German block on EU’s ICE car ban throws spotlight on controversial ‘e-fuels’

A fresh political battle is brewing over the potential for hydrogen-based synthetic fuels, or e-fuels, to help decarbonize the transport sector after Europe’s biggest car market and economy threatens to sink the EU’s hopes of ending sales of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2035. In a last-minute U-turn, Germany last month said it would only back a new EU…