Cummins Preps for Fuel-Agnostic Engine Production at Jamestown Plant

The Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant is preparing for their 50th anniversary next summer. Still, they more recently celebrated the production of 2.5 million engines at its heavy-duty engine plant in Jamestown, New York. During the celebration, Cummins also announced it will invest $452 million in the facility to produce the industry’s first fuel-agnostic internal combustion engine. 

“The new Cummins engine platform leverages a range of lower-carbon fuel types, including natural gas and hydrogen. ‘The world is changing in front of us, and we want to be part of that change,’ said Srikanth Padmanabhan, vice president and president of Cummins Engine Business, at the event. ‘Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. Decarbonization is our method of helping with that crisis.’…Cummins claims over half of all medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road in the U.S. today use Cummins engines. Padmanabhan said he hopes the 3 millionth engine to come from this plant will be a hydrogen engine, which is a zero-carbon fuel engine.”

These natural gas engines could be the future of heavy-duty transportation. There is yet to be a set date for production to start on the X15N natural gas engines, but the installation of the production lines at the Jamestown Engine Plant will begin soon. UPS, Ryder, and Knight-Swift Transportation have already committed to field testing the X15N engines with their fleets. 

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