USA - Gas storage systems specialist, Hexagon Group* of Oslo, Norway today has around 100,000 heavy duty vehicles on the road using its tanks and storage equipment, primarily in transit bus applications in the United States and Europe, according to Eric Bippus, SVP of Hexagon Agility at Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo 2024 in Las Vegas last month.

Gas powered vehicles is a mature technology in the USA (and Europe), Bippus stated, but a noticeable change in the compress natural gas segment over the last five years is the amount of renewable natural gas (RNG) that is used in vehicles. “In fact, of the natural gas that is used in commercial vehicles in California, CARB estimates that 97% is renewable; it’s generated from landfill, it’s captured flare gas and captured methane from dairy farms, processed and put into the pipeline. Nationwide in the USA, the percentage of RNG is about 78%, Bippus stated. Furthermore, Bippus added, it is truly renewable; in other words, it’s not taking farmed crops like maise and producing methanol, its truly re-capturing the gas from waste.”