
Innovation And Sustainability
We are committed to environmentally responsible development. By pioneering electric units for cross-border transportation, we’re cutting carbon emissions and paving the path to a sustainable freight future across the Mexico-US border.

Clean energy
Bali’s partnership with Clean Energy fuels ensures that the company will always operate using our lowest carbon intensity fuel, at this moment certified at CI -330 on average.

Bali Express has always been at
the cusp of clean air technology.
Recognizing the harmful effects that Heavy Duty Trucks have on the communities they frequent, Bali set out to mitigate their carbon footprint from the start of California’s Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) by deploying class 8 trucks equipped with Diesel Particulate Filters in 2008.
Bali has remained a pioneer in clean transportation technology, piloting Renewable Natural Gas trucks in 2020 after researching the benefits this technology has to reducing Carbon, Green House Gases and Diesel ParticulateMatter from our transportation corridors in San Diego County.
Carbon Intensity
Bali has deployed 32 Heavy Duty RNG trucks to perform cross-border and intermodal runs throughout California. These trucks have a total combined consumption of 384,000 gallons (GGE) of RNG to travel the 2,112,000 yearly miles (75% of which are spent in San Diego County’s air basin). The yearly emissions from these trucks are phenomenal, it is the equivalent of:
3,534,192
Trees Planted
46,272
Cars off the road
72,832
Tons of waste removed
Bali Express has been a staple in the community. As a leader in the drayage space, Juan Baez advocates for the cross-border intermodal community as a member of the Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce among others.
San Diego’s APCD is in a perpetual fight to attain and exceed state and federal air standards. The current federal standard of PM2.5, is 9 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) which is a change from the previous standard of 12 µg/m3. Bali’s efforts with Zero and Low NoX technologies are helping San Diego stay in the green. Although San Diego’s PM 2.5 levels are generally low, they usually spike between the hours of 6pm – 9pm which are high traffic hours.
Bali’s Investments in ZEVs
Bali’s commitment to clean air has pushed them to pilot ZEVs and forecast the deployment of more than 11 trucks to their cross-border fleet in the upcoming years. Bali will continue to follow the emergence of BEV, FCEV and hybrids like CNG / Fuel Cell in the years to come as they ramp up their Zero emissions milestones up to 2045. Bali is currently working on an energy transition plan that will include changes to their infrastructure, software and staff training.
RNG: Shifting Carbon in reverse
Bali has a unique opportunity to help advance their sustainability goals soon. There are currently 23 Heavy Duty Class 8 Peterbilt tractors that the company would like to add to their efforts of shifting back their carbon footprint within the freight corridors of San Diego County.
When researching this decision, Bali considered the possible benefit from ZEV Trucks that can be attained and utilized for the same purpose. However, there’s not enough ZEVs available (with similar capabilities) to fulfill this need at this moment.

The chart below shows the emissions benefit (the higher the number the better the benefit) of each technology over its useful life. As we can clearly see, (Renewable) Natural Gas offers a much better GHG benefit while being competitive with NOx and PM 2.5.

New Vehicle Lifetime Emission Benefits

Bali Express had in mind applying for grant funding in the amount of 3,680,000, this is considering the funding criteria of up to $160,000 per unit. With a grant of this amount, or similar, Bali will be able to purchase these 23 units and deploy them using Renewable Energy in San Diego County. If this project was using ZEVs instead, a similar grant aid would be nearly $10,000,000 and the cost share for Bali would be significantly higher as well. Overall, the transition from Diesel to Renewable Energy needs to be based on cost effectiveness.
When looking at how the grant funding will convert to attainable air quality goals, we have great a better cost effectiveness output when it comes to NOx and GHG than with any other Renewable Energy Technology now. Bali would be scrapping 23 units that are still complaint and can still run in California for the foreseeable future, this helps avoid emissions much like the benefit of using reclaimed methane.