Leading national fleet operators announced the for- mation of the Natural Gas Vehicle Fleet Forum here yesterday, a new membership organization dedicated to advancing the use of clean, domestic, abundant and low-cost natural gas in the U.S. transportation sector. The NGV Fleet Forum will provide a members-only venue for operators to share technical expertise, col- laborate on product development and procurement, and support other members in the successful deployment of NGVs. ACT Expo organizer Gladstein, Neandross & Associates, which is providing operational support. “With continued high petroleum fuel prices, in- creased access to plentiful resources of domestic low- cost natural gas, and additional NGVs being made available by the national automobile and truck manu- facturers, the development of this NGV Fleet Forum comes at a time when the natural gas vehicle market is set to make a significant surge,” said GNA CEO Erik Neandross. “We are extremely excited to be a part of this ground-breaking and progressive group,” he said. Membership in the NGV Fleet Forum is comprised of companies that have existing natural gas vehicle operations as well as those that are considering natural gas for their fleet. Charter members in the NGV Fleet Forum include Sysco Corporation, Ryder System, Inc., UPS, PepsiCo./Frito Lay, Paper Transport, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trans- portation Authority, Sempra Energy Utilities, Border Valley Trading, HayDay Farms and Chesapeake Energy, The NGV Fleet Forum is open to members representing all manner of fleet operations. National NGV Fleet Forum Is Formed Beyond ‘Alternative’ The clean fuels espoused here are fast becoming market realities. —Page 4 GM Brings the Volt Fleet operators would like to be able to have more of the award-winning range-extended electric vehicle. —Page 10 More Clean Energy Jobs Half a dozen new CNG stations in Dallas for buses and refuse trucks, another for Tulsa Transit, and, just announced, four more major airport installations. —Page 11 Honda Gaseous Fuels The FCX Clarity runs on hydrogen and the natural gas Civic has a new name. —Page 12 Agility Fuel Systems That’s the new name as AFV-Fab and Enviromech have merged. —Page 13 Mansfield Gas Equipment Mansfield Oil vaults into CNG by buying Gas equipment Systems. —Page 15 More than ACT Expo The importance of GNA can hardly be exaggerated. —Page 16 Additional News Published Online at www.showtimesdaily.com ACT Expo 2011, the Alternative Clean Trans- portation Expo, is organized by Gladstein, Neandross & Associates ( Booth 108). ALTERNATIVE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION EXPO FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011 ACT Expo —Where It’s At Clean fuel friends at GNA’s Cinco de Mayo party here yesterday evening, celebrating a successful ACT Expo –an event at which has a Freightliner Cascadia truck with an over-the-road, market-enabling, ‘missing link’ natural gas engine has been seen for the first time anywhere. –More on the long-awaited 11.9-liter powerplant on page 4
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Leading national fleet operators announced the for-mation of the Natural Gas Vehicle Fleet Forum hereyesterday, a new membership organization dedicatedto advancing the use of clean, domestic, abundant andlow-cost natural gas in the U.S. transportation sector.
The NGV Fleet Forum will provide a members-onlyvenue for operators to share technical expertise, col-laborate on product development and procurement, andsupport other members in the successful deployment ofNGVs. ACT Expo organizer Gladstein, Neandross &Associates, which is providing operational support.
“With continued high petroleum fuel prices, in-creased access to plentiful resources of domestic low-cost natural gas, and additional NGVs being madeavailable by the national automobile and truck manu-facturers, the development of this NGV Fleet Forumcomes at a time when the natural gas vehicle market isset to make a significant surge,” said GNA CEO ErikNeandross. “We are extremely excited to be a part ofthis ground-breaking and progressive group,” he said.
Membership in the NGV Fleet Forum is comprised
of companies that have existing natural gas vehicle operations as well as those that are consideringnatural gas for their fleet.
Charter members in the NGV Fleet Forum include Sysco Corporation, Ryder System, Inc.,UPS, PepsiCo./Frito Lay, Paper Transport,Los Angeles County Metropolitan Trans-portation Authority, Sempra EnergyUtilities, Border Valley Trading,HayDay Farms and ChesapeakeEnergy,
The NGV Fleet Forumis open to membersrepresenting allmanner of fleetoperations.
National NGV Fleet Forum Is Formed
Beyond ‘Alternative’The clean fuels espoused here are fast becoming market realities. —Page 4
GM Brings the VoltFleet operators would like to be able to havemore of the award-winning range-extendedelectric vehicle. —Page 10
More Clean Energy JobsHalf a dozen new CNG stations in Dallasfor buses and refuse trucks, another forTulsa Transit, and, just announced, fourmore major airport installations. —Page 11
Honda Gaseous FuelsThe FCX Clarity runs on hydrogen and thenatural gas Civic has a new name.—Page 12
Agility Fuel SystemsThat’s the new name as AFV-Fab and Enviromech have merged. —Page 13
Mansfield Gas EquipmentMansfield Oil vaults into CNG by buyingGas equipment Systems. —Page 15
More than ACT ExpoThe importance of GNA can hardly be exaggerated. —Page 16
ALTERNATIVE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION EXPO FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011
ACT Expo —Where It’s At
Clean fuel friends at GNA’s Cinco de Mayo party here yesterday evening, celebrating a successful ACT Expo –an eventat which has a Freightliner Cascadia truck with an over-the-road, market-enabling, ‘missing link’ natural gas enginehas been seen for the first time anywhere. –More on the long-awaited 11.9-liter powerplant on page 4
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is proud to be a platinum sponsor ofthe Alternative Clean Transporta-tion Expo. ACT Expo will providethe latest information on new and emerging clean vehicle tech-nologies and alternative fuels with a
focus on near-zero andzero-emission tech-nologies in the trans-portation and goodsmovement industries.
Over the years, theSCAQMD through itsClean Fuels Programhas co-sponsoredprojects to develop,demonstrate and com-mercialize advancedlow- and zero-emissiontechnologies to re-
duce emissions in all market areas.These projects are conductedthrough public-private partnershipswith industry, technology develop-ers, academic and research insti-tutes and local, state and federalagencies. Project areas encompassemission control technologies, en-gine and systems technologies, al-ternative fuels and infrastructure,and electric and hybrid-electrictechnologies.
More recently, the SCAQMDhas increased its efforts to developand demonstrate alternative fuelssuch as natural gas and hydrogen,and electric and hybrid-electrictechnologies for the transportationand goods movement sectors. Thedeployment of these clean tech-nologies reduces smog-formingoxides of nitrogen, particulate mat-ter and greenhouse gases. Attain-ment of the clean air goals for thisregion is vital to its continuedgrowth and success.
