Horse reveals methanol-powered range-extender for electric cars

Horse D20 uses clever motor tech and an extremely efficient methanol-burning engine to slash emissions Alternative powertrain progress may have swung inexorably in favour of BEVs, but there’s a big wide world out there where liquid fuels are still in demand. This month, Toyota, BMW and Repsol began a pilot scheme in Spain to demonstrate how existing vehicles can run exclusively on Repsol’s fully renewable petrol, Nexa 95. Bosch is also a collaborator in the project, contributing its ‘digital fuel tracking solution’. Liquid fuel is big in China, but rather than petrol or diesel we’re talking about methanol, of which China accounts for around 60% of the world’s production. The bad…

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