奥迪发明环保柴油，原料就是二氧化碳和水

    

    这个项目下一阶段要攻克的将是工业化量产，因为未来数月Sunfire的环保柴油产能只有3000升。

    在新闻稿中，Sunfire首席技术官克里斯蒂安·范·奥尔斯豪森表示：“只要接到订单，我们就可以把这项技术商业化。”

    奥迪发言人称，该项目仍然“只是研究项目”，商业化还“需要几年时间”。不过，奥迪已将类似的合成燃料推向市场，即奥迪A3 g-tron使用的压缩天然气。

    这则消息发布的时间略有讽刺意味，因为就在此前几天，奥迪母公司大众汽车董事长费迪南德·皮耶希宣布辞职。有报道称，皮耶希和大众首席执行官马丁·文德恩在某些问题上存在分歧，其中就包括奥迪技术创新不足的问题（奥迪发言人对这种说法矢口否认，称该报道“纯属臆断”）。目前奥迪是大众旗下主要的豪华汽车品牌，也是推动利润增长的关键。（财富中文网）

    译者：Charlie

    审校：夏林

    The next stage for the project will be industrial scale production because Sunfire only has capacity to produce 3,000 liters (792.5 gal.) of e-diesel in coming months.

    “If we get the first sales order, we will be ready to commercialize our technology,” said Sunfire CTO Christian von Olshausen in a company press release.

    A spokesman for Audi said the project is still “purely a research project” and that commercialization is still “several years away”, but the company has already brought to market similar synthetic fuel in the form of compressed natural gas that is used in its Audi A3 g-tron cars.

    The timing of the announcement is ironic, coming only days after the resignation of Ferdinand Pi?ch as chairman of Audi’s parent group Volkswagen AG . Pi?ch had fallen out with chief executive Martin Winterkorn, reportedly over issues including a lack of technical innovation at Audi, VW’s main luxury brand and a key driver of profits (the Audi spokesman dismissed the reports as “pure speculation”).