IVECO has supplied three Daily Natural Power vans to Veolia, the Iveco Daily CNG-fuelled vans picked for their ultra-clean gas-powered engines for the London Borough of Camden’s graffiti clean-up squad.
Supplied by Dunstable-based IVECO dealer Northern Commercials, all Daily Natural Power light commercials feature purpose-built spark ignition engines, which deliver performance comparable to a diesel in terms of power, torque and response.
Iveco Daily CNG attractions
- Powered by a 3.0-litre natural gas engine, the Daily Natural Power 35S14 delivers 136hp and up to 350Nm of torque between 1,500 and 2,730rpm.
- Quieter with lower emissions and fuel costs than diesel equivalent
- The engine requires no AdBlue, particulate filter or exhaust gas recirculation and needs no after-treatment system maintenance.
- With fuel costs around 20 per cent lower than diesel, this helps to reduce total cost of ownership and boost fleet efficiency.
Running on compressed natural gas (CNG) means they produce 12 per cent fewer NOx emissions, 76 per cent less particulate matter and up to 95 per cent less CO2 emissions using bio-methane.
The vehicles carry specialist equipment for removing graffiti as part of a new contract with Camden and will be in operation whenever demanded.
They are approximately 50 per cent quieter than their diesel equivalents and will refuel from Veolia’s new CNG refuelling station at its Alperton depot which was built to service all the CNG vehicles in the Camden fleet.
Andrew Hope, fleet development manager at Veolia, the UK’s largest waste management company, said: “Emissions reduction was a critical factor in Veolia’s decision making for this vehicle so the availability of a cost-effective CNG engine made the Daily our first choice when specifying the panel van.
“The team at Northern Commercials were great to work with and Iveco built the vehicles within the required time frame.”
Iveco’s Daily Natural Power range offers Veolia maximum flexibility, with the new vehicles potentially able to access underground parking areas without the limitations affecting some other alternative fuels.
They also benefit from much of the same technology found within Iveco’s new Daily Blue Power LCV range, which has been named International Van of the Year 2018.
Iveco has more than two decades of experience in the commercial vehicle natural gas market, making it a true partner for sustainable transport – with more than 23,000 gas-powered vans, trucks and buses sold to date.
Quieter running is an attraction of the Daily CNG vans when street cleaning at night
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