MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The driver Isidre Esteve (Repsol Toyota Rally Team) highlighted that “the results” obtained with the biofuel produced 75 percent from Repsol organic waste are “superior” to those obtained “with the gasoline used up to now “.
“From the first moment, when we were working with the Toyota engineers on the ‘mapping’ of the engine, because we need a good ‘mapping’ to take advantage of the full potential of the new biofuel, it was really surprising. We began to have results superior to those we obtained with the gasoline used up to now. And that was what encouraged us to take this biofuel to the Dakar 2023,” explained the ilerdense rider in statements shared by Repsol.
Isidre Esteve and his co-driver Txema Villalobos will compete in the next edition of the Dakar, which begins on December 31, with a renewable fuel produced 75 percent from organic waste. The new advanced biofuel has been designed at the Repsol Technology Lab using recycled materials such as oil from frying and agroforestry residues.
The pilot insisted that the project “was not born with the exclusive objective of using the new biofuel for competition.” “We use competition as the best test bench to develop it, because it is a fuel that will reach our daily lives, our mobility, with the aim of decarbonizing it,” he added.
For the first time, Esteve and Villalobos will have around 6,000 liters of this advanced biofuel throughout the 14 stages and the prologue of the Dakar, with which they have already competed in 2022 from start to finish in the rallies in Morocco -with seventh place absolute, his best result in a test of the World Rally-Raid- and Andalusia -Top 10-.
The head of Product Design at Repsol Technology Lab, Dolores Cárdenas, explained what advanced biofuels consist of. “They are fuels produced from organic waste from different sources, such as used frying oils, agroforestry remains, the organic fraction of urban waste. Through different transformation processes, we arrive at fuels that allow us to reduce our carbon footprint around 90 percent. In addition, they are supported by the circular economy,” he concluded.