Energy Carriers for Powertrains - for a clean and efficient mobility

This roadmap provides an overview of energy carriers and producti on routes that offer significant potential to contribute to decarbonisation of the transport system’s energy supply in view of the above 2050 target. For each of the options the state - of - the art and future R&D needs are identified. Based on the current und erstanding of the status and potential of various options, milestones are defined for development and implementation of various options resulting in a roadmap for research and development that is intended to provide useful input to the European Commission’ s Horizon 2020 programme as well as the R&D strategies of industry and research organisations throughout Europe. The ‘Clean Power for Transport Package’ (CPT) from the European Commission also provides direction for the development of alternative energies and associated infrastructure in each Member State. This initiative recently proposed by the EC’s DG MOVE has as its main objective the provision of a sufficient infrastructure network for alternative fuels. The main alternative fuels with a potential for decarbonisation considered by the CPT proposal for further infrastructure deployment are electricity, hydrogen, biofuels and methane (CNG and LNG).