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« BackNews: Bentley Committed To Biofuel After Goodwood Success

Bentley Committed To Biofuel After Goodwood Success

Luxury carmaker Bentley has been busy undertaking tank fitting work at its plant in Crewe after a highly successful performance trial using biofuel at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The 1,200-litre biofuel tank was installed after the outstanding success of the prestige marquee at the event, in which the six-strong Bentley Heritage Collection and press fleet managed to complete all 32 hill climbs while reducing carbon emissions by 85 per cent, the Manufacturer reports.

Bentley is using a second-generation biofuel, which means it is a straightforward replacement for gasoline with no need for any cars or engines to be modified. The key difference is that while first-generation biofuel was made from crops grown on land that might otherwise have been used to grow food, second-generation fuel is recycled waste.

This includes waste from agriculture, forestry and food products, with the breakdown of the material using fermentation to produce ethanol, which is then dehydrated to create ethylene.

Bentley has already made progress in developing real green credentials, with its Crewe plant being certified carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust in 2018, the first luxury car plant in Britain to gain such an accolade.  

A key benefit of the use of biofuels to power Bentley’s lies in the reality of its plans to join the electric vehicle revolution.

While the maker intends all its new models to be battery-powered by the end of this decade, this will still leave the overwhelming majority of Bentleys on the road reliant on the internal combustion engine, witharound 84 per cent of the Bentley’s ever made estimated to still be on the road today.

By using biofuels, every one of those cars will still be able to go on running, but do so without having so much as a drop of petrol or diesel in their tanks.