The Transportation Energy Institute is known for bringing together transportation stakeholders to deliver objective, balanced research and analysis concerning all fuels. Because of our non-advocacy approach, we are a trusted source in the industry to tackle challenges facing the market in a collaborative way.
With over 300 million combustion engine vehicles on the road today, decarbonization has emerged as a subject of great interest in the transportation industry. The requirements and approach are very different for light duty vs medium and heavy-duty vehicles and so warrant dedicated research, discussion and collaboration.
Petroleum Fuels Power the Economy and the World.
Crude oil was discovered nearly 150 years ago, and today, we’re still deriving most of our energy needs from petroleum fuels. Their energy density, availability and transportability make petroleum fuels a good fit for the power-hungry economy.
No energy source is perfect, though, and there are also challenges with petroleum fuels. Largely environmental and supply-oriented, many of these issues are within the scope of the petroleum industry to positively affect, but some issues are external and difficult to account for.
Still, petroleum fuels are what power our transportation networks, our supply chains, our businesses, our homes, and most of the modern comforts we’ve come to rely on.
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Reducing lifecycle carbon emissions through biofuels today.
While there seems to be a focus of energy on this drive by a lot of stakeholders that the solution to carbon mitigation in transportation can only be via electrification, it is not the only solution. We are going to have a long period of time, perhaps decades, where we’re going to be driving combustion engines through burning liquid fuels, and biofuels have an opportunity to reduce the carbon intensity of a liquid fuel market.
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