Trucking Firms Deploy Ultra Clean Near-Zero RNG Trucks at Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
May 08 2018 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Six trucking firms operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach are deploying trucks powered by Cummins Westport (CWI)
near-zero ISX12N engines, and fueled with Clean Energy Fuels
Corp.’s (Nasdaq: CLNE) Redeem™ brand renewable natural gas (RNG) in
an effort to reduce emissions and improve air quality in the ports
and surrounding communities.
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Clean zero-emissions trucks are being
deployed in CA ports to improve air quality. (Photo: Business
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The project’s goal is to introduce this ultra clean technology,
which is 90 percent to 99 percent cleaner than existing port
trucks, to the port drayage industry. This project aims to inspire
greater interest in near-zero RNG trucks, particularly with the
incentive funding that California is providing to help truckers
transition to this clean technology. Near-zero trucks are also one
of the strategies for reducing emissions from trucks under the
ports’ recent update to their Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP).
“The realization by trucking companies that they need to do
something to meet the upcoming and anticipated stricter emissions
requirements in California is beginning to settle in,” said Greg
Roche, Clean Energy’s vice president of sustainable trucking.
“Fortunately, there are many ways to take advantage of grants and
other resources to make the transition to the new engine technology
and clean RNG virtually painless. We applaud these first-movers in
being leaders in doing their part to make the air we all breathe
cleaner.”
The California Energy Commission and the South Coast Air Quality
Management District provided funding for 20 near-zero Class 8
trucks. The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach provided funding
for two additional near-zero trucks. The first four near-zero
trucks have been successfully operating since mid-2017 and an
additional four have been operating since February 2018.
“The California Energy Commission is pleased to have supported
the deployment of near-zero emissions trucks powered by Cummins
Westport’s advanced engines with our partners, the South Coast Air
Quality Management District and Clean Energy,” said Energy
Commissioner Janea A. Scott. “Demonstration projects, like those
being carried out by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, help
show there are viable cleaner, more sustainable freight
technologies available today and highlight the role these
technologies can play as the State transitions to zero and near
zero emission technologies to help achieve federal air quality
standards and the state’s greenhouse gas goals.”
Project participants include Total Transportation Services, Inc.
(TTSI), 4Gen Logistics, Orange Avenue Express, CR&R, and
Pacific 9 Transportation.
The ultra clean CWI engines achieve the lowest emissions of any
heavy-duty engine used in any truck in North America, yet deliver
diesel caliber performance with reliability and durability.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and California
Air Resources Board (CARB) certified these engines in December 2017
at CARB’s optional low-NOx standard of 0.02 g-NOx/bhp-hr, 90
percent lower NOx emissions than the current EPA NOx standard. In
fact, the new engines were tested as low as 0.01 g-NOx/bhp-hr,
achieving virtually zero tailpipe emissions. Factory production of
ISX12N engines began in February and they are soon expected to be
powering many more trucks on California roads.
“TTSI has now been testing the new CWI natural gas engines since
last year and have found that they work terrifically,” said Vic
LaRosa, President of TTSI. “We have run the trucks hard – in and
out of the ports for long hours in all kinds of conditions – and
have had no issues. TTSI is committed to going above and beyond
what we can towards a more sustainable future and transitioning to
renewable natural gas has made it easy.”
All these trucks will be fueling at Clean Energy’s network of
California stations with Redeem fuel, which reduces greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions by 70 percent versus diesel. RNG is the cleanest
fuel for trucking today, with some GHG sources even reducing GHG by
over 100 percent.
Pacific 9 Transportation will soon deploy 20 other RNG-powered
trucks in addition to their grant-funded ultra low-NOx trucks.
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach enacted the latest
version of their CAAP in November 2017, which adopts far reaching
strategies to further reduce air emissions and support California’s
vision for more sustainable freight movement. Part of the CAAP
could dramatically change the makeup of the 16,000 heavy-duty
trucks that move in and out of the ports. The CAAP envisions
transitioning the current fleet of port trucks to clean trucks
through a new set of provisions that will begin to be implemented
this year.
About Clean Energy
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is the leading provider of natural gas
fuel and renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel for transportation in
North America. We build and operate compressed natural gas (CNG)
and liquefied natural gas stations (LNG) and deliver more CNG, LNG
and RNG vehicle fuel than any other company in the U.S. Clean
Energy sells Redeem RNG fuel and believes it is the cleanest
transportation fuel commercially available, reducing greenhouse gas
emissions by up to 70%. For more information, visit
www.CleanEnergyFuels.com.
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