The retail giant says the renewable form of diesel fuel it’s going to use is up to 95% less carbon intensive.
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Amazon, with a massive fleet of tens of thousands of delivery vehicles, will begin using a new, renewable form of diesel fuel for trucks in southern California. The retail giant says this “electrofuel” diesel results in significantly less carbon pollution than petroleum-based diesel. Starting in 2023, it will use this electrofuel diesel for trucks making so-called middle-mile deliveries, such as between vendors and its distribution centers, said Daniel Gross, director of Amazon’sClimate Pledge Fund. Though this type of fuel has the same exhaust emissions of conventional diesel when used in an engine, the carbon savings come from how it’s produced: blending clean hydrogen made from renewable energy with waste carbon dioxide that’s been captured from industrial sources.
Amazon and Infinium say the initial phase of the fuel supply deal is to get enough synthetic diesel fuel to power trucks for 5 million miles of operation per year, declining to specify how many gallons that would be. Given that the average semitruck gets about 5 miles per gallon of diesel, Infinium will likely produce several hundred thousand gallons for Amazon initially.
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