Porsche AG Tests Evolve Lubricants, Inc. Renewable EvoSyn™ Non-Petroleum Motor Oil

[buster]

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Porsche AG Tests Evolve Lubricants, Inc. Renewable EvoSyn™ Non-Petroleum Motor Oil

Evolve Lubricants, Inc. to publish paper covering results of Porsche AG non-petroleum motor oil test....

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Interesting paper on the Porsche study.

Also, 12 quarts of 0w20 - $234. (84% renewable baseoil).

 

[aquariuscsm]

Man at $20 a quart, imagine if you accidentally spilled one while doing an oil change!

 

[Dave P.]

Mobil 1 might get jealous! They've had a pretty long standing relationship with Porsche. Probably afraid they're going to get dumped for the younger, more exciting motor oil with nice cans (or bottles).

 

[bbhero]

Anything " renewable".... Is going to be expensive like 95 plus percent of the time. And in a lot of cases extremely expensive.

 

[bluesubie]

Anything " renewable".... Is going to be expensive like 95 plus percent of the time. And in a lot of cases extremely expensive.

Especially at 84% biobased.

Has there even been anything over 30% to date?

 

[OVERKILL]

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Interesting paper on the Porsche study.

Also, 12 quarts of 0w20 - $234. (84% renewable baseoil).

So it's basically A40/C40 (based on the test doc). Odd (or perhaps I should say suspicious) that they only did the oxidation test against 4cSt PAO and Group III:

 

[OVERKILL]

What's super funky is if you look at the 0W-40:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EvoSyn-0W40-PDS.pdf

Oddities:
- Pour point is -36C, so barely below the MRV test temp.
- HTHS is 4.88cP ??!?!??!?!?!

Nice high flash point (220C).

@High Performance Lubricants what do you make of this?

 

[High Performance Lubricants]

Their chart above lists Novvi base oil on the bottom. We are familiar with Novvi and they make excellent products. In my experience they are a net gain when you use them appropriately. I see your point on the HTHS but honestly don’t have the direct experience to offer you valid input. Sorry for that but I don’t want to insert opinion without something to back it up.

David

 

[OVERKILL]

Ahhh, OK, yes, we've discussed the NOVVI base oils before I think on here?

SynNova: Sustainable Synthetic Base Oil (SSBO)

100% renewable, plant-derived, synthetic base oil with category-leading stability and performance. Drop-in ready to meet the toughest challenges.

novvi.com

They post this chart:

Nice low Noack. They appear to have three different base oils:

1. The 4cSt stuff:

https://novvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Novvi-SynNova-4-TDS.pdf

2. The 9cSt stuff:

https://novvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Novvi-SynNova-9-TDS-1.pdf

3. The EL series 5.4cSt stuff:

https://novvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Novvi-EL26-TDS-1.pdf

Oddly, they do not list Noack, despite showing it in that earlier image


For comparison, here's Mobil's Esterex NP343, which is a 4.3cSt Polyol ester base:

 

[RDY4WAR]

The HTHS is most likely a typo. I think 3.88 cP sounds more realistic.

 

[OVERKILL]

The HTHS is most likely a typo. I think 3.88 cP sounds more realistic.

I'd have thought so too, but:
0W-20 is 2.91:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EvoSyn-0W20-PDS.pdf

5W-20 is 3.36:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EvoSyn-5W20-PDS.pdf

5W-30 is 4.09:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EvoSyn-5W30-PDS.pdf

5W-40 is 3.97:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EvoSyn-5W40-PDS.pdf

Their Racing 10W-40 is 6.17:

https://evolvelube.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ECORSA-Motorsport-10W40-PDS.pdf

 

[RDY4WAR]

I'm remembering more of the conversations I had about the SSBOs a while back. This may not be that surprising.

Here's the specs for SynNova 4 SSBO.

Here it is compared to SpectraSyn 4 (PAO) and Yubase 4 Plus (Group III+) base oils.