June 9, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 We deliver special coverage of the NGV2008 world natural gas vehicles meeting in Rio de Janeiro in today's issue of Fleets & Fuels. NGV leaders predicted strong world growth with or without resurgence of the North American market, and their optimism seemed wholly justified by the $11 jump in the price of oil, to just shy of $139 per barrel, on Friday.
We include a 'Speed News'-type summary of non-NGV2008 happenings like new biofuels processes and OEM-serious battery electric vehicle developments. We'll return to regular Fleets & Fuels news coverage with the next June issue.
Fleets & Fuels readers have their special issue with NGV2008 coverage, including contact information for key individuals. Shouldn't YOU subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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Rich Piellisch
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May 26, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 AF&V 2008 wraps in Las Vegas and the price of oil hits $135 per barrel. Experts including Boone Pickens issue a call to arms. A world OEM makes formal its plans for factory natural gas and hybrid vehicles. New aftermarket natural gas vehicles are available as conversions by companies in California and Texas.
A highly visible U.S. fleet is adding 300 NGVs and 200 hybrids, and a leading telecom firm is adding 100 alt fuel and advanced technology vehicles -- including 25 NGV conversions. A California electric drivetrain specialist locks in a $120 million deal with a major OEM for hybrid electric drivetrains for school buses.
All this and more is in the May 26 issue of Fleets & Fuels, replete with contact information for key players.
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Rich Piellisch
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May 12, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 Biomethane, biodiesel, and cellulosic ethanol. 260 more CNG buses for Los Angeles, 75 more hybrids for a major delivery fleet, a plug-in hybrid fleet program, more fuel cell buses (factory vehicles from Belgium), hydraulic and electric hybrid drives for trash trucks for three cities, a major OEM's new fuel cell bus design.
A subsidiary of that OEM prepares to take the wraps off its new LNG truck, claiming 400 orders.
It's almost too much. And, California is moving to toughen its diesel limits to require retrofits of existing vehicles, and to apply the rule to out-of-state vehicles.
All that and much more, including a detailed preview of this week's AF&V 2008 meeting in Las Vegas (the big one) is in today's issue of Fleets & Fuels, replete with contact information for key players.
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April 28, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 The world's industrial battery leader is stepping up its plug-in hybrids work, as a French automaker sees the huge French postal fleet as its re-entrŽ into EVs. A Scandinavian EV manufacturer and two American VC partners establish a U.S. joint venture and say they'll build a U.S. assembly facility. At least two British e-truck builders are planning U.S. plants too.
The world's largest public-access CNG station has been opened in Peru as the same firm takes over fueling of Las Vegas transit buses. A new low-cost CNG cylinder is close to certification. A gaseous fuel systems supplier reports record sales. A consortium of five companies is promoting CNG trucks on Long Island.
And yes, the federal government has proposed new mileage standards, the first in decades. But with a new context of climate consciousness, protests all around, and a new administration due in Washington, they'll likely never be made final.
It's all in the April 28 issue of Fleets & Fuels, which subscribers have. It's full of key contacts, phone numbers and e-mails for the movers and shakers doing alternative fuel and advanced vehicles business today.
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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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Rich Piellisch
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March 31, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 Lots of natural gas vehicles news this week as UPS has deployed the 167 CNG trucks it described late last year, and Clean Energy has reported earnings results. Another town on Long Island is seeking to buy CNG refuse trucks, 70 of them.
A new company has vowed to deliver CNG transit buses that cost no more than today's diesels. There is more CNG infrastructure for Southern California coming; and in Germany, a dedicated CNG Porsche.
Truckers wishing to use biodiesel can get it at for the cash price with the new "Biotrucker" credit card. A Delaware firm is seeking SEC permission to raise money to built 1,000 East Coast ethanol stations.
Hybrid news too, with a major truck manufacturer pledging full production of medium duty trucks with hybrid electric drives, and a New York firm taking new orders for plug-in hybrid trucks.
And of course, we fill you in on California's action last week on electric vehicles. Forget the hype -- in essence, fleet managers have nothing to worry about.
It's all in the March 31 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have theirs, full of contact people for all the items mentioned here. Shouldn't you subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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Rich Piellisch
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March 17, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 Record prices for oil are bolstering the case for advanced technology and, in the shorter term, alternative fuel vehicles. We detail efforts by Chesapeake Energy, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Daimler and GE to help reduce the environmental impact of transportation.
