A completely production standard Mazda MX-5 using zero fossil fuel sustainable fuel has driven 1000-miles around the UK from circuit to circuit.

Using Coryton’s Sustain fuel, which is created using agricultural waste such as straw, by-products and waste from crops, the drive demonstrates that sustainable fossil-free fuels can also be a solution for decarbonising the many millions of combustion engine cars that will remain on roads for decades to come.

David Richardson, director at Coryton, said: “As this challenge has shown, sustainable fuel is a real and credible player in our efforts towards net-zero. It's a solution that performs incredibly well, works with our existing vehicles and has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of CO2 we currently release compared to traditional fossil fuels”.

The UK alone currently has 36 million combustion engine cars on the roads, and even as EVs begin to take over there will be both a rump of many ICE cars and areas where it is not as practical to switch to electric. Mazda itself has said that it will continue its electrification plans, but these will go hand in hand with the development of advanced internal combustion engine.

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