April 14, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 Hybrid vehicle developers from start-ups to the industry's biggest companies are pulling out the stops to promote their new vehicles, tapping celebrities like Yoko Ono and bringing their test cars on cross-country tours.
A 'stealth-mode' company in California Adura reveals how its hybrid drive development efforts are aimed at the China market, and a Canadian manufacturer explains how its natural gas vehicle fueling appliances will help make a large-scale NGV market possible there. Plans for the new NGVA Europe trade group, and two new Asia NGV conferences, in India and Korea in 2009, are detailed.
Another Canadian, which builds buses, has racked up an impressive run of new orders and exercised options in recent months, totaling more than $600 million, including scores of CNG and two types of hybrid electric buses.
Fleets & Fuels readers now know all about one manufacturer's expanding line of hybrid passenger cars (our report sorts out new and existing and models, and the batteries they use), and tells how the firm's technology chief has blasted energy companies and government for failing to hold up their end on hydrogen.
Fleets are saving money with methane, and an EV start-up is terribly late with its product.
It's all in the April 14 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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