Leading power solutions technology provider, Cummins Group unveiled the commercial vehicle industry’s first fuel agnostic platform in India. At the Auto Expo 2023 in Greater Noida, the group also demonstrated its diversified range of hydrogen technologies power solutions.
Cummins’ innovative fuel agnostic architecture utilises a common base engine with cylinder heads and fuel systems specifically tailored to fuel, ranging from diesel, natural gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen. The platform offers OEMs common engine architecture across multiple fuel types resulting to a high degree of parts commonality.
This is in sync with Cummins’ ‘Destination Zero’ strategy focussed on decarbonisation. The company stated it is actively working to transition its customers to products that ultimately eliminate carbon emission and will have the right products to serve customers throughout the transition.
The group’s decarbonisation strategy involves working upon multiple technologies, leveraging the currently available options of low and zero carbon fuels. This will provide options to the end users and give them flexibility of adoption, based on infrastructure availability, needs of the transport operations and yet optimising economics of the transportation, a release issued by the group stated.
Ashwath Ram, Managing Director, Cummins Group in India said, “We share India’s vision of ‘Energy for Sustainable Growth’ and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2070. With a promising combination of our strong, global technological expertise and our deep understanding of the India market due to our 60 plus years legacy, we are well positioned to contribute toward India’s aim of becoming a cleaner and greener ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.”
The road transport sector has a major role to play in helping reduce emissions so India can meet its climate goals and “we are deeply committed to play our part in powering nation’s decarbonisation journey”, Ram said.
Cummins says its multi-path decarbonisation approach is based on the premise that adoption of new technologies must address diverse customer needs such as power requirement, payload, range, and total cost of ownership economics, along with infrastructure and resource availabilities. That is the reason, why it takes multiple approaches and technologies that can help in progressing toward the net zero goals.
Srikanth Padmanabhan, President – Engine Business, Cummins said to realise a net-zero future will require a range of technologies and no one understands that better than Cummins.
“Our Destination Zero strategy considers the significant diversity of applications in our industry. We power some of the world's most demanding and economically vital applications. There is not a single solution or path to zero that will work for all these applications considering the variation in duty cycles and operating environments and locations. We must advance solutions in a way that secures a sustainable future for the industries that keep the world running. That's why we have developed the broadest range of ultra-low and zero-emission technologies dedicated to the commercial vehicle industry,” he said.
Cummins is demonstrating the fuel-agnostic platform concept through their Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (B6.7H Engine), Natural Gas ICE (CNG/ LNG/ Bio-CNG), its latest generation advanced diesel engines (B6.7 Diesel/ Bio-Diesel), innovative zero-emission solutions like the Electrolyzer for Green H2 generation, hydrogen fuel cell, battery-electric technology (LFP and NMC) as well as its electric powertrain technology (14Xe ePowertrain).
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