In 2010 for example, theSCAQMD contributed nearly$8 million towards such projectswith total project costs of morethan $56 million. The SCAQMDalso administers the Carl Moyerand the Proposition 1B GoodsMovement Incentive Programs.In the past 12 years of the CarlMoyer program, the SCAQMD
has co-sponsored alternative fuelprojects of approximately $57 mil-lion. In 2009, the SCAQMD’sProposition 1B Program fundedLNG truck projects exceeding$55 million.
Southern California will requirebroad deployment of alternativefuel technologies, including near-zero and zero-emission technolo-gies, to attain federal air qualitystandards. SCAQMD is developingan approach to expand outreach tofleet operators and the general pub-lic to facilitate use of hybrid andpure electric vehicles. A potentialtechnology path will include plug-in hybrid electric and extended-range EVs; hybrid electrics; alter-native fuel (primarily natural gas)
and zero emission technologies.The SCAQMD has been work-
ing with industry and technologyleaders, government and academiato coordinate energy, climate andtransportation policies that will fos-ter energy security and cost cer-tainty, mobility, job creation andpublic support for infrastructure.The benefits will go beyond regionalair quality improvements. We canmake Southern California a centerfor clean technology and create aglobally competitive transporta-tion system that will grow theclean tech markets.
We’d like to hear your thoughts.Please stop by SCAQMD’s Booth614 to meet the staff or join us at oneof the Plenary Sessions.
William A. Burke, Ed.D.Governing Board Chairman
South Coast AQMD
Welcome Clean Air Innovators,
What will the future of passengertransport, freight transport and en-ergy demand and generation looklike? What viable transportationtechnology optionsare posed for com-mercialization andwhat partnershipscan and should befostered? How canstakeholders worktogether to developthe necessary re-sources to bringthese emerging tech-nologies to market?
These are only afew of the myriadquestions that businesses today mustconsider to determine which trans-portation technologies and strategiesthey should employ to achieve suc-cess. The South Coast Air QualityManagement District (SCAQMD)
WilliamBurke
ACT Expo organizer GNA is stag-
ing a Friday ride-and-drive with
nearly 20 alternative clean trans-
portation vehicles. The ride-and-
drive begins at 12:30 Friday, just
outside the doors by the right-
rear of the Expo Hall lunch area,
and will run about two hours.
ACT Expo Ride-and-Drive Today
BAF’s Brent Pope, Bill Calvert and Robert Sessa with dedicated-CNG Ford Transit Connect
ELECTRICFreightliner M2 106 Hybrid
Electric Tractor
ALT e, 2008 Ford F-150 Electric
Range Extended Pickup Truck
HYBRIDPeterbilt Model 330 Diesel
Electric Hybrid Truck
Ford Motors E-350 Balance Hybrid
Ford Motors Fusion Hybrid
HYDROGENHonda Hydrogen FCX Clarity Fuel
Cell Sedan
CLEAN DIESELBMW 335d Clean Diesel Sedan
BMW X5 xDrive x35d Clean
Diesel Sport
ACT Expo Answers Your Questions
NATURAL GASLandi Renzo, Buick CNG Lucerne
Ryder Freightliner M2 Tandem-
axle CNG Tractor
Ryder Freightliner M2 Tandem-
axle LNG Tractor
Honda CNG Civic Sedan
Ford Motors CNG Transit Connect
PROPANEBlue Star Gas Bi-Fuel Propane
Crown Victoria Police Interceptor
Heritage Propane Propane
Ford F-250 Extended Cab & Bed
Pickup Truck
Delta Liquid Energy Propane
Ford F-250 Pickup Truck
Roush Clean Tech Ford E-450
Propane Shuttle Bus
Roush Clean Tech Ford E-350
Propane Passenger Van
IMPCO Propane, GM Silverado
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“Let’s not call this the Alternative Clean Trans-portation Expo any more,” urged Hal Snyder,Sempra Energy Utilities VP, at the opening gen-eral session here yesterday.
As long as it’s called “Alternative” it showsthere’s a ways to go; instead it should be called“The Fuel of Today’s Expo,” incorporating allclean fuels, he said. With enough U.S. naturalgas resources discovered to last the next 100 years, and the country likely to become a net exporter in the future, clean energy is nolonger an alternative, he said.
Snyder’s views were echoed by a panel of cleanenergy leaders and executives who said these canbecome the predominant fuels if politicians graspthe nettles of policy, leadershipand incentives.
The economic case is almostthere. “It’s time to step up ourefforts for zero emissions intransportation,” said JudithMitchell, board member of California’s South Coast Air Quality Manage-ment District. “Some say it’s too expensive todo – but it’s too expensive [for the sake of futuregenerations] not to. It’s time to move this po-litical agenda forward.”
Several speakers said clean energy shouldn’tbe promoted on the basis of high oil prices.
America’s self-sufficiency in natural gas hasdecoupled that resource from petroleum prices,said Snyder, and that, added Joe Jobe, executivedirector of the National Biodiesel Board, meansthat the economics from now on will dependon government policy.
“We’re borrowing $1 billion a day for oil im-
ports… and that money is goingdirectly or indirectly to countriesthat are hostile to the U.S.We must rebel against thatmodel,” Jobe said.
Alex Keros, senior project engi-neer for electric and hydrogen in-frastructure at General Motors,urged that industry see past oilprice volatility and take a long termview, as is GM with a growingportfolio of clean energy vehiclesand technologies. “Our portfoliois a long-term play” with a horizonof at least the next 10 years, he said.
Clean Energy Fuels is also tak-ing a long-term view, said chief
marketing officer Jim Harger, with a strategicplan to build natural gas fueling stations alongAmerica’s interstates to serve the heavy truckfleets. Another company looking to the future isPeterbilt Motors, which is investing in moreefficient, cleaner and more electric technologies,said Bill Kahn, manager of advanced concepts.
Lack of a long-term policy commitment is oneof the greatest risks, said Roy Willis, presidentof the Propane Education and Research Coun-cil: without it, the advantages of technology couldmelt away.
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Freightliner Cascadia Features 11.9-Liter Engine
We’ve Moved Beyond ‘Alternative,’ Says Snyder
“The missing link” in the indus-try’s compressed natural gas lineup,a 400-horsepower heavy duty truckfor long-haul travel, may well befilled by Freightliner with a trac-tor powered by a new 11.9-literCummins Westport engine.
The first proof-of-concept Cascadia is being shown here byFreightliner – so new that ithasn’t yet been driven on the road.And beneath its hood is one of thebest-known secrets in the indus-try, a pre-production 11.9-literengine from Cummins, the exis-tence of which the company willbarely acknowledge.
