North America’s Long-Haul Freight Trucks Can Now Go beyond Carbon Neutrality and Save SIignificant Money

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May 11, 2022

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(California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership) During a press event at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP) collaborated with Cummins Inc. to display its near-zero emissions X15N 15-liter natural gas engine for the North American freight transportation market. In tandem with the announcement, CNGVP announced that in 2021 the energy weighted carbon intensity value of all natural gas used for transportation fuel in California was below zero at negative 33.36 gCO2e/MJ, according to recently released data from the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program.

The pairing of this engine and fuel combination will enable shippers and carriers to immediately and cost-effectively achieve not only net-zero carbon operations, but negative carbon emissions, enabling them to make unmatched progress toward their corporate sustainability and ESG goals while maintaining operational profitability. Trucks powered by Cummins’ X15N engine will have no operational restrictions and will have a lower total cost of operations (TCO) than their diesel counterparts.

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In 2021, approximately 98% of natural gas used for transportation in California came from methane emitted by renewable sources, including landfill waste, livestock manure, wastewater treatment plants, food and green waste, dead trees, and agricultural waste. Capturing and harnessing the methane emissions from these sources as a renewable fuel is the most immediate and effective step that can be taken to reduce GHG emissions, as reported by the world’s leading climate scientists during the COP26 summit in Scotland in November 2021.

Growth in the volume of swine and dairy gas being reported into California’s LCFS program is the main factor continuing to drive the carbon intensity value of natural gas transportation fuel lower. With new production facilities continuing to come online, California-produced RNG is anticipated to have an average energy weighted carbon intensity of negative 101.74 gCO2e/MJ by January 2024.

“With the carbon intensity value of natural gas transportation fuel continuing to plunge further below zero as California’s RNG supply ramps up, the economic and environmental benefits of operating trucks with the Cummins X15N 15-liter natural gas engine will continue to improve for years to come,” said Ashley Remillard, vice president of legal and government affairs at Hexagon Agility, and vice president of CNGVP. READ MORE

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