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june 20, 2017 - FCA Corporate

FCA biomethane at the “Transports G7” in Cagliari

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is leading the initiatives organised by the side of the #g7 ministerial meetings once again. #fca is present today in #cagliari at "Nice to Meet You G7!" organised by the Italian #g7 presidency after the summit in Taormina (of which #fca was official partner and vehicle fleet supplier) and in the wake of the "Natural gas and biomethane, national excellences for sustainability" conference held on June 8 in Bologna for the Environment #g7. The one-day #event is being organised to prepare for the meeting between the seven Transport Ministers which will be held in the city on June 21 and 22, in which innovative projects will be presented with the goal of illustrating the best sustainability and technological excellence of transportation in Italy.
In this scope, #fca is presenting the #BioMetaNow experiment conducted with the CAP Group, the company which manages the Integrated Water Service in the Metropolitan City of Milan. The project consists in driving a Fiat Panda Natural Power for 80 thousand kilometres over a few months using the biomethane produced by the CAP Group from sewage sludge and waste water as fuel. The car will fill up at the Bresso-Niguarda purifying plant in Milan, where the first Italian locally produced biomethane fuel station is about to open. The Bresso purifying plant alone could produce 342 thousand kilometres of biomethane, sufficient to fuel 416 vehicles for 20 thousand kilometres a year: over 8 million 300 thousand kilometres as a whole, equivalent to 200 times the circumference of the Earth.
Furthermore, biomethane - a bio-fuel which can be made from municipal and farming or animal farming waste - contributes to solving the problem of recovering this type of waste in circular economic perspective and its use is fundamental to reach the objective established by the European Union of 10 percent of renewable energy in transports by 2020. In well-to-wheel perspective, i.e. considering the entire energy production and use cycle, biomethane can generate the same advantages in terms of CO2 emissions as electric cars using energy produced from renewable sources: equal to 97 percent less than petrol. Furthermore, it is a renewable and therefore virtually inexhaustible biofuel: Italy will have a biomethane production potential in 2030 from farming alone equal to approximately 8 thousand millions of cubic metres and all methane fuelled vehicles and the distribution network are ready to use this biofuel as from today.
The innovative project was presented by Elisa Boscherini (FCA Italy Institutional Relations Manager) and Michele Falcone (CAP Group Managing Director) in the scope of the projects selected by Cluster Trasporti Italia 2020, the association recognised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research as technological innovation reference in the transport and land and sea mobility systems sector.
The cluster brings together the country's most important national, industrial and scientific organisations operating in the area of road, railway, waterway and inter-modal mobility with the goal of creating synergies between the various supply chains and identifying the future search and innovation directions in the land and sea transport sector. In particular, the association intends to develop the attitude towards a system approach which aims at bolstering Italian made excellences: over 200 thousand workers, 6.4 billion Euro of R&D investment and of 33.3 million Euro in proceeds.
Some eighty Italian organisations are currently members of Cluster Trasporti Italia 2020: universities, research agencies, research and education organisations, public-private associations, trade unions and small, medium and large enterprises, including CRF, Iveco, Magneti Marelli and #fca, which is chairing the cluster for the second term running.