“We’ve just completed installa-tion of the engine, and after theshow the Cascadia will join ourtest fleet,” Brian Daniels, power-train product manager forFreightliner parent DaimlerTrucks North America, told
F&F ShowTimes. He emphasizes that the Casca-
dia on show here is a proof-of-concept vehicle, and is not for sale.Freightliner will assess customercomments, put the truck throughtest, and refine a final productbefore bringing it to market.
“What we lack is more varietyin engines for large trucks,” saysDoug Horne, president of theNGVAmerica-affiliated Clean Vehicle Education Foundation.“That’s where we see the marketgrowth, and where the economicsmake sense,” he told F&F Show-Times yesterday.
Daniels is in no hurry to getCascadia on the road. “We wouldbe very challenged to push it outnationwide” as the infrastructureisn’t in place to support CNGtrucks on long distance routes, hesays. Short-haul based on logistics
centers, or spoke-and-hub opera-tions, could be sufficient to launcha truck capable of hauling 60,000to 80,000 pounds, but not until onecan drive New York to Californiawill open road CNG win massmarket acceptance, he said.
The one-off Cascadia has a 155-
diesel gallon fuel equivalent CNGfuel system by Agility Fuel Systems(Booth 229) comprised of 40-DGEtanks on each side (supplied byQuantum; 544) and 75 DGE be-hind the cab, using cylinders fromLincoln Composites (227). Agilityalso did the engine installation.
“Let’s not call this the Alternative Clean Transportation Expo any more.” – Hal Snyder, Sempra Energy Utilities VP
Natural gas vehicles are commercialitems in many fleets, like
SF Yellow Taxi in San Francisco.
Buyers of Freightliner Cascadia trucks may before too verylong have a new, more powerful natural gas engine option.
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Multi-national industrial gas supplier Linde isemphasizing liquefied natural gas for trucksthrough Linde North America at Booth 131, whileits Cryostar subsidiary is promoting the equip-ment necessary to handle LNG at Booth 133.
“With political turmoil in many oil-richcountries, oil prices soaring and diesel fuel andgasoline following the same upward spiral, thesearch for alternate sources of energy is inten-sifying,” Linde says.
“No other class of commerce is more inter-ested in moving away from oil-based fuels thanthe nation’s truck fleet owners, whose fuel costshave been going through the roof.”
Linde and Cryostar “have the technology tohelp fleet owners move from diesel and gaso-line to LNG,” said Bryan Luftglass, head ofbusiness development for Linde North Amer-ica’s energy solutions group. “Our extensive experience allows us to create a complete sup-ply chain solution – from the natural gas or bio-
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Propel Fuels (Booth 116) is well on its way to a net-work of 75 Low Carbon Infrastructure Initiative-backed fueling stations in California by year-end.It’s already got 23 in the state counting the onethat opened Wednesday in Harbor City, and willsoon open another will open in its headquarterstown of Redwood City.
Propel emphasizes E85-ethanol and (primar-
ily B5) biodiesel, because those are the two alter-native fuels for which there are millions of po-tential customers.
The firm is at the same time stepping up itsrelationship with fleets, emphasizing its ties to or-ganizations including the U.S. Post Office, theCalifornia Departments of Transportation andGeneral Services, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
“For us it is all about vehicle platforms,” saysPropel Fuels CEO Matt Horton. “We’re very fo-cused on the vehicle platforms where there is ahigh enough concentration of vehicles to makeit economically feasible.
“We’re still quite a ways away from that withpropane, natural gas and electric vehicles.”
Most of Propel’s stations, including six inWashington State, where Propel was estab-lished in 2006, are hosted by franchised name-brand gasoline vendors, giving Propelimmediate access to fueling sites with con-sumer traffic.
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Propel Fuels – for the Masses
gas source to the end-user, including designing and delivering turnkey LNGrefueling stations.
“We’re a one stop shop,” Luftglass said. Linde runs landfill gas-to-biomethane
– and then LNG – projects for WasteManagement in Altamont, east of San Francisco – fueling more than 300 garbage trucks – and has another,even larger facility, in the works in Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles.
Linde also supplied the LNG liquefierto Gasrec for a landfill gas/biomethane-based fuel supply facility west of London,England.
Philippe Heisch, Jonathan Harris, Lonnie Smith, Mark Sutton, and Bryan Luftglass at Linde Booth 131.
Propel Fuels CEO Matt Horton with Jake Millanand Emily Stoffel at Booth 116.
AbsoluteZero for H2
(and a DellStreak)
Cryostar hydrogen equipment distributor AbsoluteZero (Booth 552)is giving away the newestof the iPad-challengingtablets – a Dell Streak 7.Hector Villareal is AbsoluteZero president.
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Fleet managers can cut theirfuel costs in half at currentgasoline prices of $4.21 a gal-lon by using propane autogas,
Roush CleanTech VP ToddMouw said here yesterday.
“Just a few of our customershere in California include
Prime Time Shuttle, Marquez& Marquez, SuperShuttle andthe City of Riverside,” he said.“They’re already reportingtremendous savings on mainte-nance and fuel costs, and un-compromising range andperformance.”
Roush CleanTech is show-ing two propane autogas-powered vehicles at Booth 624 – aThyssenKrupp Elevator Ford E-250 cargo van and a Marquez& Marquez Ford E-450 cutawaybox truck. A Roush CleanTechClass A school bus, based on theFord E-450 chassis and equippedwith a Micro Bird G5 school busbody, is on display near the frontentrance. Another two Roush vehicles – a Ford F-350 pickuptruck and a Prime Time ShuttleFord E-350 passenger van –will be featured in today’s ride-and-drive.
“We’re going to let California know thereare alternatives to electric and CNG,” saysTom Decoster, business development managerfor hybrid drive systems with Parker Hannifin.
Parker’s alternative is the hydraulic hybrid,with regenerative braking energy stored as apressurized gas in a vessel known as an accu-mulator. Just as electricity from a battery drivesa motor, energy from the accumulator powers apump-motor to drive a vehicle’s wheels, therebyimproving efficiency and even allowing for asmaller engine.
The technology is being applied in Class 8 refuse trucks (where it’s tradenamed RunWise),in package delivery vehicles in trials with FedExand UPS, and in port vehicles via a program with Kalmar.
The Parker hybrid drive is on the U.S. EPA’sEmerging Technologies list (part of the National
Clean Diesel Campaign) and is eligible for buy-down fundingunder the California Air ResourcesBoard’s Hybrid Voucher IncentiveProgram (HVIP).
