verbiogas biofuel crowned ‘Innovation of Reason 2012’ by popular German magazines

Zörbig/Berlin, 3 February 2012 • VERBIO’s biogas made from waste has garnered the ‘Innovation of Reason 2012’ award from the German consumer magazine Guter Rat and the weekly SUPERillu. The special ‘Innovation of Reason’ prize for pioneering concepts and products in the transport sector has been presented by the jury at the annual ‘Cars of Reason’ awards ceremony since 2007. This year the prize was presented by Dr. Andreas Scheuer, parliamentary permanent secretary to the German Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

For Claus Sauter, CEO of VERBIO AG, the award clearly confirms biogas’s huge potential as a fuel of the future: “It’s a great honour for VERBIO that the jury has declared our new fuel verbiogas an Innovation of Reason. Our biogas helps motorists save money and protect the environment. After all, verbiogas is entirely produced without the use of raw foodstuffs and cuts CO2 emissions by up to 90 percent compared to fossil fuels.”

This view is shared by Werner Zedler, the editor-in-chief of Guter Rat: “A biofuel made from agricultural waste – and hence definitely not from foodstuffs – stands to play an important part in reducing our dependency on oil and improving the environmental footprint of individual mobility.”

Natural gas drivers can already fill up on verbiogas at nearly 50 filling stations in Germany, including in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, Augsburg, Dessau, Wernigerode, Wittenberg and Brunswick.