September 29, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Momentum builds as lead Japanese automaker may re-enter the natural gas vehicles market in the U.S., and Detroit's now-private #3 pledges to bring at least one of three new electric vehicles unveiled last week to market in 2010.
The NGV Technology Forum is reborn. A company in Utah is planning national distribution of CNG conversion kits from Italy. A leading garbage firm evaluates hydraulic hybrids on refuse routes in Texas. Digger derricks are added to plug-in hybrid electric utility bucket truck line.
All this and much more is in the September 29 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs, replete with contact information for key players. Shouldn't YOU subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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September 29, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Momentum builds as lead Japanese automaker may re-enter the natural gas vehicles market in the U.S., and Detroit's now-private #3 pledges to bring at least one of three new electric vehicles unveiled last week to market in 2010.
The NGV Technology Forum is reborn. A company in Utah is planning national distribution of CNG conversion kits from Italy. A leading garbage firm evaluates hydraulic hybrids on refuse routes in Texas. Digger derricks are added to plug-in hybrid electric utility bucket truck line.
All this and much more is in the September 29 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs, replete with contact information for key players. Shouldn't YOU subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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September 15, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
The big news this week is tomorrow's expected public debut of GM's Volt, ushering in a new age of electric transportation. Natural gas is poised for a comeback too. We give lots of details, on recent biofuels developments as well. Our company profile this week covers a new global hybrid group at a major automotive engineering outfit, pulling together the company's worldwide expertise in energy-saving drivetrains.
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September 1, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
We were excited to learn that a leading natural gas fuel supplier had launched a $30 million foray into biomethane, then got word that two of the nation's largest truckers are signing on the Los Angeles port clean-up plan, and will likely deploy large numbers of LNG trucks.
Lat week we learned that a once-obscure busbuilder from New Zealand, has sold as many as 90 turbine-engined series hybrids to New York. Chicago confirms 150 articulated hybrids.
A new CNG-and-HCNG engine by a Korean company will be built in Georgia, and a West Coast agency is boosting its pending buy of next generation hydrogen fuel cell buses to 12. The first plug-in hybrid electric work truck has been via lease. Commercial lithium ion battery production is gearing up in Indiana.
We detail the efforts of Power Circle, which will use EVs to demonstrate fossil fuel-free living in Sweden.
All this and much more is in the September 1 issue of Fleets & Fuels, which is attached.
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August 18, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Leading natural gas fuel provider (think Boone Pickens) helps bankroll a new CNG taxi as some 40 utilities join EPRI's Class 5 plug-in hybrid trouble truck program. F-150 propane kits will be available for installation by Ford dealers. At least one order is written for a CNG-fueled hydraulic hybrid garbage truck, as the U.S. Army moves (ponderously) to quantify the benefits of battery hybrids.
More LNG trucks to serve Southern California ports. A major waste company will test biomethane in an OEM truck in London. Eight goods fleets will test hybrid delivery trucks in London too.
We profile Arizona-based Ecotality, which is transitioning from an engineering and test services outfit into a commercial provider of electric vehicle hardware.
It's all in the August 18 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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August 4, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Word that the lead U.S. automaker is considering a natural gas-fueled plug-in hybrid late last week made almost every other alt fuel development pale by comparison... but there were plenty.
An aftermarket converter of natural gas vehicles extended its reach by partnering with a work and service truck upfitter with locations in at least four eastern states. There are were new electric vehicles and EV partnerships too, and new investments by backers including Google. Some plug-in advocates worry that too-much-too-soon could hurt the nascent technology, while others say that without grassroots conversions, the OEMs would not have moved.
There's renewed and new business in natural gas fueling, and a major British operator is shifting to biomethane. A company that used to be part of Texas Instruments is stepping up its NGV components presence.
Back on the hybrid side, a media giant is adding hybrid trucks, and Las Vegas is to get the first of a new breed of 62-foot buses next month.
It's all in the August 4 issue of Fleets & Fuels, which is attached. Full of customer and component supplier contact information.
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August 4, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Word that the lead U.S. automaker is considering a natural gas-fueled plug-in hybrid late last week made almost every other alt fuel development pale by comparison... but there were plenty.
