Questions remain about electric vehicle infrastructure, he said. Having the infrastructure to support a CNG fleet "can be a challenge in some locales" but is "pretty prevalent," Morris said. Waste Management has cut fleet emissions 36% since 2010, recently named Chief Sustainability Officer Tara Hemmer said at a separate conference KeyBanc hosted on Tuesday. In addition, Micelli said 55% of the company's CNG trucks are using renewable natural gas now, and the company anticipates 70% of its CNG trucks will run on RNG in the next five years.
Morris added: “But I will tell you that our strategy since the acquisition of Advanced is not changing around CNG: We're going to continue to drive that number up." Waste Management spokesperson Janette Micelli confirmed following the event that 70% of the company's routed trucks are CNG trucks. In 2019 the company committed to 70% of its collection fleet being alternative fuel vehicles by 2025. That number dipped a little bit down, obviously, with the acquisition of Advanced they were on a similar path, just a little bit further behind us, so we're probably hovering at about 70%,” Morris said, echoing figures CEO Jim Fish shared on the company’s recent earnings call. “Even prior to our acquisition of Advanced Disposal, we were closing in on 75% of our kind of routed vehicles on the street every day running on CNG - the collection heavy-duty cycle trucks. Morris said Waste Management has likely spent at least $2.5 billion to date on its CNG fleet and some $300 million on infrastructure, installing CNG stations around the country. On the flip side, vehicle cost is a main barrier to adoption, followed by maintenance cost and total cost of ownership more broadly.
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Regarding CNG specifically, surveyed users indicated reduced emissions, fuel cost and driver safety as the top areas for which CNG had equal or better performance than diesel.
In general, while the environmental sustainability of these vehicle alternatives is key, economic sustainability is also critically important, said GNA CEO Erik Neandross. The report states that CNG, on average, provides a greenhouse gas emission reduction of 11% for refuse vehicles. The report suggests that fleet operators that have tried alternative vehicle and fuel types will continue to grow use of those technologies. Among the refuse entities and their transit, delivery, and regional- and long-haul counterparts that have been "early adopters" of sustainable technologies, over 80% of those surveyed indicated they intend to further grow their use of such technologies in the next five years.
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