The Commonwealth of the Pamplona Region presented 13 buses powered by CNG with Renewable Guarantee of Origin that will form part of the fleet of the Regional Urban Transport. The new Scania vehicles are C340 CASTRO New City, seven of them 18-meter articulated and six 12-meter rigid.
The first hydrogen fuel cell bus is expected to arrive on the Central Coast later this year before starting a local trial of the technology. The project is a partnership with the Department of Planning and Environment, local bus manufacturer ARCC, Central Coast operator Red Bus, and Origin Energy.
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. will supply fuel linked to renewable natural gas for a Walmart Inc. demonstration of Cummins Inc.’s new 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. Walmart will field-test the trucks at its distribution center in Fontana, California. Chevron has partnerships with Brightmark and California Bioenergy to produce biomethane from dairy farms.c
The number of hydrogen vehicles in service globally will exceed one million in 2027, from just over 60,000 in 2022 – a substantial growth of over 1,500%. The Juniper Research’s study identified hydrogen-powered vehicles as an increasingly viable alternative to battery electric vehicles.
DHL Supply Chain will add 20 biomethane trucks into its Marks & Spencer (M&S) fleet, replacing 20 diesel vehicles. The new Volvo FH LNG tractor units will support both DHL’s GoGreen plan and M&S’ Plan A. The new vehicles follow DHL Supply Chain first delivery of 13 Volvo LNG trucks which arrived in January this year.
The Bizkaibus transport service began the first real circulation and refueling test with a zero-emission bus powered by hydrogen, which will make the usual route on the A3141 line that connects Trapagaran with Cruces. The vehicle is the Urbino 12 Hydrogen model provided by Solaris.
