India’s first Liquified Pure Fuel (LNG) fuelled vehicles manufactured by Blue Power Motors have begun industrial operations for JK Lakshmi Cement, considered one of India’s main cement firms.

The primary fleet of LNG vehicles was flagged off from JK Lakshmi Cement’s Sirohi plant in Rajasthan, headed for for the clinker grinding unit at Surat, Gujarat. JK Lakshmi Cement is the primary cement firm in India to deploy LNG vehicles for long-haul transportation of uncooked supplies.

Anirudh Bhuwalka, CEO, Blue Power Motors mentioned: ‘’Sustainability shouldn’t be a alternative anymore however a obligatory lifestyle. We’re delighted to share our imaginative and prescient of revolutionising India’s inexperienced trucking business with JK Lakshmi Cement. The infra business may be very intently linked to vehicles, and such adoptions institute belief and instill confidence that may ultimately pave the way in which in direction of a carbon-neutral atmosphere. Our vehicles have been designed and conceptualised with Indian circumstances and local weather necessities.”

L-R: Arun Shukla, President & Director JK Lakshmi Cement and Prakhar Saxena, CMO, Blue Power Motors with an LNG-fuelled BE5528 truck.  

Elaborating on the initiative, Arun Shukla, President & Director, JK Lakshmi Cement Restricted, mentioned, “Our nation is aiming to cut back the carbon depth of the nation’s financial system by lower than 45% by the top of the last decade, and obtain net-zero carbon emissions by 2070. JK Lakshmi Cement absolutely helps this imaginative and prescient. Now we have taken a number of steps to cut back each direct and oblique carbon emissions. Deploying LNG vehicles of Blue Power Motors is our first step in direction of sustainable transportation as LNG is a wonderful inexperienced different for fossil gas.”

 The market entry of Blue Power Motors’ LNG-fueled vehicles began with the introduction of the BE5528 tractor as the primary mannequin. In line with the corporate. “the vehicles have been designed to ship best-in-class TCO with unmatched reliability and next-generation telematics system for gross sales and comfy long-haul drives.”

The BE5528 makes use of an FPT Industrial multipoint stoichiometric combustion engine to make sure best-in-class gas consumption and decrease noise than diesel engines. Round end-September 2022, FPT Industrial, the world powertrain model of the Iveco Group, acquired a minority stake in Blue Power Motors.

With 280hp energy and 1000 Nm torque, it is likely one of the strongest pure gasoline vehicles on the Indian market. The BE5528 truck has the business’s first 990-litre gas tank which offers the vary of as much as 1,400km in a single fill. Given this lengthy vary, points pertaining to vary anxiousness are nicely taken care of and with the upcoming LNG dishing out community, ample protection throughout key routes within the nation will probably be obtainable with out want of frequent refilling.

The corporate, which has an put in capability to provide 10,000 vehicles each year, inaugurated its manufacturing plant at Chakan, Pune on September 2 this 12 months.