Puneet Singh Jhawar

Natural gas is a great alternative fuel for clean vehicles. Its benefits are often advertised from the perspective of commercial fleet owners who enjoy significant cost savings, or from a broader environmental perspective. But what about driver’s perspectives? Read along to learn about the benefits of operating natural gas engines for drivers. Natural gas engines run a cleaner and quieter opera

What is renewable natural gas? Renewable natural gas, or RNG, is sometimes known as biomethane or upgraded biogas. Anaerobic digestion, a process in which bacteria break down organic matter, produces biogas. Biogas can generate heat and electricity with only a minor clean up. Additional refining removes contaminants such as CO2 and nitrogen. At that point, biogas becomes renewable natural gas—n

There are many considerations for fleet managers who want to switch to natural gas engines. Some of the key factors include driver education, maintenance, and having a refueling strategy in place. With an effective transition plan, the benefits of natural gas don’t take long to materialize for customers, drivers, maintenance technicians, fleet managers and business owners. Driver education on n

There are many good reasons to switch to vehicles with natural gas engines, such as saving money on fuel and on vehicle, a better ability to forecast operating costs and avoiding cold-weather problems.   Another top reason why many fleet operators invest in compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles is that they can drastically lower emissions. The 2022 State of Sustainable Fleets Report found

There are growing choices in the commercial vehicle space that can help fleets reduce their overall transportation emissions. It can be a difficult space to navigate, whether a fleet is trying to keep up with tighter emission regulations or meet corporate ESG and sustainability goals. The complexities around incorporating lower carbon fuel types, training drivers, learning new service requirements

Compared to traditional diesel engines, natural gas engines have several advantages. A few of the benefits of natural gas engines are that they cause less air pollution, are quieter and run on fuel that is cheaper and less volatile than diesel. On the other hand, operating natural gas vehicles requires a deliberate fuel strategy because there are few compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations i

Natural gas engines can be a great option for commercial vehicles. They’re quieter than diesel engines, they reduce air pollution, and they can help fleets save a lot of money on operating costs, especially when it comes to fuel. So why don’t more fleets switch to natural gas engines?   Compressed Natural Gas, or CNG engines are a great option for a wide range of fleets and commercial vehi

Natural gas has been taking an increasingly central role in our energy supply over the past decades. In developed countries, the use of other fossil resources has stagnated or declined. In 2020, oil consumption in Organized for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is essentially what it was in 1995, and coal use has declined by almost half. In contrast, the consumption of natural

It can be difficult to grasp the role natural gas engines play when it comes to reducing transportation emissions and making the trucking industry more sustainable. Natural gas is a fossil fuel, just like diesel and gasoline, so there are some misconceptions about the environmental benefits it can provide, particularly when compared to emerging alternative powertrain options like hydrogen fuel cel

Compared to diesel and gasoline vehicles, natural gas engine vehicles pollute less, have a smaller carbon footprint, and use a fuel that doesn’t present any risk of soil or water contamination. Surely, these environmental benefits of natural gas engines must come at a cost premium, right? For many applications, the opposite is true. Switching to natural gas vehicles offers fleet operators long-

Commercial vehicle fleet managers face a dizzying array of options when it is time to replace or upgrade vehicles. One question that fleet managers often ask is whether there are any good fuel options available to their business besides diesel or gasoline. Alternative fuels, including natural gas, have grown in popularity in recent years due to their broad appeal. Considering a full or partial swi

Reducing air pollution generated by commercial vehicles is one of the many benefits of natural gas engines. Nested in a valley in the French Alps, the town of Chamonix is known for breathtaking vistas of Mont Blanc, for being the birthplace of modern mountaineering, and, unfortunately, for its terrible air quality. Emissions from passing vehicles are to blame. The town sits by a major road tunnel