Progressively tougher clean air mandates and the increasing corporate focus on environmental sustainability could signal a larger role for natural gas — especially renewable natural gas — as a trucking fuel, experts said.
April 26, 2021natural gas
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel, Top 100
Renewable natural gas is attracting more attention as a trucking fuel amid tightening emissions standards. (Clean Energy)
Renewable Natural Gas Gains Momentum as Trucking Fuel
Renewable natural gas is attracting more attention as a trucking fuel amid tightening emissions standards. (Clean Energy)
Fuel
DeKalb County Transitions to Natural Gas for Economic Advantage
Dekalb County started with a simple idea to convert methane into usable natural gas, and it turned the idea into an economic winner that increased the efficiency and productivity of their operations.
November 6, 2020
Business, Equipment, Fuel
A Budweiser truck in Columbus, Ohio. (Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press)
Portion of Anheuser-Busch Fleet to Use Renewable Natural Gas
A Budweiser truck in Columbus, Ohio. (Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press)
Anheuser-Busch is transitioning more than 180 Class 8 trucks, representing 30% of its dedicated fleet, to renewable natural gas.
August 14, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel
A Hyliion heavy-duty truck on display at an industry show in 2018. Hyliion calls its longhaul, fully electric powertrain the Hypertruck Electric Range Extender (ERX). (Hyliion)
Hyliion Electrified Powertrain Underscores Larger Transition in Industry
A Hyliion heavy-duty truck on display at an industry show in 2018. Hyliion calls its longhaul, fully electric powertrain the Hypertruck Electric Range Extender (ERX). (Hyliion)
Hyliion Inc.’s Class 8 long-range electric powertrain underscores the transition period of multiple alternative powertrains is at hand. And the powertrain, whose batteries are charged by an undersized natural gas engine, could prove to be an important step toward carbon-free over-the-road transportation, experts said.
June 30, 2020
Business, Equipment, Fuel
A Clean Energy Fuels filling station in Hunts Point, N.Y. (Clean Energy Fuels)
Clean Energy Fuels Offers Cost Calculator to Fleets
A Clean Energy Fuels filling station in Hunts Point, N.Y. (Clean Energy Fuels)
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it launched an online calculator to estimate the cost of transitioning an individual vehicle or an entire fleet to natural gas from diesel fuel.
April 24, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel
Trillium Expands CNG Fueling Network
Trillium, a provider of alternative fuels systems and renewable fuels, is adding two public compressed natural gas fueling stations to its California network that will be accessible by heavy-duty vehicles operating in the state’s central valley.
January 3, 2020
Business, Fuel
The Cheniere Energy Inc. liquefied natural gas export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News)
Natural Gas Glut Has US Exporters Facing Worst-Case Scenario
The Cheniere Energy Inc. liquefied natural gas export terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News)
A global glut of natural gas has gotten so massive that U.S. exporters could soon face their worst-case scenario: Halting shipments to get supply and demand back in balance.
November 25, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by Peter Foley/Bloomberg News
Williams CEO Says Its Gas Pipe Can Help Cuomo’s NY Green Goals
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by Peter Foley/Bloomberg News
A natural gas pipeline that has been held up by New York could help Gov. Andrew Cuomo meet his ambitious clean energy goals if he approves it, according to the developer behind the $1 billion project.
October 22, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel
Petrochemical plant being built on the banks of the Ohio River in Monaca, Pa., for the Royal Dutch Shell company. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
Trump to Promote Turning Natural Gas Into Plastics in Pennsylvania
Petrochemical plant being built on the banks of the Ohio River in Monaca, Pa., for the Royal Dutch Shell company. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Donald Trump is showcasing growing efforts to capitalize on western Pennsylvania’s natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
August 13, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel
A TruStar fueling station. (TruStar Energy Corp.)
TruStar Energy Reaches Construction Milestone
A TruStar fueling station. (TruStar Energy Corp.)
TruStar Energy announced it completed construction of its 250th compressed natural gas fueling station, a UPS Inc. facility in Plainfield, Ind.
April 22, 2019