemicals that contain hydrogen and carbon and the main ingredients in gasoline plus a few other things like ethanol and fuel additives but hydrocarbons are tough to come by that's why we like crude oil so much it's full of them but technically hydrogen and carbon are all around us made out of nothing but water and air there's hydrogen and water and carbon in the air if you could pull those elements out of the air and water and find a way to Mush them together you'd have a hydrocarbon and that's exactly what this Factory was built to do I was hoping it'd look a little bit more like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with a river of gasoline flowing through a magical Chilean Forest but it's not it's basically a fuel Refinery the factory dudes walk me through a tour of the plant and I think I figured out the gist of how they're making the synthetic gas stuff first things first you need hydrogen which brings us to ingredient number one water water is composed of two hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule H2O ever heard of it you run a constant electrical current through the water you using a process called electrolysis hydrogen splits off and gets collected at the negative pole and oxygen is released into the atmosphere easy peasy and that brings us to ingredient number two carbon dioxide one of the main greenhouse gases released from our cars when we burn fossil fuels in other words these guys have figured out how to repurpose our pollution back into fuel which is exactly what makes this fuel carbon neutral so how do they do it with one of these a direct air capture device these machines suck in tons of air sending them through various heated filters containing solvents that capture the carbon dioxide dirty air comes in clean air comes out and concentrated CO2 is captured along the way now if you're wondering where that direct air capture machine is well it's not technically built yet not at this Factory at least this e-fuel plant is still under construction so they're not able to make their own carbon just yet instead they truck it in so you've got H2 and CO2 at this point now you got to mix them together through a process called methanol synthesis which happens in this rig right here through a series of science experiments and heat and pressure exchanges you end up with methanol but we're not quite done yet you still got to synthesize methanol into gasoline using a process called methanol to gasoline synthesis methanol to gasoline methanol methanol to gasoline synthesis this reactor runs the methanol through another complicated process of heat and vaporization which produces two products a heavy and a light gasoline finally the heavy and light gases are Blended and refined and the end result is a premium octane gasoline blend apparently it's molecularly identical to the stuff you'd find in a normal gas pump but I'll let my nose be the judge of that can we smell it yeah of course that's the real stuff oh yeah that smells right but smell is one thing I really want to know how does it drive dude it feels just like normal I guess that's what you should expect thank you all right we're all e-fueled up in case you're wondering like I was it's effectively the same as regular gas you don't need a special tuner on the stuff or seems to be working car is working it's basically literally gasoline now let's go burn some God that's fun and it sounds great and it's eco-friendly so every time you smash the gas pedal you don't have to feel bad and you can still call it a gas pedal we're on a dirt road heading for a national park called Torres Del Pine lots of cool views and a pretty good test of this e-fuel it's a pretty cool car to be doing today this is working the car is fast you would have no idea it wasn't regular old school gasoline just from driving it yeah this isn't this isn't where you normally Norma Turbo S but it's doing great this is a grand tour and we're on a grand tour I'm gonna try something worth pointing out that the emissions coming out the tailpipe of this car are basically the same as the emissions that would be coming out of the tailpipe of any car running on normal gasoline but the way that this fuel is carbon neutral is where they get that carbon now the reason we're down here is because there's an abundance of green energy specifically wind power it's windy as heck yeah supposed to stop this whole clean fuel thing wouldn't actually be that clean if the electricity they were using to perform the electrolysis wasn't clean if it were electricity that were made by burning fossil fuel well this whole thing would kind of be pointless and now for us this ski fuel is as green as it gets because we got it straight from the mothership we pumped it straight from the factory where they make it but if that's not the case if you're not going to drive to Chile to fill up your car well that's where the green starts to turn a little bit Brown Now where's these damn horses I was promised horses I came here for horses it looks cool out there a real off-road machine so to get this stuff to Kansas or Quebec or wherever the hell you are you got to transport it and the means that we have to do that now are ships and planes and guess what they run on they run on the old-fashioned stuff and they could not have picked a further away from everything place to make this stuff I mean we are out here and you've got to consider the amount of this stuff they're able to make currently they're only making now Porsche's goal is to make gallons by 2030. but you got to remember we use more gas than that every single day in the United States alone when you consider you could just be making electricity and putting that into the grid for use in EVS you got to wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze all those extra steps along the way cost extra money yeah I like that bye bye horsies I love horses and that brings us to the cost how much is a gallon of laboratory grown gas currently well they're pretty tight-lipped about it but it sounds like it's currently about 40 dollars a gallon how much you put in there I put 40 liters but that is not the point the point is not to replace traditional gasoline the point is not to replace EVS the point is to prove that we can make a combustible gasoline replacement that doesn't add any carbon to the atmosphere and frankly that's what's happening that's what we're doing right now that's what we're driving Porsche has proved that it's possible they've made this stuff and that is the biggest step so from here it's figuring out production Logistics and all that nerdy stuff but the cool part is done we got e-fuel baby all right so realistically it's going to be a long time before you're putting this stuff in your tank if ever but that's not the point of it any new technology starts out a little expensive and a little impractical but with enough time those Eggheads are going to come up with some breakthroughs to make this stuff cheaper at a much bigger scale but at the end of the day I'm just glad that Porsche is doing the hard work to innovate gasoline to keep the engines we know and love on the road and speaking of being on the road while we're down here in South America we're going to be making another stop a little further north and making another video so if you want to see it subscribe to the channel thanks for watching see you later it's lunch time baby and that was a herd of llamas I believe