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What you are forgetting is that diesel engines only work with diesel and gasoline ones only work with gasoline. This creates a natural incentive for the customers to not mix this up.

In the e-fuel vs trad-fuel story you do not have that incentive.

What you DO have, is an incentive to actually do the switch. Projections put e-fuel production costs at a 1500% premium over fossil fuels and wide spread availability is actually a hard scientific problem as even the announced global production capacity* of e-fuels is only enough for a few thousand vehicles.

* Apparently, to date, the biggest portion of announced e-fuel production misses either an energy provider or financial backing or both.

A good German summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrudYCzh2E



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