Through its diesel engine re-motorisation service for autogas or biopropane propellants, BeGas integrates the principles of the circular economy into the heavy vehicle sector.
With this solution, BeGas supports trucks and urban buses in their final years of useful life with a clean fuel, allowing local administrations with fewer resources to accelerate the decarbonisation of their fleets. A business strategy that is in line with the 1st Circular Economy Action Plan.
Transport and mobility infrastructures that enable the movement of people and goods are key to the functioning of society. Even so, transport – in all its forms – continues to be responsible for approximately a quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, being the sector that emitted the most CO2 in 2019 and the one that offers the worst expectations of reduction. In fact, more than 70% of emissions from transport are due to motor vehicle traffic and a good part of them correspond to heavy transport.
With the aim of changing this situation and in line with the Circular Economy Strategy and the main strategic lines of the Circular Economy Action Plan, the manufacturer of ecological engines, BeGas, reaffirms its commitment to local corporations and private companies. And it does so through the re-motorisation service for heavy vehicles between three and ten years old, which allows the promotion of a new production and consumption model focused on reducing waste and promoting the reuse and use of transport fleets.
Diesel vehicle re-motorisation service
To accelerate the decarbonisation of transport in a joint manner and provide solutions to the heavy vehicle sector, BeGas, in addition to installing its engines in new vehicles, proposes an alternative that is unique in the European market: the replacement of diesel engines in trucks and urban buses with BeGas AVG 100% autogas or biopropane engines, with Euro VI-D approval. A commitment that promotes the use of fleets destined for public services with the installation of an engine that drastically reduces vehicle emissions and grants the Eco-DGT environmental badge.
With the installation of BeGas engines, the circle of the circular economy is closed, on the one hand, with the reuse of vehicles and avoiding the generation of more than 80,000 kg of waste by a small fleet of five buses. And on the other, with the use of biopropane, since it is a renewable fuel of completely organic origin.
These characteristics reaffirm that BeGas engines are the best option for local administrations to move towards neutral emissions, promoting the use of less polluting alternative energies that, at the same time, allow energy and economic efficiency in public spending.
With them, cities and municipalities with fewer resources will also be able to adapt to new environmental demands and accelerate the decarbonization of their fleets without the need to make a large economic investment. The expense in this operation is approximately five times lower than the cost of acquiring a new vehicle.
In this way, “at BeGas we aim to contribute to a fair, inclusive and efficient ecological transition,” says Pedro Silva, CEO and co-founder of the company.
New sustainable transport models must address the reduction of emissions throughout the vehicle’s value chain. This is what is shown by the so-called ‘well-to-wheel’ analysis, which covers everything from vehicle manufacturing, energy production and use, to management of its useful life and subsequent recycling.
