Companies launch Tour d’Europe to demonstrate renewable fuels

In Finland, Tour d’Europe is an initiative demonstrating the availability and potential of renewable fuels to help drive decarbonization and contribute to climate neutrality today and for decades to come. The Tour d’Europe involves 20 different companies, associations and institutions from across the automotive and fuels value chain. 

Cars and trucks bearing a distinctive “Tour d’Europe” logo started on the March 25, a three-month road trip across several countries to demonstrate the decarbonization potential provided by renewable fuels, to raise awareness about their accessibility and ease of use in Europe, and to underline their significant role in reaching the EU’s objective of climate neutrality by 2050.
The Tour d’Europe, spanning from North to South and West to East, will show citizens and policymakers across the EU that renewable fuels are a flexible, technology-open approach to significant emission reductions in road transport alongside other technologies that can decarbonize road transport (such as electrification and hydrogen). As an existing, readily-available solution, renewable fuels are delivering measurable greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction results already today.
During the Tour d’Europe, light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles powered by renewable fuels will stop in multiple cities hosting events that enable a dialogue with local stakeholders on the importance of reducing transport emissions and mitigating climate change together. The Tour d’Europe cars and trucks are equipped with an additional software tool “digital fuel twin” (DFT) that will verify and prove the use of renewable fuels and the resulting reductions in CO2 emissions. 

The Tour d’Europe will cross the finish line on June 23 in Brussels, with a display of vehicles and technologies outside the European Parliament. The event will feature the release of a report verifying the use of renewable fuels as well as the greenhouse gas emission reduction received during the Tour d’Europe and demonstrating the effectiveness of the digital fuel twin (DFT).