“We commend EPA for finalizing a rule to tackle those emissions that will lead to vast climate and public health benefits,” said Jonathan Lewis, Director of Transportation Decarbonization….
I posted a note earlier on the new Cummins 15 litere natural gas engine designed to meet this standard. Cummins provides somewhere around 90% of heavy truck engines, so they have been working on something for a while. It will run on mythical hydrogen too.
OMG, I wonder if it was taken into account the reason why transportation emission it the largest emission contribution for the country. It displace the electrical sector because of natural gas. Now we have technology to do the same to the trucking fleet, all the UPS vehicles & Waste Management fleets run on natural gas. Hell even California did it: With the retirement of its last diesel buses, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) moved to 100% clean-fuel buses in 2011, the first major city transit system in the nation to do so. All but a handful of the buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG). It took 18 years after MTA purchased its first CNG-powered buses.
MTA’s fleet now consists of 2,221 CNG buses, one electric bus and six gasoline-electric hybrid buses. Villaraigosa said they have logged one billion clean air miles. With the gathering at MTA main transportation facility near downtown Los Angeles, the officials declared that the last diesels in the 2,228-bus fleet are now history. Now this is what is claimed, compared with the diesel buses that the MTA retired, the CNG fleet reduces cancer-causing particulate matter by more than 80%, the spokesperson said. In addition, because of the switch from diesel to CNG, the fleet avoids emitting nearly 300,00 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions daily. Seems to me we already have the tech and infrastructure in place to lower TOTAL EMISSION if we want too.
Their motto: "kneecapping industry, one regulation at a time"
I posted a note earlier on the new Cummins 15 litere natural gas engine designed to meet this standard. Cummins provides somewhere around 90% of heavy truck engines, so they have been working on something for a while. It will run on mythical hydrogen too.
Great information, Pablo. Thanks.
OMG, I wonder if it was taken into account the reason why transportation emission it the largest emission contribution for the country. It displace the electrical sector because of natural gas. Now we have technology to do the same to the trucking fleet, all the UPS vehicles & Waste Management fleets run on natural gas. Hell even California did it: With the retirement of its last diesel buses, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) moved to 100% clean-fuel buses in 2011, the first major city transit system in the nation to do so. All but a handful of the buses run on compressed natural gas (CNG). It took 18 years after MTA purchased its first CNG-powered buses.
MTA’s fleet now consists of 2,221 CNG buses, one electric bus and six gasoline-electric hybrid buses. Villaraigosa said they have logged one billion clean air miles. With the gathering at MTA main transportation facility near downtown Los Angeles, the officials declared that the last diesels in the 2,228-bus fleet are now history. Now this is what is claimed, compared with the diesel buses that the MTA retired, the CNG fleet reduces cancer-causing particulate matter by more than 80%, the spokesperson said. In addition, because of the switch from diesel to CNG, the fleet avoids emitting nearly 300,00 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions daily. Seems to me we already have the tech and infrastructure in place to lower TOTAL EMISSION if we want too.