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原文传递 $500,000 question: What will power Gemini's trucks?

题名：	$500,000 question: What will power Gemini's trucks?
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Jason McDaniel
摘要：	I didn't set out to discuss zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) with Brent Bergevin, executive vice president of transportation at Love's, when I interviewed him for this month's stories celebrating National Tank Truck Carriers' 2022 North American safety champs Gemini Motor Transport (page 16), Tandet Logistics (page 24), and Harmac Transportation (page 29). But as with any conversation around trucking these days, and particularly those involving tank truck industry executives, the subject inevitably arose, and Bergevin shared his views on alternative-fuel adoption, battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, and the Engine Manufacturers Association's (EMA's) early exit from the Clean Freight Coalition to form a new Clean Truck Partnership with the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Since those issues, and Bergevin's insights, didn't fit well into Gemini's tale of securing NTTC's first private-fleet championship-and second Heil trophy overall-in the same year beloved Love's founder Tom Love died, I decided to cover some of them here. Gemini currently is testing a 15-liter CNG engine from Cummins, Bergevin said, but he's not planning on adding any electric trucks until at least 2025. "We're going to wait for the technology to get a little more advanced," he said. "Some of these rulings coming out of California, with CARB, and the requirements for zero emissions, quite frankly are going to be very hard for this industry to get to as quickly as they want. With the cost of the equipment, and lack of any kind of refueling system out there for CNG, or renewable CNG or hydrogen, or high-speed chargers. They're just not there. It's going to cost billions of dollars to get those networks going and I don't know where we're going to get the electricity.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Bulk Transporter
卷：	85
期：	3
页码：	6-6