Porsche has joined a bunch of buyers making a $260 million fairness wager on a startup that goals to harness wind energy to make a gasoline substitute.

Porsche is investing $75 million for a 12.5 p.c stake in electricity-based gasoline developer HIF World, the corporate stated Wednesday in an announcement.

HIF is constructing a plant in Chile to provide electricity-based artificial fuels from hydrogen and carbon dioxide utilizing wind power, beginning midyear.

HIF World plans to construct 12 business websites in Texas, Chile and Australia, representing $50 billion of investments, to provide 150,000 barrels of gasoline a day utilizing 25 gigawatts of renewables and about 25 million tons per yr of carbon dioxide, HIF World’s Government Director Meg Mild stated in an interview.

The agency additionally attracted backing from funds managed by EIG World Vitality Companions, Baker Hughes and majority shareholder Andes Mining & Vitality of Chile, the startup stated in a separate assertion.

Mild’s household workplace, Gemstone Investments, additionally invested. Porsche government board member Michael Steiner and EIG Chairman and Chief Government Officer Blair Thomas additionally joined HIF World’s board.

Porsche has been investing in different fuels as a method to energy fashions like the long-lasting 911 sports activities automobile in future, which the carmaker plans to proceed providing as a combustion engine mannequin.

The Volkswagen Group model is spending greater than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the course of the subsequent decade on different power sources like photo voltaic techniques, wind generators and e-fuels.