The company presented the complete cycle of biomethane in agriculture at Agrishow 2023. During the trade fair, held in Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo, Brazil), it also showed off a full range of technologies and solutions to implement independent energy production and a carbon-neutral virtuous cycle in agriculture.
The company displayed its HPDI™ fuel system on trucks equipped with its commercially available LNG and bio-LNG and its hydrogen capable and proven variant H₂ HPDI. The HPDI system enables existing IC engine architecture to run on a variety of clean fuels (natural gas, biomethane, syngas, hydrogen), as increasingly popular alternatives to diesel engines.
TotalEnergies Marine Fuels’ chartered LNG bunker barge, the Gas Vitality, refueled MSC Cruises’ vessel via a ship-to-ship transfer of 2,500 m3 of LNG in the Port of Marseille Fos, Southern France. MSC World Europa is 333 meters long and the best performing large cruise ship operating in the world in terms of CO2eq emissions per passenger.
Gas Networks Ireland and Circle K have taken another step forward in reducing emissions from Ireland’s heavy transport industry, one of the most difficult industries to decarbonize. The companies are offering biomethane at Circle K’s forecourts in Ballysimon Road, Limerick; Cashel, Clonshaugh and Dublin Port.
These trucks have been tested on public roads for the first time. To make it extra-challenging, the tests have been conducted above the Arctic Circle in the north of Sweden – in an extremely cold climate. The vehicles will be available in the second half of this decade. Tests with haulers will start a few years before the commercial launch.
Amid increases in gasoline, natural gas continues to position itself as the cheapest alternative. So far in 2023, the purchase of CNG dedicated vehicles has increased by 12% compared to the same period of the previous year. There are currently several fleets of corporate vehicles that run on CNG in Cartagena, including Mercado Libre, Bimbo and Aguas de Cartagena.
The California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership collaborated with Cummins to host a media event showcasing the Cummins X15N 15-liter natural gas engine in a Class 8 truck chassis for the first time in North America. Cummins anticipates that starting in 2024, fleets will have the opportunity to order factory-built Class 8 trucks with the X15N engine.
Developed for waste customers that want an alternative-fuel solution or that generate their own fuel (renewable natural gas), the Mack Granite CNG model features a 320-horsepower Cummins L9N engine matched with an Allison 4500 fully automatic 6-speed transmission. It is available as an axle-back model.
Aimed at professionals from all over the world with the social and strategic objective of advancing in the decarbonization of transport, as well as in the networking of the sector, the event was a success and the final balance extremely positive, according to the organizers, with more than 1,750 participants.
CNH Industrial’s brand has been awarded a 2023 Green Good Design Award for its T7 Methane Power LNG prototype tractor. The unit furthers the company’s position in the quest for viable alternative fuels. It features an LNG system that provides four times the fuel storage of the T6 model, the world’s first commercialized CNG tractor.
