{"id":8469,"date":"2020-11-22T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2020-11-22T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:59:19","slug":"rng-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2020\/11\/22\/rng-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative impact of RNG trucks a positive for environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By leveraging RNG trucks, it&#8217;s a matter of emission subtraction by addition.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-21148379\" class=\"page-contents__content-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This year the months of shutdown factories and closed businesses, along with fewer vehicles on the roads, have helped decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. to their lowest since 1983, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-11-19\/the-pandemic-the-clean-power-plan-and-the-paris-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to BloombergNEF research<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Overall, the GHG output is 9.2% lower than 2019. This was largely driven by the declined activity in the transportation sector, the data showed. Specifically, the sector dropped by nearly 15% year-over-year, or -265 MtCO2e (m<span class=\"hgkelc\">etric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329385614257557505&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fleetowner.com%2Frunning-green%2Farticle%2F21148379%2Fnegative-impact-of-rng-trucks-a-positive-for-environment&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329385614257557505\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">While that\u2019s great news, it\u2019s by no means sustainable. Neither the U.S. population, nor its economy, can thrive while locked down, and that\u2019s apparently what it took to make such a dent. Earlier in the week, though, a report by the <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Air Resources Board<\/a> (CARB) revealed a pathway to less dramatic, though absolutely sustainable, drops in GHG. For Q2, California\u2019s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program reported its natural gas fuel portfolio was -0.85 gCO2e\/MJ. That means vehicles running on natural gas had a net negative impact on the air quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s the first time in the history of the program that the average CNG CI [carbon intensity] value has dipped below zero,\u201d said Cliff Gladstein, <span class=\"acopre\">president of Gladstein, Neandross &amp; Associates (GNA), a clean transportation and energy consulting firm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"acopre\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Renewable natural gas was a leading factor in driving that CI score down. Sometimes referred to as biomethane, RNG can be harvested from decomposing organic material at dairies, pig farms and landfills and turned into a usable fuel source for commercial vehicles. As more farms and waste sites realize the untapped potential of these energy reserves, that negative impact could increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cOur research indicates that the California component of RNG supply is going to drag that that CI value even lower,\u201d Gladstein noted. \u201cRoughly three years from now, when proximately 160 new RNG production projects are online in California, the CI average of California-produced RNG will be -102.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A diesel truck produces a CI score around 100, so replacing one of those with an RNG truck will be like removing the GHG emissions of two diesel trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The impact on the environment is even better than that of electric vehicles (EVs), which have gotten far more attention as truck manufacturers such as Daimler Trucks North America and Volvo Trucks North America test Class 8 battery-electric trucks in the Golden State.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cMany forms of RNG, such as that produced from food and green waste, have a carbon-neutral and even a carbon-negative rating. Other forms of RNG, such as that produced from dairy waste, can have carbon intensity ratings that are 200 to 300% lower than even a battery-electric vehicle powered by renewable energy such as solar or wind,\u201d Gladstein said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Gladstein, like many other experts on clean trucking, believes truly addressing the emissions challenge will take several solutions, ranging from fuel cells to biodiesel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s no reason why we should be putting all of our eggs in one basket,\u201d Gladstein said. \u201cLet&#8217;s have as many baskets and as many eggs as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The catch is that they all have to be solutions that work for the fleets running them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cWhat&#8217;s most important is that they work for those who operate the technology, those who actually have to drive the trucks, and they\u2019ve got to work in terms of performance and be cost effective,\u201d Gladstein said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So far, the new wave of zero-emission and near-zero-emission trucks have found niches in which they excel, though fleets must concede in one area or another. For instance, electric trucks themselves don\u2019t generate emissions at the tailpipe, as they don\u2019t have any, but they sacrifice range.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Best of both worlds<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Austin-based <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetowner.com\/equipment\/article\/21134896\/hyliion-to-go-public-and-go-trucktotruck-with-tesla-and-nikola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hyliion<\/a>, which provides hybrid electric drivetrain solutions, will soon have a heavy-duty option that meets Gladstein\u2019s criteria by pairing an electric powertrain with an onboard RNG tank to extend the range up to 1,300 miles. The Class 8 hybrid, called the Hypertruck ERX, will be available on a limited basis in 2021 and at volume in 2022. Installation will occur at the installer and later at the OEM-level. The <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hyliion.com\/hybrid-diesel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hybrid Diesel<\/a> solution for Class 8 trucks is available now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-embed-type=\"image\" data-embed-id=\"5fb7e2bbf8c871bc218b4710\"><img class=\"lazyloaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/hypertruck_hyliion_breakdown.5fb7e2ba866a5.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"Breakdown of the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX powertrain\" data-src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/hypertruck_hyliion_breakdown.5fb7e2ba866a5.