Eni and BMW Group sign agreement to use HVO diesel biofuel to power corporate fleets

Eni and BMW Group announce an agreement to power the BMW vehicles of corporate fleets in Italy with HVOlution (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil), a diesel biofuel that is produced from 100% renewable feedstocks by Enilive.

Enilive is Eni’s company dedicated to products and services for a more sustainable mobility. With an approach that aims to support a successful energy transition through the usage of all available technologies, the BMW Group considers 100% pure HVO as an important solution towards an “Eligible Fuels only-fleet” for its customers, and as an effective product that can immediately contribute to decarbonize road transport.

BMW Group recently started its demo- and development diesel-fleets powered by pure HVO. In the vehicles of the fleets a new technical solution is being developed by the BMW Group: 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 for complete and transparent traceability of the fuel the vehicle has used.

The BMW corporate fleets involved in the initiative use pure HVO while travelling across Italy, Germany and Austria, countries where a network of about 1,700 Enilive Stations provides the product HVOlution (100% pure HVO).

This new agreement follows the announcement that Eni and BMW Italia ally for a more sustainable mobility: BMW Group support of the usage of Enilive HVO diesel biofuel is one of the pillars of the ongoing collaboration.

In accordance with the European fuel standard EN 15940, the BMW Group has approved the use of HVO diesel fuels for its Diesel models registered from late 2014 onwards and equipped with a Generation B diesel engine.