Mercedes-Benz announced this Thursday, the 23rd, that it will take to the UN conference on climate change, COP30, a solution that, according to partial results of tests on roads in Brazil, allows for a 65% reduction in carbon emissions. This means that vehicles fueled with biofuel no longer emit 532 tons of carbon dioxide on a well-to-wheel basis – that is, from producing the fuel to burning it in trucks and buses.
The comparison is made between BeVant, a biofuel from Be8, leader in biodiesel production in Brazil, with B15, the biofuel already sold at gas stations with a mixture of 15% biodiesel in diesel. BeVant can be used 100% pure and is produced from vegetable oils, animal fats and recycled oils, among other raw materials.
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A Mercedes-Benz truck and bus fueled with the BeVant are making a journey of more than 4 thousand kilometers, leaving Passo Fundo, in Rio Grande do Sul, towards Belém, in Pará, where the UN conference will be held between November 10th and 21st. Two other vehicles with the B15 diesel are also running for comparison.
Halfway through, the decarbonization solution will be presented on October 30th to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília. With the arrival in Belém scheduled for November 4th, after the vehicles have passed through nine states, the automaker will have a complete comparison of emissions.
A partial result, however, has already been obtained with emissions measured on the route from Passo Fundo to São Bernardo do Campo, in ABC São Paulo, where the Mercedes-Benz truck factory is located. This Thursday, the automaker reported that it had found a 99% reduction in greenhouse gases in the tank-to-wheel cycle – that is, from fuel supply to fuel burning, including the absorption of emissions by vegetable plantations that serve as raw material for biofuel. In the well-to-wheel criterion, the reduction in emissions is 65%. It is not less because the comparison is already made with a commercial fuel that has a percentage of biodiesel.
Director of institutional relations and communications at Mercedes-Benz, Luiz Carlos Moraes highlighted that the automaker believes in multi-solutions for replacing fossil fuels in the transport sector. While in Europe electromobility is already a reality, in Brazil biofuels allow for an “extremely comfortable situation” in the energy transition, said the executive.
“All technological routes are part of the solution to decarbonization,” declared Moraes in a presentation to journalists at Mercedes-Benz headquarters in São Bernardo do Campo. The automaker’s vehicles used in the tests transport 20 tons of food that will be donated to needy communities in Belém.
