While batteries and hydrogen fuel cells get headlines, renewable natural gas is quietly slashing carbon emissions for its users.
Battery-electric, natural gas, and hydrogen fuel cell trucks from the Port of Long Beach helped celebrate the new Port of Long Beach bridge in a clean trucks parade.
A procession of clean, zero-emissions and near-zero-emissions drayage trucks were a highlight of ceremonies marking the opening of a new bridge at the Port of Long Beach.
Estes Express Lines will soon be adding 50 new natural gas trucks fueled with Clean Energy Fuels’ Redeem renewable natural gas to its growing sustainable fleet.
According to ACT Research, both U.S. and Canadian Class 8 natural gas truck retail sales for the first five months of 2020 dropped 22% year-to-date over 2019, as published in its quarterly report, Alternative Fuels Quarterly.
Electric trucks are getting all the headlines right now, notes HDT executive contributing editor Rolf Lockwood. But there are still plenty of viable internal combustion options still on the table, too.
At a conference at Texas A&M University's Transportation Technology Institute, Shell also introduced a newly-blended 0W/30 engine oil designed for fleets operating in harsh winter climates.
UPS will purchase more than 6,000 natural gas-powered trucks beginning in 2020 and running through 2022.
Total Transportation Services announced that it is replacing its entire diesel trucking fleet with natural gas trucks to reduce emissions and plans to fuel the new vehicles with renewable natural gas.
Retail sales of U.S. and Canadian Class 8 Natural Gas trucks have increased in 2019, reversing the declining trend from the year before, according to ACT Research’s Alternative Fuels Quarterly.