Low carbon fuel standard

Of floor mops, M&M coatings … and battery packs 

What do coatings for M&M chocolate candies, O-Cedar floor mops and battery packs for electric trucks have in common?

All three come from German industrial conglomerate Freudenberg Group. The company operates many other seemingly incongruous businesses from filtration to home cleaning products.

A history of handoffs

Freudenberg’s battery business is an appropriate Truck Tech topic. But not as tasty than M&Ms, for which it makes the hard shell coatings through its Capol business unit. 

The...

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Refrigerated trailers California’s next emissions target; Ndustrial gets ready

HOUSTON — While the focus in California regulations might be on the Clean Fleets rule that will start to kick in at the end of the year, a smaller part of the state’s overall emissions regulations of trucking is spurring some new entrepreneurial activity.

What is driving an Ndustrial initiative launched in the past year is a set of new rules regarding trailer refrigeration units (TRUs), according to Jason Massey, the company’s founder and CEO,  who spoke about Ndustrial’s “value proposition” at...

Countdown starts for hydrogen-powered trucks?

WASHINGTON — The use of hydrogen fuel cells to power electric trucks was prominently featured in a debate in the U.S. Senate over how to formulate a national low-carbon fuel standard.

Much of the discussion, which kicked off the Environmental and Public Works Committee’s first hearing of the new Congress on Wednesday, centered on not whether hydrogen fuel cells and other clean fuels should be part of reducing green-house gas (GHG) emissions but how aggressive a national standard timeline should...

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Want renewable diesel? Better hope there’s enough raw material to make it

All the estimates on a greater use of biofuels, including renewable diesel, are strong. The charts are all pointing up. 

But there’s a big issue: Will there be adequate feedstocks so that this part of the energy transition — moving away from fossil fuels and toward a wide variety of less carbon-intensive fuels — can proceed?

That’s the key question energy consulting and advisory firm Turner Mason & Co. will tackle in an upcoming study. 

It’s also a question that has a significant impact on...

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Fuel Buyers Summit: Unlocking the mysteries of low carbon fuel standard

The Fuel Buyers Summit explores the low carbon fuel standard.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Fuel Buyers Summit on Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: LCFS: Unlocking the mystery

DETAILS: The low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) is a complicated carbon reduction initiative that impacts the fuels that suppliers produce and the prices and carbon intensity of those fuels. Megan Boutwell explains how the regulations work and the impacts on carriers, fuel distributors and refiners.

SPEAKER: Megan Boutwell is the VP of operations at Stillwater Associates.

BIO...

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8 questions with Brett Pope, Volvo Trucks electric vehicles director

The 12% federal excise tax (FET) on new heavy-duty trucks has lots of detractors who think the 103-year-old levy has long outlived its original purpose. That was to defray the costs of America fighting in World War I.

Brett Pope may or may not be for getting rid of the tax. He won’t say. But the director of electric vehicles at Volvo Trucks North America thinks waiving the tax on purchases of the VNR Electric regional hauler would help bring it closer to price parity with diesel models of the...

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For trucking, a ‘polyfuel future’ awaits

  • OEMs, logistics companies tout varied technology solutions on the way to a zero-emissions future
  • Cummins to reduce absolute lifetime greenhouse gas emissions from new products by 25%
  • In 2019, 25% of UPS natural gas deployment was renewable, and the company is on track to reach 50% penetration by next year

The metaphors flowed freely during a recent panel discussion as trucking experts argued for a multifaceted approach to low-carbon fuel adoption.

“We call the next couple of decades ‘the...

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