据今日油价19月14日报道，虽然主要国际石油公司购买电动汽车和充电网络业务,沙特阿美石油继续押注运输业的石油需求, 每年投资数千万美元用于支持开发更清洁、更高效的内燃机（ICES）。
《南华早报》引述阿美公司研发中心首席技术师Amer Ahmad Amer的话表示：“我们的业务主要是液态烃燃料，因此，我们的目标是确保将其对环境的影响降低到对内燃机保持竞争力的程度。”
沙特阿美没有把赌注押在电气化上，而是把赌注加倍押在石油上，希望提高汽油和柴油发动机的效率，减少污染。沙特对内燃机的投资也正值主要传统汽车制造商将数十亿美元重新投入电动汽车，挑战特斯拉之际。
沙特阿美认为，石油需求尚未见顶，就中期而言，石油仍将是运输行业的主要能源来源。
据《南华早报》报道，Amer表示:“从短期到中期，直到2040年左右，我们最大的冲击来自于内燃机的改进，直到大量采用(可持续的纯电动)交通工具。”
沙特阿美正在与沙特阿拉伯的阿卜杜拉国王科技大学(KAUST)合作，建立的“清洁燃烧研究中心”，致力于研发更高效、更环保的内燃机。
洪伟立 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
The World’s Largest Oil Company Fights To Save Gasoline Engines
While major international oil companies are buying into electric mobility and charging network businesses, Saudi oil giant Aramco continues to bet on oil demand in the transportation sector, investing “tens of millions of US dollars” every year to develop and support the development of vehicles with cleaner and more efficient internal combustion engines (ICEs).
“Our business is [mainly] in liquid hydrocarbon fuel, [so] we aim to make sure its environmental impact is reduced to a point where it remains competitive for internal combustion engines,” South China Morning Post quoted Amer Ahmad Amer, Chief technologist at Aramco’s research and development center, as saying recently at a research facility in Saudi Arabia.
Rather than betting on electrification, Saudi Aramco is doubling down on oil, looking to make gasoline and diesel engines more efficient and less polluting. The Saudi investment in internal combustion engines also comes at a time when major legacy automakers are redirecting billions of U.S. dollars into electric vehicles (EVs) to challenge Tesla.
Aramco believes that peak oil demand is nowhere in sight and that oil will continue to be the dominant source of energy in the transportation sector in the medium term.
“The biggest bang for us in the short to midterm until around 2040 is from improvements on the internal combustion engines until mass adoption of [sustainable pure electric] transport,” Amer said, as carried by South China Morning Post.
Saudi Aramco is collaborating with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, in the so-called ‘Clean Combustion Research Center’ to work on more efficient and less polluting combustion engines.