An aftermarket converter of natural gas vehicles extended its reach by partnering with a work and service truck upfitter with locations in at least four eastern states. There are were new electric vehicles and EV partnerships too, and new investments by backers including Google. Some plug-in advocates worry that too-much-too-soon could hurt the nascent technology, while others say that without grassroots conversions, the OEMs would not have moved.
There's renewed and new business in natural gas fueling, and a major British operator is shifting to biomethane. A company that used to be part of Texas Instruments is stepping up its NGV components presence.
Back on the hybrid side, a media giant is adding hybrid trucks, and Las Vegas is to get the first of a new breed of 62-foot buses next month.
It's all in the August 4 issue of Fleets & Fuels, which is attached. Full of customer and component supplier contact information.
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July 21, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Hybrid buses are breaking out beyond the United States, as the UK capital executes the ambitious plan we reported in December-January. We name the agencies getting whose buses and drives.
Natural gas vehicles are breaking out, perhaps, in the United States, as lawmakers promote bills to encourage and even mandate NGVs, and Boone Pickens floats a plan for wind power to free up natural gas for road use.
One of Detroit's finest is expected to launch a plug-in plan with utilities in San Jose this week, and we provide further details on biomethane developments in Europe.
All this, and much more, is in the July 21 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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July 7, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
California gears up to commence its billion and possibly multi-billion investment in clean transportation. Electric vehicle suppliers notch new orders and strategize. Growing pains in the battery industry and a dispute over natural gas bus fueling. Biomethane gains traction: we name the U.S. point man for a $32 billion euro environmental services company that's launched its first biomethane facility in France and may do likewise at landfills in the U.S.
Better NOx controls for diesels and a supercharger for engines and fuel cells. Examples of hydrogen in aviation.
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June 23, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Natural gas supplier and automaker team on hydrogen for Project Driveway in Los Angeles. A major landfill biomethane initiative, with fuel aimed at vehicles, is kicked off in Britain.
More big-name fleets (think the phone company) are using alternative fuels and hybrids. Three package giants will test a new type of series hydraulic drive.
Chemical and biotech firms are vaulting into cellulosic ethanol. A producer banking on pulp-and-paper knowhow is building biorefineries in the Pacific Northwest.
One leading Japanese automaker trumpets the start of fuel cell vehicle production as the other promises a plug-in hybrid by 2010, and there'll be a new option for fleets seeking CNG Chevy sedans this summer.
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June 23, 2008 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Natural gas supplier and automaker team on hydrogen for Project Driveway in Los Angeles. A major landfill biomethane initiative, with fuel aimed at vehicles, is kicked off in Britain.
More big-name fleets (think the phone company) are using alternative fuels and hybrids. Three package giants will test a new type of series hydraulic drive.
Chemical and biotech firms are vaulting into cellulosic ethanol. A producer banking on pulp-and-paper knowhow is building biorefineries in the Pacific Northwest.
One leading Japanese automaker trumpets the start of fuel cell vehicle production as the other promises a plug-in hybrid by 2010, and there'll be a new option for fleets seeking CNG Chevy sedans this summer.
It's all in the June 23 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have theirs. Shouldn't you subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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November 26, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Two different types of hydrogen buses for London, six more diesel hybrids for London, new fuel cell buses for Oakland, an exit from automotive fuel cells, broader support for NGVs in Texas, clean commercial vehicles from a European OEM, clean fuels action (and inaction) in the Middle East, and a bid to boost natural gas vehicles in Southern California.
It's all in the November 26 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have the November 26 newsletter issue, replete with Key Contact information.
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November 5, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
The goal of thousands of cleaner vehicles for the nation's ports got a big boost as funding has come through, and LNG will fuel trucks for the household names Nike and Target -- as new sources of LNG supply are emerging.
In electric vehicles, at least four new plug-in hybrid trials are getting underway, and a U.S. battery manufacturer will supply Think Global in Norway in what it is said to be the largest automotive lithium ion deal ever.
The Federal Transit Administration and Calstart are working up a plan for electrification of the nation's buses, and a major California transit agency is testing tough-spec biodiesel and a clean, natural gas-derived GTL fuel in 22 in-service vehicles.
