The City of Los Angeles continues to replace its remaining fleet of diesel and dual-fuel SWCV with natural gas SWCV. Full conversion to a clean fuel fleet will shortly be attained.
This project provided a partial funding support for the purchase of 14 new natural gas heavy-duty solid waste collection vehicles (SWCV) for deployment in the City of Los Angeles. Vehicle deployment throughout the City varies as determined by operational needs.
The total purchase cost of 14 new natural gas heavy-duty SWCV was $4,878,561.80. The MSRC funding support was $400,000 which amounted to 8.2% of the total project cost.
The purchase order was issued in September 2015. All 14 vehicles were delivered and deployed into service by December 2016.
Vehicles replaced by these new natural gas heavy-duty SWCV were equipped with 2001 to 2006 diesel engines. With retirement of the diesel vehicles, the estimated 7-year emission reductions from this project are 0.10 tons of PM and 21.99 tons of NOx.
To date, cumulative mileage for the 14 new trucks is 118,961 miles with actual emission reductions of 0.01 tons of PM and 3.34 tons of NOx.