BMW corporate-fleet vehicles to run on 100% renewable diesel

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Eni announced July 13 that it and BMW Group have agreed to power the BMW vehicles of corporate fleets in Italy with Eni’s branded 100 percent renewable diesel, also known as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), called HVOlution.

With an approach that aims to support a successful energy transition through the usage of all available technologies, the BMW Group considers 100 percent pure HVO as an important solution towards decarbonizing road transport.

In 2025, across the entire supply chain, the average CO2-equivalent emissions reduction of Enilive HVO was 79.5 percent compared to the reference fossil mix.

BMW Group recently started its demonstration of using 100 percent HVO in its diesel fleets.

Refueling data from vehicles is being compared with data from the fleet operators’ payment system to seamlessly trace the fuel used by each vehicle.

This allows a complete and transparent traceability of the fuel the vehicle has used.

The BMW corporate fleets involved in the initiative use pure HVO while traveling across Italy, Germany and Austria, countries where a network of about 1,700 Enilive stations provides HVOlution.

To raise awareness about biofuels, BMW Italia is providing an Enilive HVOlution voucher to all customers of new BMW diesel vehicles in Italy.

“We are very happy to collaborate with Eni in our test and demo fleet,” said Martin Kaufmann, the senior vice president of powertrain development at BMW Group. “In this case this has more than one benefit. Eni is using BMW vehicles in their corporate fleet, at the same time is Enilive a major force in pushing renewable fuels in Europe. With HVOlution, Enilive has a very good product available delivering CO2e-emissions reduction every day.”

With more than 250 million existing vehicles in Europe, the CO2e footprint can be improved if the proportion of renewable fuels is increased.

This further underlines BMW Group’s commitment to enabling immediate and practical emissions-reduction measures already available today.

“The development of our cooperation with BMW Group and BMW Italia marks another significant step toward the decarbonization of road transport and represents a tangible example of integrated partnership between the automotive and energy industries,” said Enilive CEO Stefano Ballista. “Enilive biorefineries in Venice and Gela process mainly waste and residues, such as used cooking oil and animal fats, to produce HVO biofuels, that can be used in all validated diesel engines. As a drop-in fuel, pure HVO does not require engines or distribution infrastructure modifications, making it a readily available and effective solution to accelerate the decarbonization of transport today.”