Those are just the BIG names. There's lots of information on the smaller companies that are helping make clean transportation possible too. From GE and GM to EnerDel and Capstone.
Electric vehicles (and the batteries that will drive them), biomethane, a new hybrid-biodiesel deal, and more.
It's all in the March 17 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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March 3, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 CNG weighs into the debate on the best clean fuel for trucks hauling thousands upon thousands of containers away from the ports.
The U.S. Air Force is finding that adding ethanol to biodiesel solves cold weather problems while eliminating an even bigger headache associated with the renewable fuel as well.
A unit of Chrysler celebrates ten years in the neighborhood electric vehicles business.
We deliver a special report on a brand new CNG station, the first for a singularly prosperous nation in the Far East.
It's all in the March 3 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs, replete with contact information for doing business NOW. Shouldn't you subscribe to Fleets & Fuels too?
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Rich Piellisch
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February 11, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 The nation's largest retailer is to test four over-the-road tractors fitted with LNG engines and fuel systems, the German post office is to deploy German hybrid electric delivery vans, a Texas batterymaker reports a $70 million lithium battery supply deal with a British electric vehicle firm, vehicle refueling appliances for CNG have been certified in Russia, the world's largest jetliner has flown using a synthetic GTL fuel, and Formula 1 race cars are to be hybrids.
We profile Southern California's ISO-certified US Hybrid Corporation.
All that and more is in the February 11 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs. Shouldn't you subscribe to Fleets & Fuels
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January 28, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 A big-name grocery chain has committed to biodiesel across its fleet, a Paccar unit has committed to factory production of LNG tractors, three Daimler truck brands are touting hybrid drives and CNG delivery trucks.
The U.S. arm of a 28,000-employee Chinese OEM vows to deliver CNG-fueled transit buses that cost no more to buy than conventional diesels. A U.S. firm is powering buses from the same supplier in Guangzhou. A U.S. drivetrain developer says its e-drive shipments in 2007 were tenfold those of 2006. A U.S. OEM teams with an innovative cellulosic ethanol outfit, and sets an engineering unit for electric vehicles. A lithium battery providers link with a vehicle developer.
Fleet-leasing firms are weighing into the clean vehicles arena in a big way. We deliver a rundown on a big name firm. Lots of key meetings news too. Biomethane.
It's all in the January 28 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs.
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January 14, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 The advent of LNG trucking in Europe, the XH Extreme plug-in hybrid, 'routine' delivery of landfill-derived LNG, Las Vegas garners a world award for alt fuel efforts, certified Ford truck conversions to CNG. E85/ethanol, biodiesel and high-efficiency gasoline engine developments. A new international partnership for jatropha-based biodiesel.
It's all in the January 14 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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January 1, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
- orders announced for 1,100 Orion hybrid electric buses,
- unannounced plans for 800 more hybrid buses, likely taking U.S. technology to England,
- hundreds of hybrid trucks for what may be the world's best known company,
- a falling out between partners and resultant lawsuit claimed to matter little to a prominent battery electric truck project,
- a history-making LNG station to support port clean-up efforts,
- increased traction for biomethane in Europe and maybe the U.S. too,
- natural gas vehicles in China, and
California will have to sue, again, if it wants to go ahead with its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction program (advocates were outmaneuvered in Washington, where a law raising mileage minimums was at last enacted).
All that, and much much more, is detailed in the gala, January 1, first-of-the-New-Year, "look-ahead" Fleets & Fuels newsletter issue Ð which Fleets & Fuels readers already have, with key contact information for doing clean fuels business, now and throughout 2008. Shouldn't YOU be subscribing to Fleets & Fuels?
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Rich Piellisch
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December 10, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
 Plug in. Switch on.
"We've sold hundreds and we expect to sell thousands next year," T3 Motion president Neil Brooker told F&F at EVS-23 last week. His company makes innovative, elegantly designed battery-powered three-wheelers for security applications. His remark (and his T3 vehicle) captures the spirit of this year's world electric vehicles meeting, the first in the U.S. since 2003.
Vehicles on show ranged from electric bicycles to a Class 7 truck. Batterymakers ran the gamut from A123 to nickel zinc.
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Happy Holidays!
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Rich Piellisch
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