There is a lot of talk about e-fuels as an alternative since not all vehicles can switch to electric overnight. But it is not something that Mercedes will focus on. In a statement, CEO Ola Källenius said that electric cars are the future for them, not e-fuels. Synthetic fuel may be useful for cars that are already on the road, but not for future vehicles.
Mercedes has a strategy that clearly relies on the electric drive. We will not fundamentally change these because of the decisions on e-fuels. From 2025, we will be aligning all of our new vehicle architectures solely for the electric drive. Of the electricity that you generate with a wind turbine, for example, around 70 percent of the energy arrives on the road as driving force in an electric car, while it is significantly less in the case of a combustion engine. The efficiency is simply sensational.
–europe.autonews.com
In the future, Ola believes that cities like London and Paris may ban fossil-fuel cars altogether, regardless of the fuel they run on. And even though today’s electric cars are based on fairly new technology, he believes they will be superior to fossil-fuel cars by the end of the decade.
