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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Right now diesel trucks can run natural gas fumigation straight into the intake.
LNG sounds expensive.
These things aren't going anywhere till the diesel trucks can fill up with CNG anywhere they need to.
You know what that means, more natural gas pipe lines.
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CNG and LNG will take off when large fleets decide it is cheaper to run than diesel. Emission regulations are helping to speed that transition as NG trucks burn clean enough to avoid urea injection and particulate filters. They are as simple as pre-emission diesels.
UPS recently announced they are adding an additional 6000 CNG vehicles between 2020 and 2022. The don't give the breakdown between medium duty and heavy duty. UPS runs a mixed fleet of 3800 CNG vehicles today with 31 private fueling stations.
They also run a fleet of 1300 LNG Class 8 tractors and operate 15 LNG fueling stations.
Today there are 1000 public CNG and 90 LNG fueling stations with multiple coast to coast routes. There are also plenty of NG pipelines to add more and a steady supply of cheap gas from fracking. It is way simpler to add to the natural gas infrastructure than to try to start over with hydrogen or HD electric charging stations (which are impractical anyway)