Three Key Transportation Facts to Know this Earth Day
• April 22, 2021
The cleanest heavy-duty truck engine in the world is powered by natural gas
- Natural gas vehicles (NGVs) are zero emission equivalent with virtually no pollutants like NOx and PM
- NGVs are 90 percent cleaner than the EPA’s current standard
The carbon content of NGV motor fuel is continually decreasing
- Renewable natural gas (RNG) is now the majority NGV fuel
- NGV fuelers have made aggressive commitments to dispense 100 percent RNG in the near future
- The California Air Resources Board’s Q3 2020 Low Carbon Fuel Standard program data confirms that the energy weighted carbon intensity value of that state’s RNG vehicle fuel portfolio is carbon-negative and below zero at -17.95 gCO2e/MJ
- RNG offers the greatest carbon reduction of any motor fuel including fully renewable electric
Fleets can affordably achieve net carbon negative NOW
- NGVs are commercially available and scalable today
- Nationwide fueling Infrastructure is in place
- RNG is plentiful and domestically sourced
- NGVs work for urban America, rural America, and everywhere in between
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