Could Methanol-powered Trucks Help Solve The Climate Crisis? - Farizon G2M 

What a great video. To be completely honest, if it were any country other than China, I'd have no hopes for this product. But considering how heavily Geely is diving into this, I'd love to see this grow even larger.

That was wonderful and very informative.

Thanks and amazed by there is a already complete chain of eco fuel system from fuel generation to heavy duty vehicle.

Very interesting - great video! I’m not sold on the ‘Green’ nature of this though. Taking hydrogen from coke production is hardly green, and there's no capture of CO2 from the air so it isn't circular either. Electrolysis also requires energy - there is clearly the opportunity for this to be generated by renewables but right now it’s much more efficient to put that energy into a battery. But - while industry is still kicking out CO2 and hydrogen it’s probably better to use it in place of mined hydrocarbons (ie. diesel and petrol)- it all ends up in the atmosphere either way but some emissions have been saved. I had no idea this sort of thing was so prevalent there! 👍

Methanol is defined as green, when: A. The hydrogen is produced from renewable sources (green hydrogen); B. The CO2 is derived from either carbon capture and storage (CCS) or direct air capture. Including CCS into the definition is a bit of a problem. Many processes with CCS still get their hydrocarbons from fossil fuels. The CO2 is captured, but not stored. Instead it's converted into methanol. Methanol emits CO2 when burned. So methanol from CCS delays emissions, rather then avoiding them. When used as a fuel for trucks, it replaces the use of diesel, so the net result will probably be positive. So, let's call it 'greenish'. Nice and informative video though!

I think the range extender for electric battery has not to do so much with range but with the cold start during winter. I know that Emgrand Hybrid has a similar dual version in order to solve the cold start during winter.

Very interesting video! Thank you!

Glad that there are people exploring new possibilities. Nice one

You failed to point out that the methanol truck used 2.4 times as much fuel so to get the same range you need to carry more fuel or have more refuelling. Not a problem with the truck as you can carry additional tanks behind the cab in front of the trailer like gas powered trucks but not so easy in cars.

oh my, what a swell car review, it is really one of its kind!!!

Geely as an automaker have always been ambitious and methodical in their approach. Their product lineup, the menagerie of brands under their belt and their current global expansion as far reflects that.

Yes, now your large truck can burn rubber indefinitely.

This truck looks futuristic, like people would be saying oohh it's a copy of scannia, it's a copy of their mother 🙄Chinese like copying, am sick 🤮 and tired of those comments 😊

It isn't a terrible idea but describing this as green is absurd. Any CO2 captured as a gaseous emission from an industry powered by grey forms of power or grey fuels is by definition grey, viz. the net zeroiness of downstream fuel synthesis and combustion doesn't change a) the greyness of upstream fuel combustion that gave rise to the emissions in the first place or b) the probable greyness of the hydrogen used in methanol synthesis. Furthermore in this 'circular economy' what we have is a pseudo circle. Can the emissions recovery process be applied to all industrial emissions? The answer must surely be, No! Now, even if the electrolysis process results in no problematic emissions combustion of the synthetic fuel certainly does. So, the putative net zeroiness of the synthetic fuel itself - it is claimed that combustion of the fuel doesn't make things worse (even if equally it doesn't make things better) - but you only get to that result by not doing your sums right. First, electrolysis needs to be powered as well and if the energy source - electricity probably - isn't green then the electrolysis process isn't green either. We are now seeing grey everywhere, in the chemical components that must be combined to make the fuel and in the very process of making the synthetic fuel by grey energy inputs to that process (if they are grey). Pseudo circularity doesn't win the prize! Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that the fuel synthesis, if not the synthesised fuel is entirely green, entirely based on electricity from solar or wind generation. That starts making the economy looking more genuinely circular doesn't it? It does, but there is a problem. If you had the green electricity in the first place why are you using it to create this fuel? Stored electical energy (in a battery) could be used to power heavy duty trucks (not just passenger vehicles). Indeed, that is the most straightforward thing to do if all sources of energy are green. All roads lead back to green electricity. There will still be carbon emissions from an economy and transport system wholly running on renewable/green energy. Recovering and transforming those emissions would make sense but would road transport be the best use of a (net zero) fuel of that sort. I doubt it but the point is arguable. I am pretty sure the most sensible way forward and least expensive way forward, as well, in a post ICE era, is for road transport, including heavy trucking, to electrify.

It' s much easier to follow the Scandinavian approach to produce methanol through biomass gasification with or without external hydrogen input. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g1FD9ymSQeU.htmlsi=waanSDDJ9QPkdiJr That way with a minimun amount of wood/biomass we canvproduce relatively high amount of liquid methanol with tiny amount of heat/electricity (particularly in a high efficiency methanol fuel cell that is ideal as range extender in hybrids)

if the powertrain needs to burn for its power then it is dirty full stop so no no no

hydrogen does not exist unless made