The technology is fuel-neutral,Decoster notes. Autocar, whichpromotes Parker hydraulic hybridsunder the E3 name, said last sum-mer at the WasteCon show inBoston (F&F ShowTimes, Aug. 16)that it would be offering a com-pressed natural gas option.
“What we need is power,” says Decoster. “It doesn’t really matter where it comes from.”
Parker Hannifin technical services develop-ment manager Doug Yglesias detailed the firm’shydraulic hybrid offerings at the Medium andHeavy Duty Vocational Applications session
yesterday. His presentation was titled The Answer to Reduction of Air and Noise Pollution While Decreasing Fuel Consumption.
Diversified Parker, which has among its manyproducts heavy duty motors for electric drive vehicles, is promoting high-pressure filters fornatural gas at Booth 336.
Parker for Hydraulic Hybrids
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Autocar E3 hybrid truck with Parker’s Runwise hydraulic drive in Florida
Choosing ACT Expo for its U.S.debut is Greenkraft, Inc., a newmanufacturer of compressed nat-ural gas kits for popular Ford,GM and Chrysler products.
“To compete with the OEMs is very difficult,” says salesman George Patrick,“especially for a new player.” But Greenkraft believes its systems will succeed tech-nologically and on price, and Patrick says the company has already signed upconversion centers across the country.
Santa Ana, Calif.-based Greenkraft already has won EPA and California Air Resources Board certification for its initial CNG kits, Patrick says, and willhave 25 products certified by mid-2012. They will cover the 4.8 and 6.0-liter GMvan series, the 6.0-liter GM truck, 2011 Ford E and F Series, and the 2011 FordTransit. Two of them are on show here at Booth 644.
Greenkraft is also showing a prototype Class 3 to 6 truck that is available inCNG or LPG for delivery within six months from an order being placed. Thetruck chassis is supplied by the Chinese Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co., Ltd.(known as JAC), and utilizes a powertrain made in the U.S.
The privately-owned Greenkraft was founded four years ago to develop, andultimately manufacture, clean energy kits for vehicles. But its history, through its associated companies (including California Environmental Engineering of Santa Ana), stretches back more than 30 years as a vehicles and engines emissionstesting lab for the auto industry.
Greenkraft also plans to offer LPG conversions, and is exploring hybrid electric powertrains.
“We’re currently testing hybrid-electric,” Patrick says. “It’s in the develop-ment stage.” The company will decide after further evaluation whether or not topursue the technology, he adds.
Greenkraft’sAmbitiousProgram
Greenkraft’s George Patrick
CNG Cylinders International is ready to start full production
of compressed natural gas fuel tanks, and is showing its
all-new large Type III, carbon fiber-on-aluminum cylinder on
Booth 331.
“It took a little longer than expected to get certification, but
now we’re ready to move ahead,” international marketing man-
ager Randolf Wollgiehn told F&F ShowTimes. He noted a great
deal of interest in the tanks, and the company is working to-
wards signing its first customers.
Malibu, Calif.-based CNG Cylinders claims a novel manu-
facturing process that eliminates a seam in the liner by using
6010 aluminum billet instead of aluminum tubestock.
The 300-liter units shown at ACT Expo hold the equivalent
of 25.5 gallons of gasoline or 22.6 gallons of diesel at
3,600 psi. The cylinders are 61inches long with a diameter of
22.5 inches. A 78-inch variant will have a 400-liter internal
volume. Larger diameter tanks are planned for the future.
CNG Cylinders also represents Argentina’s Inflex, a large-
scale manufacturer of economical Type I steel CNG cylinders.
CNG Cylinders to Produce
Randolf Wollgiehn and president Siggy Rivalta of
CNG Cylinders International
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The Choice Is Clear — And Clean.Your fleet can get the same horsepower and torque performance as gasoline for 30% less in fuel costs – and with 60% fewer emissions — thanks to ROUSH CleanTech Liquid Propane Injection fuel systems. Propane autogas fuel systems by ROUSH CleanTech let you operate on a price-stable, North American-sourced fuel with no engine modifications required. That means you’ll get all the benefits of propane autogas, with no compromises in your vehicle’s factory warranty protection.
General Motors is showing its Chevrolet Voltplug-in hybrid electric vehicle at Booth 414, asobservers speculate about increased productionof the vehicle.
Fleets would like to deploy the car but haveto wait.
“Right now it’s a question of availability,” says Joel Pointon of San Diego Gas & Electric.
“Demand is exceeding supply.” SDG&E hasone Volt on order, he says.
Southern California Edison is testing the ve-hicle but has yet to deploy any sizable numbers.
The University of California, Davis, said lastweek that it’s taken delivery of a Volt that’s forrental to faculty, staff, and students. The “cybergray metallic” sedan joins 18 Priuses in the
Davis campus fleet and atthe Institute of Trans-portation Studies.
“We are the first andonly government fleetwith a Volt in NorthernCalifornia,” says UC Davisfleets service directorRichard Battersby. Googlecurrently has 20 Volts inits fleet at Mountain View,he says.
Enterprise Rent-A-Caroffers the Volt extended-
range electric vehicle for daily and weekly rentalat its Mark Christopher Auto Center branchin Ontario, Calif. “We expect to receive someadditional Chevy Volts throughout this springand summer,” a spokeswoman told F&FST thisweek, for airport and other rentals and via theEnterprise WeCar car-share program. TheConnect by Hertz car-share fleet in New YorkCity has a Volt, too.
One report last week said that GM is con-sidering doubling Volt production, to120,000 units per year in 2012.
GM describes the Volt not as a hybrid but as
a range-extended electric vehicle, “poweredby electricity without being tethered to electri-cal outlets.” The front-wheel drive car has two111-kilowatt motors and lithium ion battery byLG Chem affording range of 25 to 50 miles.The battery can be recharged via a standard 110-volt outlet in 10 to 12 hours or via a 220-volt Level II charger in about four hours.
A 1.4-liter engine (premium gasoline required) adds about 300 miles of range. Thecar is manufactured in Hamtramck, Mich.
GM’s Alex Keros, senior project engineer forelectric and hydrogen infrastructure, is speak-ing at the Electric Drive Light and MediumDuty session this morning.
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Volt deliveries commenced this past winter and fleets would like to see more
GM Brings Chevy Volt
Fewer Fill-Upsfor Volt Drivers
Chevy Volt owners lasted an average of
30 days between fill-ups in March, GM says.
“Volt owners drove an average of 800
miles between fill-ups since the V olt
launched in December, and in March they
averaged 1,000 miles,” said marketing
director Cristi Landy.
