Mazda Just Proved that Internal Combustion Engines Still Have a Future
18th March 2023
The most recent exercise of this quest came in the form of filling up an unmodified MX-5 Miata with a synthetic fossil-free fuel, and testing it across a 1000-mile road trip. Throughout the trip, the MX-5 was also thrashed at various tracks to see how the fuel would deal with the abuse.
Simply put, the synthetic fuel operated much like normal gasoline would have, without the emission drawbacks of the latter.
Well, if you’re burning something for fuel, you will have emissions–the only question is what kind. The article, perhaps significantly, doesn’t say what kind of emissions this synthetic fuel produces, although they do confess that it’s made from agricultural waste and is composed of hydrocarbons. I suspect that this was just a setup to bash it in favor of the Holy Electric Vehicle, which occupies almost half of the article.