Solutions for the Future of Mobility 

Solutions for the Future of Mobility

From a purely physical standpoint, #mobility could be defined as the most efficient way of moving people or goods from point A to point B.  

For us, mobility represents something much more profound: it’s how people, ideas, and cultures connect. Mobility is about rethinking how we move, how we live, and how we interact with the world around us.  

An approach that considers the entire value chain  

The ultimate goal of #sustainablemobility is to create an efficient and innovative transportation solution that strikes a balance between environmental responsibility, sharing culture, and economic viability.   

We have committed to the total decarbonisation of all our products and processes to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the targets set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change.  

This commitment extends uniformly across our universe of satellite businesses, and mobility - on land and in other hard-to-abate sectors - is one of the many fields where we’re meeting these challenges head on.  

The path towards sustainable mobility   

Eni Sustainable Mobility S.p.A. is a 100% Eni-controlled company dedicated to sustainable mobility and uniquely positioned as a customer-focused multi-energy and multi-service business, supporting our #energytransition and eliminating the indirect Scope 3 emissions in the value chain over time. 

Eni Sustainable Mobility promotes sustainable mobility through a production line that runs along the entire value chain, from feedstocks, through biorefineries and onto the market, providing an integrated mix of solutions and technologies that includes biomethane, hydrogen, and electric vehicles, along with services like electric car sharing to reduce traffic congestion in cities.  

At the same time, we are also exploring other sustainable solutions like biofuels made from waste raw materials and vegetable residue. Eni HVOlution biofuel is a prime example of this, a diesel fuel produced from 100% renewable raw materials using our proprietary Ecofining™ technology and already approved for use in engines.  

 Beyond the city limits  

Mobility isn’t just limited to innovative urban and road transport solutions. It also includes other modes such as airplanes and maritime transport. And these are what we call “hard-to-abate” sectors because they’re considerably more difficult to decarbonize.  

But here too, we are committed to tackling this challenge through the use of proprietary and breakthrough technologies and by leveraging our expertise in research and technological innovation.  

“The production of SAFs is a very important achievement on our decarbonization path, with innovative technologies already available and concrete industrial initiatives, and fully reflects our pragmatic approach to energy transition.”  

Claudio Descalzi, Chief Executive Officer of Eni  

 Decarbonization takes to the skies  

Air transport is crucial for growth and development today, but it is also one of the sectors that poses the greatest concern in emissions terms. According to the IEA's Tracking Aviation Report (2020), the aviation sector is responsible for 2.8% of the world's fossil CO2 emissions and is among the fastest growing sources of emissions.  

While there are various proposals currently under development to reduce emissions, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the most practical and immediate solution for the decarbonization of the aviation sector, a path that was further enhanced by the EU’s recent approval to reduce aviation emissions by promoting sustainable fuels.  

SAF is a sustainable, non-conventional, alternative to fossil-based jet fuel made solely from waste materials from various sources such as used cooking oil (UCO), fats, vegetable oils, municipal waste and agricultural residues and not competing with the food chain.  

It can be used to refuel aircraft, as it has almost identical chemical and physical characteristics to traditional aviation fuels. This allows it to be deployed using the same refuelling infrastructure and without the need to adapt aircraft or their engines.  

Our new SAF, called Eni Biojet, is made from 100% bio components and produced solely from waste raw materials, animal fats, and used vegetable oils. In May 2023, Kenya Airways became the first African airline to use Eni Sustainable Mobility's sustainable aviation fuel for a long-haul flight from Nairobi to Amsterdam. The Boeing 787-800 (B787-8) Dreamliner was powered by a mix of JetA1 fuel and Eni Biojet, produced in the Gela biorefinery and processed in our refinery in Livorno. 

Our long-term commitment to sustainable mobility 

Achieving sustainable mobility is an ongoing process that requires a forward-thinking mix of solutions that runs from feedstocks to biorefineries and distribution networks and on-the-go services that work together seamlessly. 

We’re working hard to transform this vision into a reality by investing in research and development, and building partnerships with academia, civil society, institutions and of course the countries we operate in, including Kenya, where we have initiated projects to produce vegetable oils from raw materials that do not compete with the food chain, building vertical integration initiatives and agreements with local farmers and cooperatives to develop agro-industrial supply chains for the production of raw materials for biorefineries.  

It’s this vision and our shared determination that will help us build a future where mobility connects people, ideas, and cultures in a way that is sustainable, accessible, and equitable for all.