Walmart Hits the Highway With First Cummins ISXN Pure-Gasoline Engine – Gas Smarts
The primary-of-its-kind truck will journey throughout the nation fueling up at Chevron CNG places.
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Cummins’ new X15N natural-gas engine is heading to California in a Walmart truck, the primary 15L renewable pure fuel engine on the street in North America, in response to the announcement from Cummins, Walmart, and Chevron.
It’s the primary North American — and the primary of 5 — 15L compressed pure fuel engine that shall be integrated into Walmart’s non-public fleet. The X15N engine is provided by Cummins and fueled by Chevron with compressed pure fuel linked to renewable pure fuel. The Walmart truck will make its inaugural journey from Indiana to California, making pit stops alongside the way in which to refuel at Chevron stations. On the finish of the street, it will likely be featured on the Superior Clear Transportation Expo in Anaheim, California, Could 1-4.
In introducing the X15N final yr, Cummins stated it used learnings from its X12N to deal with most of the drawbacks that has stored extra fleets from adopting natural-gas engines, akin to energy, upkeep, and residual values. It’s not only a larger model of the X12N, however a part of Cummins’ new fuel-agnostic engine platform line.
Walmart Zero-Emissions Objectives and RNG
Walmart stated including these 5 engines to its fleet marks one other step alongside the retail big’s street to attaining zero emissions throughout international operations by 2040.
Final yr, Walmart introduced a number of initiatives amongst its Class 8 transportation fleet to decrease carbon emissions, together with renewable pure fuel, hydrogen, and electrical.
Renewable pure fuel is produced when biomethane from decomposing natural matter, akin to cow manure or landfill waste, is captured, handled and processed into pure fuel. Methane that isn’t captured and processed is 25 occasions stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping warmth inside the environment, resulting in local weather change.
Final yr, 69% of all on-road gasoline utilized in pure fuel autos was RNG, surpassing the earlier yr’s record-breaking stage, in response to a report from Pure Gasoline Automobiles for America and the Coalition for Renewable Pure Gasoline. RNG use as a transportation gasoline grew 17% over 2021 volumes, up 218% from 2018 ranges, in response to the report.
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