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This diesel is blended with petrodiesel and sold in Neste stations. A market is created because the European Union requires 5.75% of transport fuels should be biofuels by 2010. The EU further decided on 18 December, 2008, that by 2020, the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transportation be at least 10% of the final consumption of energy. Systems and regions without an electrical grid will be the long-term market for hydrogenated vegetable oils, as the EU prefers electrical use by factor 2.5. In the Helsinki area, the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council and the Helsinki City Transport conducted a three-year experiment by running buses with 25% NExBTL diesel at first, and then switching to 100% in 2008. The trial, which was the largest field test of a biofuel produced from renewable raw materials worldwide, was a success: local emissions were decreased significantly, with particle emissions decreased by 30% and nitrogen oxide emissions by 10%, with excellent winter performance and no problems with catalytic converters.
Germany requires the use of renewable fuel, therefore it is expected to be a major market for NExBTL.
Following a proposal by VDA, Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses recommend the biofuel NExBTL as an admixture to petrodiesel.
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