Biofuel – DEUTZ opens first HVO filling station at its manufacturing unit web site in Cologne.
DEUTZ has opened a filling station for the newest era of biofuels (HVO) at its manufacturing unit web site in Cologne-Porz. All diesel-powered autos of DEUTZ AG can now be refueled on the web site with HVO. This covers your entire DEUTZ fleet in Cologne, comprising firm automobiles, forklift vehicles, check autos, service autos, and DEUTZ Safety autos. Gensets, for instance within the web site’s emergency energy mills, also can run on the choice gas.
HVO stands for ‘hydrotreated vegetable oil’ and is a second-generation biofuel that shouldn’t be confused with biodiesel. The renewable, paraffinic biofuel makes use of renewable uncooked supplies –reminiscent of used cooking oil, animal fat and residues from vegetable oil processing. Which means that the manufacturing of HVO doesn’t compete with meals manufacturing.
The swap to HVO will lead to a right away discount of the DEUTZ fleet’s environmental footprint, with out the necessity for costly and complicated retrofitting or replacements.
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Dr. Sebastian C. Schulte, DEUTZ CEO mentioned:
This step will assist to scale back our scope 1 emissions and brings us nearer to our objective of changing into a climate-neutral firm by 2050.
“Switching our fleet to HVO additionally demonstrates how diesel engines can instantly assist to mitigate local weather change, with minimal effort and value. An inside combustion engine is barely as soiled – or clear – because the gas it runs on. That’s the reason this know-how might be way more than only a stopgap.”
Dr. Markus Müller, DEUTZ CTO mentioned:
All DEUTZ engines are already accredited to be used with HVO.
“A few of our prospects are already utilizing the gas to energy their new autos. Now could be the time for incentives that encourage emission-intensive industries reminiscent of agriculture to change to different fuels like HVO. Everybody concerned in off-highway functions must embrace new applied sciences – and never simply new drive options but in addition different fuels.”
DEUTZ has already began this dialog with its logistics companions, as switching them to HVO would have a optimistic impression on the Cologne primarily based drive specialist’s scope 3 emissions.
DEUTZ will initially buy the gas, which is assured palm-oil free from Finnish firm NESTE, which has been creating renewable fuels since 1996. In Germany, HVO is at the moment solely accredited and accessible to be used in industrial autos. The introduction of HVO as a so-called XTL gas at public filling stations is anticipated within the coming months.
Highlights:
- Rapid discount of the DEUTZ fleet’s environmental footprint
- Initially for the DEUTZ fleet solely – talks with companions already below means
- HVO biofuel appropriate with all fashionable diesel engines – discount in CO2 of as much as 90 p.c[1]
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DEUTZ opens first HVO filling station at its manufacturing unit web site in Cologne, February 27, 2024
