At the beginning
March 2007
As informed in the website eco2site.com, vegetable oils were used as fuel for the first time in 1900. It was Rudolph Diesel who first used them in his compression ignition engine and who forecast the future use of biofuels.
During World War II, due to the fossil fuel shortage, a research about vegetable diesel was carried out in Brazil by Otto and Vivacqua, but it wasn’t until 1970 that biodiesel was significantly developed due to the energetic crisis of that time and to the high price of oil.
The first technical tests with biodiesel were carried out in Austria and Germany, 1982, but the first pilot establishment to produce RME (Rapeseed Methyl Esther) was built in Silberberg (Austria) in 1985.
Nowadays, countries such as Germany, Austria, Canada, U.S.A., France, Italy, Malaysia and Sweden are pioneers in the production, testing and use of biodiesel in cars.
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