The Chevy Volt took the 2011 World Green
Car award at the New York International Auto
Show last month, beating out the Nissan
Leaf and nearly a dozen other candidates,
GM reported.
GM’s Rick Scheidt withWorld Green Car award
Volt Takes Trophy
The hard-charging electric vehi-cle charger specialist Ecotality(Booth 233) said late last monththat it will be using ABB’s salesdistribution channels to offer itsBlink brand EV chargers toABB’s North American com-mercial and utility customers.ABB is investing $10 million inEcotality, and the two last yearreached a manufacturing agree-ment establishing ABB as thepreferred supplier of Ecotality’spower electronics and compo-nent parts in North America.
Ecotality sales grew by 60% forthe year ended December 31, to$13.7 million, and the company
said it would complete some14,000 charging installations in2011. Ecotality is helping OEMsincluding Nissan, with its Leafbattery electric car, make sure thatEV customers will have access toboth home chargers and a publiccharging infrastructure
Besides launching the Blinkline, Ecotality set commercial relationships with the retailersFred Meyer, Best Buy, CrackerBarrel, BP and Arco in 2010, pres-ident and CEO Jonathan Readsaid. “Additionally, Ecotality hasforged strategic relationship withleading organizations like ABB,Cisco, Sprint and Roush that
Ecotality Sales via ABB
Roush Cleantech is promoting propaneat Booth 624 and Roush Manufacturingis producing Blink brand electric vehiclechargers for Ecotality in Livonia, Mich.
further enhance our ability to pro-vide smart and integrated EVcharging solutions.”
Ecotality in January namedSprint Nextel for connected busi-ness services related to its Blinkbrand electric vehicle chargers,and subsequently announced in-tegration of the Blink Networkwith Cisco’s HEMS home energymanagement solution. Ecotalitysaid in February that Roush Man-ufacturing had commenced pro-duction of Level 2 Blink chargersin Livonia, Mich.
Just last week Ecotality addedMacy’s to its partner list, and saidthe retailer would install Level 2commerc i a l pedes t a l B l inkchargers at store locations in theSan Diego area.
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Clean Energy Fuels looks to be building six CNGfueling stations in Dallas – four for Dallas AreaRapid Transit and two for city refuse trucks. TheBoone Pickens-founded company, based justsouth of here in Seal Beach, is also building a newCNG station for Tulsa Transit.
The board of Dallas Area Rapid Transit justlast week confirmed Clean Energy as the fuel-ing supplier for as many as 452 new compressed
natural gas buses. DART is also expected to deploy more than 200 new smaller buses andparatransit vehicles.
Two of the DART facilities already have liq-uefied natural gas fueling by Clean Energy in sup-port of an existing fleet of 182 LNG buses. Inaddition to installing CNG fueling, Clean Energy is to make necessary building modifica-tions for methane vehicles at the two other garages,one of which is for the paratransit vehicles.
“IMW compressors will be used at all four facil-ities,” said Ken Nicholson, Clean Energy’ s Dallas-based GM for the central U.S. High-pressure gas lines help make the smaller units work-able at the three sites where large-scale through-put is needed, he told F&F ShowTimes. CleanEnergy acquired IMW (Booth 119) last year.
The station development project starts thismonth and Clean Energy expects to completeDART’s first new CNG fueling facility by April 2012. Clean Energy (Booth 210) also expectsto build two CNG fueling stations for garbagetrucks operated by the City of Dallas.
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Clean Energy said yesterday that it’s signed
long-term agreements with airports in Tampa,
New York City (JFK), New Orleans and Philadel-
phia to design, build, own and operate new
CNG stations to support ground transport
vehicles and off-airport parking shuttles. All
four will be available 24/7 for public access.
“With these new agreements, the number
of major airports that Clean Energy supports
with CNG fueling services will increase from
the current 23 to 27,” said Clean Energy chief
marketing officer Jim Harger. “Airports and al-
lied ground transport services have become
magnets for natural gas vehicle usage of all
types in response to the need to curtail
emissions, decrease fuel costs, and reduce
dependence on imported oil,” Harger said.
Four More Airports Too
Half a Dozen in Dallas for Clean Energ y
Clean Energy chief marketing officer Jim Harger,western region GM Chad Lindholm, Southeastbusiness development manager Dave Mizerowski,and sales and finance VP Peter Grace.
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American Honda is showing its FCX Clarityhydrogen fuel cell and dedicated-compressednatural gas Civic GX cars at Booth 312, and hasbrought copies of both for today’s ACT Exporide-and-drive.
The CNG sedan, known as the Civic GXsince its 1998 introduction, has been renamedthe Civic Natural Gas for 2012 as the auto -maker adopts an updated body style across theCivic line.
“We’re working towards a new and brighterday,” says assistant alt fuels manager EricRosenberg. “We’re looking for serious salesgrowth for the Civic Natural Gas.”
Compared to the 2011 Civic GX, city fueleconomy improves by 12.5%, and highway fueleconomy by 5.5%, Honda says. Range is expectedto increase by 8 to 10%, Rosenberg says.
The car remains America’s only NGV directfrom an OEM. It is manufactured in Greens-burg, Ind. It has a 1.8-liter aluminum block engine, with compression ratio raised to 12.7:1,compared with 10.6:1 in the 2012 gasolinemodel. “Exclusive fuel injectors, intake and exhaust valves, and valve seats accommo-date the unique properties of natural gas,”Honda says. “Stronger connecting rods and special pistons are used in consideration of the
higher compression ratio.” “MY12 production, con-
sidering that it’s a shortmodel year for the all-new vehicle is right at2,000 units,” Rosenbergsays. “MY13 will be thefirst full year of productionfor the new car and weexpect another significantincrease in production.”
The Civic Natural Gasfor 2012, Rosenberg adds,“heralds a new and overteffort to attract retail cus-tomers with enhanced product content. Honda’sstandard navigation system will be offered inabout 25% of the build and new aluminum magwheels, rear parcel shelf speakers and additionaldashboard features will also be introduced.
“We’re confident that some fleet clients willalso see great value in these features,” he says.
CNG fuel is stored at 3,600 psi in a singlestout Type III (carbon fiber on aluminum)CNG Cylinder by Structural CompositesIndustries (Booth 448) holding 7.8 GGE(gasoline-gallon equivalents).
“Designed with a sleek windshield rake, a
sweeping roofline and a new interpretationof the previous model’s ‘one-motion’ profile,the lines of the 2012 Civic Natural Gas sug-gest a sophisticated and athletic appearance,”Honda says.
