A wave of electric workhorses is coming

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When most folks think of the electrification of transportation, they naturally think about electric cars. And all those new models coming out — from Ford’s Mach-e to Volkswagen’s ID.4 — are super exciting.

But of equal importance is all those other vehicles big and small that aren’t carrying passengers on commutes or to the local Starbucks, but that are toiling behind the scenes. Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses.

Electrifying these commercial vehicles will be potentially even more important than passenger vehicles for reducing carbon emissions and for cleaning up local air pollution. There are also more incentives for fleet managers to adopt these battery-powered vehicles, because in a growing amount of cases, electric vehicles can save companies money over using diesel power.

Clariant, Pertamina collaborate on advanced biofuels assessment

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Clariant, a focused, sustainable, and innovative specialty chemical company, is working with Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas corporation, Pertamina, since 2018 to evaluate and test the feasibility of Clariant’s sunliquid technology to process available regional feedstocks in Indonesia into the advanced biofuel, cellulosic ethanol.

Indonesia has a vast potential of untapped biomass, from empty fruit bunches to palm leaves, that could be converted into cellulosic ethanol. Their present-day utilization is negligible and, until now, both feedstocks are frequently burnt, causing air pollution.

In Indonesia, ethanol demand is expected to increase dramatically, spurred primarily by a nationwide E10 ethanol blending mandate. Advanced fuel technology solutions, such as Clariant’s sunliquid process, are vital to match the feedstock potential with the increasing ethanol demand in the country.

USPS contractor adds propane autogas trucks through DOE grant

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Hi Pro Inc. is adding five Class 6 straight box propane autogas delivery trucks to its fleet. The company, a nationwide mail logistics contractor, has more than 40 years of service history with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

The vehicles are part of a $1 million research pilot project funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. The project, “Delivering Clean Air in Denver: Propane Trucks and Infrastructure in Mail Delivery Application,” will fund the purchase and deployment for Hi Pro Inc.’s fleet in Denver.

The Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition (DMCC) has partnered with the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to track data and performance measurements of the propane autogas trucks. DMCC will work with the Propane Education & Research Council to provide educational materials using the collected data.

Tucker Perkins to keynote virtual Green Bus Summit

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Tucker Perkins, president and CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), will provide this year’s keynote address at the Green Bus Summit Virtual Conference, presented by School Transportation News, April 20-22.

Perkins will take the virtual stage at 11 a.m. Eastern on April 20. Titled “Accelerating Decarbonization with Propane School Buses,” Perkins’ address will detail why more than 1,000 school districts across the country are investing in propane autogas to provide a clean, safe ride to school for their students without sacrificing the performance, affordability and reliability required of a school bus, according to PERC. Perkins will also compare propane autogas buses to other alternative energy solutions and detail how propane autogas school buses are the best option to accelerate the decarbonization of the school transportation market fastest.

DOE SuperTruck 3 to Focus on Truck Electrification

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The third installment of the Department of Energy’s SuperTruck research and development funding project will focus on electric and fuel-cell trucks, and will address a broader range of vehicles than the tractor-trailers involved in the first two projects.

Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced $100 million in funding for SuperTruck 3 during a webinar April 15. Joining that webinar was the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, which also is focusing on electric trucks in its Run on Less Electric demonstration project this year.

The initial SuperTruck project, launched in 2009 by the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, aimed to improve heavy-duty tractor-trailer freight efficiency by 50%.

2021 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo agenda released

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This week, Ethanol Producer Magazine announced the preliminary agenda for the 2021 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW) taking place July 13-15, 2021 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

This year’s agenda includes two new collocated events: Biodiesel & Renewable Diesel Summit and National Biomass Summit, along with two pre-conference events: Low Carbon Efficiency Summit and Ethanol 101.

Getting U.S. car dealerships on board the EV train

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Since the days of General Motors crushing EV1s and Tesla’s dealer battles, auto dealerships have represented a substantial barrier to EV car sales. Many have been a skeptical and uneducated interface to a car buyer’s first experience with electric transportation.

But now that electric cars are expected to start taking off, will auto dealers finally get on board?

Volkswagen and its U.S. CEO Scott Keogh are planning on it. Find the car you want at dealerships indianapolis.

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A few weeks ago, the American division of the global German automaker began delivering the first substantial volumes of its electric SUV ID.4 to showrooms across the U.S. with the goal to have at least one at every VW dealer in America. “We’re quite proud. We want this to be a 100 percent nationwide launch with over 650 dealers,” said VW’s Keogh in an interview.

To combat the historic dealer problem, VW wanted to “fully attack and address this challenge full stop,” Keogh said.

RNG Provided Over Half of On-Road Fuel Used in Natural Gas Vehicles

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NGVAmerica and the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) say 53% of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in 2020 was renewable natural gas (RNG).

Captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill or food waste, RNG can produce carbon-negative results when fueling on-road vehicles like short- and long-haul trucks, transit buses, and refuse and recycling collection vehicles. The California Air Resources Board’s Q3 2020 data confirms that the energy weighted carbon intensity (CI) value of California’s RNG vehicle fuel portfolio in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is carbon-negative and below zero, at -17.95 gCO2e/MJ.

DOE to spend $61.4M on biofuels research

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On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would be providing $61.4 million in funding for research, development, and deployment of technologies that produce low-cost, low carbon biofuels.

The funding is aimed at finding renewable resources to power heavy-duty vehicles like airplanes and ships that are difficult to electrify and to accelerate the country’s path to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, the DOE said.

“Biofuels are one of our most promising paths to zero-carbon aviation and shipping, so it’s time to double down on R&D and begin to deploy these technologies at scale,” said Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “This funding is critical for decarbonizing the transportation sector—the largest source of our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions—and delivering good-paying union jobs and clean air and water to American communities.”

‘Energy Unplugged’ podcast series debuts

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Stuart Weidie, president of Alliance AutoGas and CEO of parent company Blossman Gas, and Mark Denton, vice president of business development for Alliance AutoGas, launched “Energy Unplugged with Stuart Weidie,” a new podcast series that explores modern energy solutions.

Co-hosts Weidie and Denton plan to bring energy experts onto the show to speak on the current and future state of the energy industry and its technologies.

“I am excited to work with Stuart Weidie on our new podcast, where we will debunk some of the myths and misinformation about various energy sources and data,” Denton says. “Our objective is to have guests who have expertise in different areas of energy in order to get to the facts about energy options for U.S. and international consumers.”