Representatives from the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) talked with farm broadcasters at the recent NAFB Trade Talk about a number of topics, including GREET and HEFF.
ACE CEO Brian Jennings says they support requiring EPA to update its outdated lifecycle modeling for ethanol and biodiesel, by adopting the latest Argonne National Lab’s Greenhouse Gas and Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) Model.
“The top scientists in the world developed this model to help estimate the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of all sorts of transportation fuels and technologies,” said Jennings. “So this is the gold standard scientific model.”
2023 NAFB Trade Talk - Brian Jennings, ACE 6:18
ACE Chief Marketing Officer Ron Lamberty talked about his baby HEFF, which stands for Hybrid Electric Flex Fuel vehicle. “It’s a 2019 Ford Fusion hybrid that we had converted using converters Eflexfuel.com sells primarily just to see what the carbon intensity would be,” said Lamberty.
ACE launched the project in 2021 to disrupt the ‘EV-only’ narrative by showing a standard hybrid vehicle powered by ethanol blends can have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions as low or lower than plug-in electrics.
Learn more in this interview with Lamberty.
2023 NAFB Trade Talk - Ron Lamberty, ACE 9:11