MADRID, 20 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish riders Toni Bou and Gabriel Marcelli, from the Repsol Honda Trial team, have already been able to carry out a satisfactory test with the competition biofuel designed and produced at the Repsol Technology Lab.
As reported by the team on Tuesday, Bou and Marcelli are working with researchers from this innovation center to produce new renewable fuels with the aim of reducing emissions, which come from organic waste and which emit up to 90 percent less than net emissions from CO2 than conventional ones.
The impressions of both are key to the development of this fuel, designed to maintain the same performance as traditional fuel and significantly reduce net CO2 emissions.
Bou and Marcelli have informed Repsol that the motorcycle’s performance has been identical to that with conventional fuel, which is a good basis for further progress in the upcoming tests with the aim of making the engine-fuel combination work at full capacity.
“It has been a very positive test; I am sure that Repsol will be able to obtain valuable information to take a further step in the development of biofuel. The most important thing is that we have not noticed the difference between this fuel and the usual one and we have been able to train under normal conditions” Bou pointed out.
For his part, Marcelli admits that “the performance of this new biofuel is like normal fuel.” “We are looking forward to carrying out more tests of this type to be able to provide Repsol with more information and that, little by little, we can use it in more training sessions and competitions. The idea is no longer just to match the normal fuel efficiency, but to improve it,” he remarked. .
In this way, the multi-energy company maintains its “clear commitment to renewable fuels and their application as a solution to the decarbonisation of mobility and, especially, of competition”.
For this reason, in 2022, it has supplied this biofuel to the French F4 and also to Isidre Esteve, who will participate in the Dakar with a fuel made from 75 percent raw materials of sustainable origin, while the MotoGP rider Marc Márquez made also a test in the Jarama a few weeks ago, with a good result.
Repsol’s relationship with the world of motor racing now exceeds 50 years, a period in which the company has developed its products with the aim of obtaining the best performance for the products that reach its customers.
Repsol is committed to sustainability and energy efficiency, thinking about the future to develop a better fuel, and, in this sense, the competition continues to serve as a test bench for the development of its present and future products, so that they They are in their service stations available to their customers.
The Spanish company has been working on the development of biofuels for many years with the intention of making them a real alternative that complements other ways of decarbonising mobility, such as electrification or renewable hydrogen to reduce transport emissions in the next years.
Thus, during the first half of 2023, it will start up the first advanced biofuels plant in Spain, in Cartagena, which will produce 250,000 tons of renewable fuels from waste.
On the other hand, the multi-energy company is also advancing at its synthetic fuels plant in Bilbao, which will begin production in the demonstration phase in 2024. These plants play a leading role in Repsol’s goal of reaching production capacity of 1.3 million tons of renewable fuels in 2025 and more than 2 million in 2030, thus leading this market in the Iberian Peninsula and moving decisively towards zero net emissions in 2050.