Fuels

Less than a week before the EU vote to force European car manufacturers to cut their cars’ carbon emissions by 55 per cent by 2030, the German Transport Minister Volker Wissing has thrown a spanner the works. He has announced that Germany will abstain unless explicit provision is made that will allow Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles to be registered after that date if they run exclusively on synthetic fuels produced using green electricity.

In the latest round of funding from The Green Heat Network, seven state-of-the-art heating schemes will share a total of £91m to invest in projects which will include Britain’s first geothermal heat network in Cornwall.