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Cummins unveils industry-first
fuel-agnostic internal combustion powertrain solutions, helping fleets
decarbonize today with low-carbon fuels
Feb 14, 2022
Global power leader Cummins Inc. (NYSE:
CMI) announced today that it is expanding its industry-leading
powertrain platforms, leveraging a range of lower carbon fuel types.
As the industry’s first unified, fuel-agnostic engines, these
platforms will use engine blocks and core components that share common
architectures and will be
optimized for different low-carbon fuel types.
“Getting to zero is not a light-switch
event. Carbon emissions that we put into the atmosphere today will
have a lasting impact. This means anything we can do to start reducing
the carbon footprint today is a win for the planet. We need to take
action now,” said Srikanth Padmanabhan, President, Cummins Engine
Business. “Having a variety of lower carbon options is particularly
important considering the variation in duty cycles and operating
environments across the many markets we serve. There is no single
solution or “magic bullet” that will work for all application types or
all end users.”
Parts Commonality
These new fuel-agnostic engine platforms
will feature a series of engine versions that are derived from a
common base engine, which means they have a high degree of parts
commonality. Below the head gasket of each engine will largely have
similar components and above the head gasket will have different
components for different fuel types. Each engine version will operate
using a different, single fuel.
This new design approach will be applied
across the company’s legendary B, L and X-Series engine portfolios,
which will be available for diesel, natural gas and hydrogen.
“This is a new way of designing and
developing lower emission internal combustion powertrains that meet
the unique needs of the transportation industry while leveraging the
benefits of a common product architecture and footprint where
possible,” said Jonathon White, Vice President of Engineering, Engine
Business. “This unique technology approach will allow end users to
more seamlessly pick the right powertrain for their application with
the lowest CO2 impact.”
Parts commonality will offer increased
benefits for both truck OEMs and end users, including similar engine
footprints, diagnoses and service intervals. This means it will be
easier for OEMs to integrate a variety of fuel types across the same
truck chassis and there will be minimal costs to train technicians and
re-tool service locations, resulting in a lower total cost of
ownership for the end user.
Reliable & Durable
These fuel-agnostic platforms are
designed and built-upon the learnings extracted from millions of
diesel and natural gas engines manufactured and currently in-use.
Today’s digital and connected technologies allow Cummins to extract
insights specific to different engine duty cycles, and leverage these
to design reliable fuel-agnostic platforms.
“Our customers can be confident in
Cummins’ unmatched testing and evaluation process ensuring
high-performance products,” said White. “No matter what type of work a
fleet does, we’ll have an engine powered by lower carbon fuels with
diesel-like performance to get the job done.”
Destination Zero
These new products are an important
element of Cummins’ strategy to go further, faster to reduce the
greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality impacts of its products and reach
net-zero emissions by 2050 in a way that serves all stakeholders in a
sustainable way for Cummins’ business. This commitment requires
changes to Cummins’ products and the energy sources that power them.
Two of the company’s environmental
sustainability goals for 2030 goals include reducing scope 3 absolute
lifetime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from newly sold products by
25% and partnering with customers to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions from
products in the field by 55 million metric tons.
“Cummins is innovating at every level of
the company to find new ways of working that use fewer of the world’s
resources and the Engine Business is at the center of this exciting
innovation,” said Padmanabhan. “We know that our planet cannot wait
for the perfect solution to happen. Instead, our approach must be a
combined effort of using zero emissions power where it’s available and
using cleaner power where it is not. The planet cannot afford for us
to hit pause in the meantime.”
About Cummins Inc.
Cummins Inc., a global power
leader, is a corporation of complementary business segments
that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad
portfolio of power solutions. The company’s products range
from diesel, natural gas, electric and hybrid powertrains
and powertrain-related components including filtration,
aftertreatment, turbochargers, fuel systems, controls
systems, air handling systems, automated transmissions,
electric power generation systems, batteries, electrified
power systems, hydrogen generation and fuel cell products.
Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its
founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 57,800
people committed to powering a more prosperous world through
three global corporate responsibility priorities critical to
healthy communities: education, environment and equality of
opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online, through a
network of company-owned and independent distributor
locations, and through thousands of dealer locations
worldwide and earned about $1.8 billion on sales of $19.8
billion in 2020. Learn more at
cummins.com.
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