Even more striking, and designed from thegrownd up for hydrogen, the FCX Clarity re-mains Honda’s flagship for a zero-emission fu-ture. The “star garnet metallic” (deep red)vehicle has a Honda-engineered fuel cell stackefficient enough to afford a single-fill range of240 miles with a compressed hydrogen pres-sure of just 5,000 psi – many competitors arerelying on 10,000, which makes establishmentof a fueling infrastructure more difficult.
Honda has placed FCX Clarity cars withcelebrities including the actresses Jamie LeeCurtis and Q’orianka Kilcher (who took herdriver’s license road test in an earlier FCXmodel), the hockey star Scott Niedermayer,Avatar producer Jon Landau, fitness guru JackieKeller, environmental strategist and authorTerry Tamminen (who also had a first-genera-tion Honda FCX), as well as with less-knownconsumers, at least one of whom also drove aCivic GX.
Honda placed three FCX Clarity cars in December for a total of 26 through 2010, andhas vowed to pick up the pace this year. Thefirm has long said that it’s awaiting a hydrogenfueling infrastructure, and it’s getting a boostnext week as Shell Hydrogen will open a long-awaited, Air Products refinery pipeline-fed hy-drogen fueling station on Toyota property on190th Street in Torrance.
“It’s a huge step forward,” says Honda alter-native fuels manager Steve Ellis. Not only is thenew location important, but the station will bethe first, he says, to allow fueling of multiple ve-hicles at the same time – as many as four.
Ellis is speaking at the Electric Drive Lightand Medium Duty session this afternoon.
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“The last two model years have not been ver y good for our fleet ef forts,” concedes American
Honda assistant alt fuels manager Eric Rosenberg, who has responsibility for the Civic GX and,
as of the 2012 model year, the Civic Natural Gas.
Fleets have historically accounted for 40% or even half of GX sales, but the figure dropped to
17% in 2010 and for 2011, “the final number was even softer at 13% of all GXs sold.”
“We’re looking forward to much healthier fleet sales as the economy makes that positive turn,”
Rosenberg told F&F ShowTimes.
“We have been hearing from many of our traditional fleet clients and even some new ones,
so I think the dynamic is changing again. We would really like to see fleet make a comeback
and this fiscal year my initiative to our field sales consultants is to ‘reintroduce’ themselves to
our long-time fleet clients and begin the process of introducing the product and themselves to
NEW fleet clients as well.”
Rosenberg extends thanks to such
“long-term partners” as SoCal Gas,
National Grid, Consolidated Edison,
Chesapeake Gas, the City of Dallas,
AT&T and the U.S. General Ser vices
Administration “for sticking with us
while honoring their own corporate
environmental initiatives.”
The City of San Francisco is a HondaCivic GX operator. The car remainsAmerica’s only NGV from an OEM
American Honda’s Steve Ellis, Annabel Cook, Eric Rosenberg, Elizabeth Munger and Elmer Hardy (driver’s seat) in the Civic GX.
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FAB Industries and Enviromech Industries have merged to formAgility Fuel Systems, which be-tween them have fielded some10,000 fuel system assemblies, pri-
marily for compressed natural gas. “With over a decade of design
experience in the use of compressedand liquid natural gas, hydrogenfuels, and other compressed indus-
trial gases, Agility Fuel Systems becomes the leading provider of on-vehicle alternative fuel systemsto heavy duty commercial vehi-cle manufacturers, dealers and end-users,” states the merger announcement. Services include engineering, design, prototyping,manufacturing, installation, and
continuous aftermarket service and support.
“Without question, Fab, AFV (a Southern California company acquired by Fab in 2005), and Enviromech are the leaders in theindustry,” said Ron Eickelman, ex-president of Fab and now presidentof Agility. “This merger provides aplatform to combine the best of thebest,” he said. Enviromech CEOJoe Pike is Agility VP.
Element Partners provided equity capital to complete the trans-action. Michael Gallagher, senioradvisor and former president andCOO of Westport Innovations, willjoin the Agility board. Booth 229.
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Agility Fuel Systems uses lightweight CNG
fuel cylinders from Quantum Technologies
(Booth 544) for high-capacity rail-mounted on-
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ventional diesel.
The new frame rail-mounted system em-
ploys a 25- by 80-inch, fourth-generation
Type IV Quantum tank (water volume
534 liters) yielding a CNG capacity of
80 diesel gallon equivalents.
It “mounts and looks very similar to its
diesel counterpart,” says Agility VP Scott
Lucero.
A 90-DGE version of the frame-mounted
CNG assembly using a 606-liter Quantum
tank is to be available in the second quarter.
Riding on with RyderAgility is supplying the fuel assemblies for the Freightliner M2s being
deployed in Southern California for lease and rental by Ryder System.
Type III fuel cylinders for the CNG trucks are being supplied by
Worthington-SCI (Booth 448). LNG tanks by Chart-NexGen (Booth 240).
Agility Fuel Systems president Ron Eickelman, GM Scott Lucero, and VP Joe Pike.
Agility Fuel Systems asEnviromech & Fab Merge
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A Better Fiber for CNG TanksDutch-based Greenes is using all-composite Type IV CNGcylinders made with a high-strength glass fiber from 3B forvehicle retrofits. 3B’s HiPer-tex glass fiber is said to be strongenough to manufacture Type IV tankswith no expensive carbon fiber (F&F,June 14, 2010). “A typical 32-liter[8.45-gallon] capacity CNG cylindermanufactured from HiPer-tex glassfiber is 57% lighter than an equivalentsteel cylinder,” says Greenes CEO Marc Dirkse. 3B makesHiPer-tex in Belgium and Norway. Fleets & Fuels, April 28
A Better Resin for CNG Tanks3M’s composites unit is seeking commercialization partnersfor a matrix resin it says can dramatically improve the per-formance of CNG fuel cylinders by effectively improvingthe strength characteristics of the cylinders’ reinforcingfibers. The key is a high fill content – greater than 40% –of silica-based nanoparticles. The nanoparticle fill, says 3M’sJanet Kirkman, “helps improve the load-sharing betweenthe fibers. The particles help move the load to the fibers,help them share the load.” Fleets & Fuels, March 28
And It Sounded So InterestingThe White House released word that enginemaker Cum-mins is working on hybrid drives with Zhengzhou YutongBus — among several dozen U.S.-China deals announcedduring January’s state visit. The two “have negotiated an
agreement to jointly developand commercialize hybridpower systems for the Chinesebus market,” the White House
said. The Cummins-Yutong item then disappeared from thelist. “Cummins and Yutong have not announced any agree-ments along these lines and neither company is ready to talkabout any discussions that may be going on,” a Cumminsspokesman told F&F. “Once the White House was madeaware of the error, the reference was removed but not before it was reported by some media outlets.” A YutongZK6116D school bus is shown here. Fleets & Fuels, Jan. 31
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California’s Wrightspeed is applyingknowhow developed for a battery racecar to medium duty trucks, where it seesan economic sweet spot for a high-power, series plug-in drivetrain usingtop-shelf lithium ion batteries.