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" data-image-id=\"5fb7e2bbf8c871bc218b4710\" \/><span class=\"caption\">Breakdown of the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX powertrain<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Image: Hyliion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cWe see the benefit of our solution is coupling low cost natural gas with also really strong emission savings,\u201d Hyliion CEO Thomas Healy told\u00a0<i>FleetOwner<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He also noted the nation\u2019s ability to capture biomethane that otherwise would become a GHG is currently being underutilized. Realizing that potential could create thousands of clean energy jobs and provide a new source of revenue for the agricultural sector while providing that net-negative GHG benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The company projects the seven-year total cost of ownership will be under $280,000, about 35% better diesel trucks and 36% better than the unreleased Tesla Semi, based on the numbers the secretive Elon Musk-led company has divulged. The ERX could also be 56% more cost effective than the Nikola Two, a fuel-cell electric truck due out sometime after 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-embed-type=\"image\" data-embed-id=\"5fb7e38003d57f12058b4808\"><img class=\" lazyloaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/Penske_Hyliion_truck.5fb7e37b18321.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"Penske has been an early adopter of the Hyliion Hybrid Diesel solution.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/Penske_Hyliion_truck.5fb7e37b18321.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" data-image-id=\"5fb7e38003d57f12058b4808\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-embed-type=\"image\" data-embed-id=\"5fb7e38003d57f12058b4808\"><span class=\"caption\">Penske has been an early adopter of the Hyliion Hybrid Diesel solution.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo: Hyliion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cAll three solutions\u2014 battery-electric plugin, fuel cell, and natural gas electric\u2014are all going to come in and take a significant market share,\u201d Healy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One test fleet said it expects to save $15,000 per year in fuel costs annually for every Hybrid Diesel it deploys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cThe cost of natural gas today is significantly lower than even the future projected hydrogen and future projected electricity of grid costs,\u201d Healy said. He also recalled a CARB study that indicated \u201celectricity that&#8217;s generated and sold in California is actually more polluted than if you just use natural gas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Logistics company Agility has pre-ordered 1,000 Hypertrucks. Hyliion went public in October and received $560 million in additional funding to scale manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1312124278523871233&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fleetowner.com%2Frunning-green%2Farticle%2F21148379%2Fnegative-impact-of-rng-trucks-a-positive-for-environment&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1312124278523871233\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The cells will be produced by Toshiba and the electric motors and axles will come from Dana Inc. Assembly will also take place at a Mexican Dana plant.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1606063822724-793\" class=\"ad-container ad-container--max-width-300 ad-container--float-right\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-informa-gam-location=\"article\" data-informa-gam-position=\"inarticle4\" data-informa-gam-context=\"{&quot;contentId&quot;:21148379}\" data-informa-gam-key=\"article_300_4_rht_infinite\" data-gam-path=\"\/21687441225\/fleet.home\/article\/running_green\" data-gam-size=\"[[300,250],[300,600]]\" data-gam-size-mapping=\"[{&quot;viewport&quot;:[0,0],&quot;size&quot;:[[300,250]]},{&quot;viewport&quot;:[779,0],&quot;size&quot;:[[300,250],[300,600]]}]\" data-gam-targeting=\"{&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;300_4_rht&quot;,&quot;article_number&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;ptype&quot;:&quot;Article&quot;,&quot;nid&quot;:&quot;21148379&quot;,&quot;pterm&quot;:&quot;running_green&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;john_hitch&quot;}\" data-gam-collapse=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CIrjt9fPlu0CFbUw0wod42sDfA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21687441225\/fleet.home\/article\/running_green_15__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Healy said a big reason the Hypertruck could be successful is that its trucks, which also include a hybrid diesel product, are using many existing components familiar to the trucking industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re bringing you a new powertrain and we&#8217;re letting you use the same exact existing chassis that you already know and love,\u201d the 28-year-old CEO said. \u201cAnd we&#8217;re leveraging an already existing infrastructure. And I think that&#8217;s the strategy difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hyliion expects to produce 2,500 Hypertruck systems per year in a few years, with 10,000 units per year at full scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re not inventing anything over the next couple of months to make this product successful,\u201d said Hyliion CTO Patrick Sexton. \u201cWe&#8217;re leveraging off-the-shelf validated technologies, with really reputable Tier Ones that have a good knowledge of the Class 8 industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-embed-type=\"image\" data-embed-id=\"5fb7e30b03d57f29208b46fd\"><img class=\" lazyloaded aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/16x9\/Hyliion_s_Hypertruck_ERX_and_hybrid_solution_1_.5fb7e300af346.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"The Hyliion Hypertruck ERX (left) and the Hybrid Diesel (right).\" data-src=\"https:\/\/base.imgix.net\/files\/base\/ebm\/fleetowner\/image\/2020\/11\/16x9\/Hyliion_s_Hypertruck_ERX_and_hybrid_solution_1_.5fb7e300af346.png?auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;w=1440\" data-image-id=\"5fb7e30b03d57f29208b46fd\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-embed-type=\"image\" data-embed-id=\"5fb7e30b03d57f29208b46fd\"><span class=\"caption\">The Hyliion Hypertruck ERX (left) and the Hybrid Diesel (right).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RNG may not be the best solution in 10 years as battery and fuel-cell technology evolves, but for now it may at least help keep transportation\u2019s impact on air quality lower as the economy starts to recover from the pandemic and the wheels of industry begin to turn faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201cIt looks promising,\u201d said Gladstein of the Hypertruck. \u201cI think, like with everything else, the proof is going be in the pudding. The important things to get the cleanest technology out there right now, and not to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the very, very, very good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0 <span class=\"page-attribution__content-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetowner.com\/home\/contact\/21704576\/john-hitch\">John Hitch<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted-by\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetowner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.fleetowner.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5377\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/nueva-ley-auditoria-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/consultancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By leveraging RNG trucks, it&#8217;s a matter of emission subtraction by addition. This year the months of shutdown factories and closed businesses, along with fewer vehicles on the roads, have helped decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. to their lowest since 1983, according to BloombergNEF research. Overall, the GHG output is 9.2% lower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}