NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2018--
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 Wire)
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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