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Meet Cummins' New Natural Gas Truck Engine [Podcast]

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June 29, 2022

Cummins is betting its new X15N 15-liter natural gas engine is going to change the market for natural-gas-powered trucks. HDT's Jim Park stopped by the Cummins booth at ACT Expo recently to learn more.

This episode of HDT Talks Trucking is sponsored by Clarience Technologies.

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Puneet Jhawar, the general manager of Cummins global natural gas business, walks us through Cummins’ reasons for developing this new engine and explains why it’s different from any previous natural gas engines the company has been involved with and how it fits in to emissions-reduction goals and regulations.

  • What makes this engine different?

  • Cummins' "fuel-agnostic" approach

  • Meeting environmental regulations

  • Hydrogen version in the works

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