“If you’re looking at vehicles that burn 3,000 or 4,000 gallons a year you’vegot some shot at paying for the batteries,” says founder and CEO Ian Wright.
He claims payback of just three years with his DDS (Digital DriveSystem),with fuel at $3 per gallon. Wrightspeed is fitting an Isuzu NPR truck with DDS,using a C30 Capstone turbine, diesel-fueled, as a generator. “The motors andcontrollers are our design,” Wright says. “The motor, controller, and two-speedgearbox is packaged as one unit. Power-to-weight is improved over currentlyavailable units by more than a factor of two.” Each motor, up to four, “can deliver 250-horsepower peak,” the company says.
The California Energy Commission hasawarded nearly $1.2 million. “The WrightspeedDDS uses electric-drive power for up to the first40 miles per day,” states a CEC summary.“Wrightspeed expects this project to validatethat the DDS results in a 100% increase in fueleconomy.” Fleets & Fuels, February 28
Fleets & Fuels357 Haight StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102
are taking increased notice as natural gas as a vehicle fuel.
Mansfield has more than 2,500 fuel-buyingcustomers. Fuel is delivered to more than 20,000customer locations in the U.S. and Canada,“providing a readily accessible customer basefor GESI’s products.”
“Our experience has been that customersneed a turnkey solution from a single source.,”said GESI founder and president Larry Ozier.“We can ease their transition to CNG.” GESIbuilds compressor skids and its own line of ac-cessory components at its headquarters in Ran-cho Cucamonga, Calif.
Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems, exhibiting atBooth 128, is a new name on the natural gas vehi-cles scene, as Southern California’s Gas Equip-ment Systems, Inc. was acquired in mid-Marchby Mansfield Oil, which moves some 2.5 billiongallons of various fuels per year including a going
business in biodiesel andethanol.
“With the addition ofcompressed natural gas toits current energy portfo-lio, Mansfield has solidi-fied its position as the onlytransportation fuels com-pany with the capability todeliver a complete slate offuels including gasoline,
diesel, biodiesel, ethanol, and CNG across theU.S. and Canada,” the two firms said.
Mansfield will both build CNG fueling stationsand, as it does with other fuels, handle fuel supplyto customers. That could mean pipeline, or itcould mean biomethane supply. The target mar-ket is medium-size fleets in the transit, refuse,concrete and package delivery fields. “Our sweetspot is the hub-and-spoke guys. The vehicle comesback to the depot at night,” Mansfield presidentand COO J. Alexander told F&F ShowTimes.
“Customers in the waste, cement, parcel deliv-ery, public transit, and school transportation sec-tors have been asking for CNG,” Mansfieldexecutive VP and chief information officer DougHaugh said in the acquisition announcement.Haugh, Mansfield notes, was a co-founder ofHouston-based FuelQuest and as such has devised“supply chain management and tax automation so-lutions” for such clients as Wal-Mart, Ryder, 7-Eleven, UPS, and Chevron – several of which
Fully factory-backed Ford trucks and vans, including cutaways and the new Transit Connect.
BAF Bi-Fuel (CNG/Gasoline)E-250/350 and F-250/350 Conversions Now Available
Come See Our New Dedicated CNGTransit Connect Cargo ConversionHere at ACT Expo 2011
Chuck Haas, Clark Cooper , Marc San Paolo, Tony Orta, Andrea Landi, Ed Harte and Dudley DeZonia with dedicated-CNG Southern California GasChevrolet Silverado at Booth 514.
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Besides organizing meetings likethis week’s ACT Expo, SantaMonica-based Gladstein, Nean-dross & Associates designs fuelingfacilities, helps clean transporta-tion companies make themselvesknown with special events, pressreleases and even websites, andhelps with the funding that makesit all possible: “Over the last 15 years, GNA has successfully secured over $210 million on behalfof its clients,” the Santa Monica-based organization says.
GNA helped win DoE fundingfor the 202-truck Ryder NGVrental initiative in San Bernardinocounty that kicked off Wednesday.GNA recently authored the NGVRoadmap for Pennsylvania Jobs,Energy Security and Clean Air too.
“The report provides a com -prehensive blueprint by whichAmerica’s Saudi Arabia of naturalgas – the Marcellus Shale – can beeffectively used to fuel a transitionto clean burning natural gas vehi-cle fuel in the transportation sector,especially in the fuel-hungry heavy-duty market,” GNA says.
The GNA report emphasizessuch return-to-base-fleet opera-tions as refuse collection and tran-sit that represent the primaryentry points for natural gas intransportation. “By using a con-centric circle approach, fuelinginfrastructure will eventually belinked in a corridor connectingthe major metropolitan areas,including Philadelphia, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, and
Pittsburgh,” GNA says. The corridor will include as
many as 17 new public-access nat-ural gas fueling stations to supportdeployment of at least 850 heavy-duty natural gas vehicles. Pennsyl-vania fleet operators will save some
$10 million in fuel costs per year.And, the corridor “can be further
linked to more regional natural gas fueling infrastructure developmentprojects in the greater Northeast-ern region, including a new naturalgas corridor development projectin eastern Canada,” GNA says.
GNA has taken Booth 108 for itself here.
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A ‘concentric circle approach’ to exploiting the MarcellusShale, ‘America’s Saudi Arabia of natural gas,’ for NGVs.
GNA for Ryder, Marcellus and More
Gladstein, Neandross & Associates is helping make the promise of natural gas from renewable sources – farm, garbage, sewage – into a reality for fueling vehicles.
GNA followed the success of a June 2009 biomethane conference in Sacramento with theWaste to Wheels: Building for Success, A Renewable Gas Workshop in Columbus, Ohiolate in 2010.
Working under contracts issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laborato-ries at Argonne and at Brookhaven, GNA devised a two-day program for Clean Fuels Ohioaimed at explaining the development process for biomethane for transportation projects.
This workshop provided training on feedstock sources, conversion processes, upgradingtechnologies, financial incentives, natural gas vehicle engine offerings and fueling – and onproject development strategies – i.e. getting the money.
