{"id":3506,"date":"2023-10-30T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterlombardomobilita.it\/wg-methane-and-biomethane\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:16:16","slug":"wg-methane-and-biomethane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clusterlombardomobilita.it\/en\/wg-methane-and-biomethane\/","title":{"rendered":"WG Renewable Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Renewable Fuels Working Group is established in order not to dissipate the know-how built up over a century of vehicle history, safeguarding the principle of “technology neutrality” for different solutions according to which the desired environmental result is to be pursued and incentivized regardless of the fuel or technological solution. The different alternatives can – indeed must – coexist, each in its own distinctive market mission (for areas, areas or services) that can maximize its characteristics and results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\n As reported in the MLC Position Paper, CNG will still be the most readily accessible competitor to fossil fuels for many years to come, boasting excellent “environmental” performance and currently unparalleled operating economy and reliability<\/strong>
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For this reason, it is essential that
\n EU, national, regional and local institutions ensure a balanced allocation of resources<\/strong>
\n<\/b> for both investment and management, taking into account the timing of development and deployment of different technologies and related facilities.<\/p>\n

Excise taxes and incentives, which directly impact vehicle operating costs, should be calculated by favoring
\n solutions that ensure low emissions (not just locally) and decarbonization, such as biomethane, electricity from renewable sources, or green hydrogen<\/strong>
\n<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The industrial production of vehicles, important components (e.g., batteries) and plants must be approached with an expanded logic of the type
\n Life Cycle Analysis<\/strong>
\n<\/b>,
\n which takes into account all stages from raw material extraction to final recovery and disposal (cradle to grave)<\/strong>
\n<\/b>: for example, initial analyses by the Polytechnic University of Milan have shown that electric vehicles, with the upstream impacts related to lithium and rare earth collection, treatment, and transport, and downstream impacts related to battery and motor disposal, have economic, environmental, and social advantages and disadvantages that require further investigation.<\/p>\n

Investment, especially public investment, in the establishment of refueling networks\/stations, must be
\n consistent with technology deployment capabilities and pursued consistently with respect to policies initiated, as in the case of LNG\/CNG refueling networks<\/strong>
\n<\/b>.<\/p>\n


\n In this context, because of its ability to give immediate results with respect to the issues of environmental sustainability, investment and operating costs, reliability, and flexibility of use, it is important to encourage the development of CNG in road transport in Italy<\/strong>
\n<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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  1. in its various versions (CNG for cars and urban vehicles and LNG for freight vehicles and suburban buses), mainly favoring:\n