System 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has expressed his need to maintain the internal-combustion engine alive in motorsport’s prime echelon, regardless of the push by some automakers and governments to completely embrace electrical autos.
In an in-depth interview with Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore printed on Monday, Domenicali stated F1 “won’t ever go electrical,” when requested how the game suits within the period of sustainability and electrical mobility.
He added that F1 goals to be carbon impartial by 2030, and that the lofty aim could be achieved by switching to 100% sustainable gasoline—one thing F1 and its companions are growing in time for the 2026 season.
Sustainable gasoline, usually known as E-fuel, is any gasoline the place the carbon circle is totally impartial so the carbon utilized to supply the gasoline is an identical quantity because the carbon emitted from the internal-combustion engine when burning the gasoline. The manufacturing course of sometimes includes some type of carbon seize know-how.
Key companions in F1’s sustainable gasoline challenge embrace motorsport’s organizing physique, the FIA, in addition to Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s nationwide oil firm and a serious sponsor of F1. Porsche and its companions have already got a pilot plant in Chile producing sustainable gasoline.
However F1 is just not solely growing the gasoline to be used in its race automobiles. The gasoline is being developed with a view to having it will definitely produced in portions enough sufficient to provide most automobiles internationally.
In his interview, Domenicali stated by 2035, when some governments together with the European Union have mandated that solely autos with zero carbon emissions could be bought, there’ll nonetheless be round two billion automobiles on the street outfitted with internal-combustion engines, and that the carbon emissions of those might doubtlessly be offset with sustainable gasoline, just like the one F1 is growing.
“Zero emissions could be achieved with out having to vary engines or throw away your entire fleet of autos that already exists,” he stated.
This text was initially printed by Motor Authority, an editorial associate of ClassicCars.com.