“GNA has always taken pride in its ability to craft proposals,” says GNA CEO Erik Neandross. “Our years of experience have taught us what components make up a win-ning proposal and how to attract the right partners and funding.”
GNA senior VP Sean Turner provided an afternoon presentation on Natural Gas Vehi-cles: What’s Here and What’s Coming, affirming that “natural gas vehicles are available inall classes, across all applications, and are ready to begin using the clean, renewable naturalgas generated by the biomethane projects across the United States.”
Turner is also working with the developers of a major new landfill gas-based, LNG-for-refuse-trucks facility in Simi Valley, in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles.
GNA for Long Beach Transit
“The markets for natural gasand natural gas powered en-gines and vehicles are nowreaching the early stages of maturity,” GNA CEO Erik Neandross said in testimonyDecember 9 before theCanadian Senate Commit-tee on Energy, Environment
and Natural Resources.“Technology is reliable androbust and can meet the dayto day needs of heavy-dutyfleet operators.”
His testimony affirmed“the opportunity for Canadato expand its leadershiprole in the development of
the North American naturalgas economy,” said GNA.
“We are beyond the earlydays of first generation tech-nology and research and development projects,” Neandross told the Com-mittee. “Active governmentpolicy will be instrumental inaccelerating the transitionto natural gas,” he said.
Biomethane: ‘Waste to Wheels’
GNA reports a contract by Long Beach Transit to assist withdesign development for a state-of-the-art CNG fueling station, and maintenance garage modification, to supportLBT’s replacement of nearly 100 diesel buses with low-emission CNG units. GNA has partnered with Canada’sMarathon Technical Services, a fellow “North American NGVconsulting leader,” for the LBT work. Ryan Erickson is senior project manager for GNA. An LBT hybrid is shown.
Neandross Testifies in Canada
GNA technical staff helped Parker Hannifin secure a placefor its hydraulic hybrid technology on the U.S. EPA’s Emerg-ing Technologies list, making fleet owners wishing to field-test the technology eligible for a piece of an available $8 million.
GNA says it assumed management of the Parker ef-fort in mid-November: acting as a liaison between Parkerand EPA, assembling information and documentation,and developing a strategy to navigate the approvalprocess. “By the end of January, EPA had placed the RunWise Advanced Series Hybrid Drive from Parker onthe Emerging Technologies List.”
“The hydraulic hybrid technology is without a doubt ca-pable of reducing fuel use and emissions in substantialnumbers across a variety of applications,” said GNA sen-ior project manager Jarrod Kohout. Parker has “the onlydrivetrain on the emerging technologies list,” he said.
Parker Makes EPA List
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Trillium for The T in Fort WorthSalt Lake City-based Trillium USA (Booth 424) has won an interim contractfrom the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (known as The T) to maintainthe compressed natural gas facilities and five compressors that support the agency’sCNG fleet of some 200 buses, it was learned at ACT Expo.
The contract covers maintenance and preventive maintenance for up to sixmonths, after which The T will seek a more permanent solution.
BAF uses mostly steel Type I CNG fuel cylinders, often from
Italy’s Faber (Booth 220) for most of its Ford van conversions,
but is using lightweight Type IV (carbon fiber on a polymer liner)
cylinders from Lincoln Composites (Booth 227) for at least three
Ford Transit Connect taxi customers. The orders include 70 vehicles in Connecticut and a dozen
for Chicago’s Taxi Medallion Management/Yellow Cab – thefirst CNG taxis in Chicago. BAF is using a single large Lincolntank for the CNG Transit Connect taxis. It measures 18inches by 45 inches, holding 14.7 gasoline gallon equivalentsat 3,600 psi, says VP Bill Calvert.
BAF Technologies has added bi-fuelsystems to its line-up of compressednatural gas upfits for Ford vehicles, in-cluding bi-fuel Ford E-250/350 vansand F-250/350 pick-up trucks.
It’s “a huge step forward,” said BAF president John Bacon. “Notonly will our new BAF bi-fuel mod-els provide commercial and munici-pal fleets with increased flexibility indeploying their vehicles, they willmove us another step closer to get-ting CNG vehicles into the hands ofconsumers as the fueling infrastruc-ture continues to develop.”
The new BAF E-250/350 bi-fuelCNG vans have a standard fuel capac-ity of 10 gasoline gallon equivalents
(GGE). The F-250/350 bi-fuel CNGpickup trucks will be available in both10 GGE and 20 GGE packages.
BAF Technologies comes to ACTExpo 2011 as a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels (the acquisition was finalized in late 2009) but as a far largeroperation.
BAF has converted more than 2,000Ford vans to dedicated-CNG opera-tion for AT&T, and in 2010 it ac-counted for more than $42 million ofClean Energy’s nearly $212 million inrevenue.
Clean Energy will provide fueling atsome of the 22 locations where AT&Toperates the CNG vans, including Carson, Calif.
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Ford’s Gerry Koss (at left) and Chris Abarca of Azure Dynamics in a pure battery electricFord Transit Connect at Booth 318. Azure drivetrains are installed in made-in-Turkey glid-ers. Recent customers include Canada Post, which has 20.
Organizers of NGV2012 (from left): Jamg So Young, Shin YongCheol, Kim Young Soo and Nam Goung You Ran.
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Michigan’s New Eagle is promotingengine controls for advanced tech-nology vehicles at Booth 550, offeringOBD-compatible systems necessaryboth to secure certifications and to
help fleet managers run their vehiclesmost efficiently once deployed.
“As there are more and more cleanfuel vehicles, we can lower the costs,”says founder and business developmentdirector Rich Swortzel.
Customers include CleanFuel USA,he told F&F ShowTimes, as CleanFuelhas adapted the 8.0-liter GM engine forFreightliner-Thomas Built school buses.
New Eagle is also investigating alow-cost duel-fuel system for dieselengines, with gaseous fuel is introducedvia the air intake. The exploratoryproduct is intended first for exportmarkets, and for domestic customersas certifications are secured.
New Eagle recently moved into a newfacility in Anne Arbor. In addition togaseous fuel products, the firm providesboth controllers for electric drive vehicles and the software necessary to design such products under the Mototron and MotoHawk brandnames.
New Eagle’s expertise (and customerlist) extends to hydraulic hybrid vehi-cles, too. The firm supports both OEMand retrofit products.
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Organizers of NGV2012, the next world NGVs meeting, are promoting the gather-ing at Booth 351.
The 13th International Conference & Exhibition on Natural Gas Vehicles willbe held October 8-12, 2012, in Chuncheon City, Korea (near Seoul). Ms. Jang SoYoung is here with the NGV2012 Conference & Exhibition Task Force.
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