Renewable Natural Gas is Cost Effective and Benefits the Environment
Indiana harbors a secret related to the future of heavy-duty trucking and municipal fleets: It leads the country in the development of the alternative-fuel-vehicle industry. While electric vehicles tend to consume the vast amount of press coverage, natural gas and renewable natural gas, or RNG, provide by far the most effective environmental, financial and operational solution to meet the transportation needs of carriers and municipal fleets.
RNG-powered buses and trucks cost up to 50% less than fully electric options, making them a much cheaper option, even when accounting for fuel costs. Unlike electric, these vehicles are available today and are operating in some of the United States’ largest cities. When compared to electric, RNG buses and trucks more than double the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In some cases, RNG trucks and buses are actually carbon-negative. Electric buses still use electricity from a grid largely dependent on fossil fuels, especially so in Indiana.
By Kinetrex Energy