All this and more is in the November 5 issue of Fleets & Fuels. It's replete with key contact information (15 key players for the PHEV report alone).
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October 22, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
A pair of West Coast meetings kept clean vehicle advocates hopping last week, as NGVAmerica's national natural gas vehicles conclave was held in Reno, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District hosted the Southern California Clean Vehicle Technology Expo in Ontario, Calif.
The South Coast Expo was the more colorful of the two, with an impressive line-up of ride-and-drive vehicles ranging from diminutive scooters to bright yellow school buses, including electric drives. But the real excitement was in Reno, where a resurgent NGV sector sees its fuel making a major comeback among U.S. fleet customers (think fuel price, geopolitics, the environment, fuel price).
Attendees at both meetings basked in the prospect of more than $1 billion in alt fuels support as new legislation was signed by California Gov. Schwarzenegger.
Lots of NGV project and vehicle placement news, and significant electric vehicle action too: a Canadian lithium ion battery specialist is looking at a manufacturing joint venture in India, and partners are talking up the first-ever plug-in hybrid electric utility bucket truck.
GM, as widely reported, has begun deploying its 100-plus "Project Driveway" Equinox Fuel Cell cars. We tell how a major hydrogen provider is gearing up to help fuel them -- and how it's preparing for a competing automaker's 300-vehicle fuel cell vehicle deployment in 2009.
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October 8, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
A successful HTUF meeting in Seattle in the context of hybrid trucks in production by name OEMs, just as the transit agency in Philadelphia orders 400 (and perhaps 480) hybrid buses with parallel electric drives.
The Indiana company vying to be the first in the U.S. to commercialize lithium ion batteries for vehicles will unveil a line of 'plug-and-play' battery packs Tuesday. The firm unit has new government funding too.
A Massachusetts company has a $2 million Air Force contract for hybrids.
A Japanese manufacturer credits its own new high-pressure fuel tanks for a record setting run of its hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Japan.
A new company in New York plans to furnish CNG limousines for high-rollers, while even higher rollers, who fly in private jets, are being offered carbon offsets as operators fund alternative jet fuel research.
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September 17, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
The Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium today announces hydrogen fuel cell bus projects representing $54 million in research. We deliver contact information at more than 20 participating organizations.
A federal judge upholds the right of states to follow California's aggressive climate action plan, Ford raises the hybrid electric ante with a Volvo plug-in, Quantum teams with Fisker for luxury hybrids, Chrysler sets a hybrid division (and hires Jim Press from Toyota).
Distrust batteries? The U.S. EPA talks up hydraulic hybrid technology for port vehicles, while a British-Canadian concern says steam is the answer for vehicles ranging from passenger cars to container ships.
Clean Energy reveals the location of its new LNG plant in California, and GESI relocates in Los Angeles.
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September 3, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Hybrid trucks continue their commercialization march, transit agencies will soon be receiving alt fuel and hybrid versions of a new-design bus from Canada, Southern California clean air rules requiring alternative fuels for new fleet vehicle purchases are upheld.
A California company gets $6 million to fund development of a radical 3-wheel electric vehicle. The Mayor of San Francisco gives a boost to a premium hotel chain's plans to install EV chargers ? with drivers of a particular new premium EV in mind. A fuel cell car breaks 200mph at Bonneville.
Los Angeles tests what's believed to be the world's largest CNG bus.
We profile Delta-Q, a Canadian manufacturer of compact integrated chargers for mass-market electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrids.
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September 3, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Hybrid trucks continue their commercialization march, transit agencies will soon be receiving alt fuel and hybrid versions of a new-design bus from Canada, Southern California clean air rules requiring alternative fuels for new fleet vehicle purchases are upheld.
A California company gets $6 million to fund development of a radical 3-wheel electric vehicle. The Mayor of San Francisco gives a boost to a premium hotel chain's plans to install EV chargers ? with drivers of a particular new premium EV in mind. A fuel cell car breaks 200mph at Bonneville.
Los Angeles tests what's believed to be the world's largest CNG bus.
We profile Delta-Q, a Canadian manufacturer of compact integrated chargers for mass-market electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrids.
It's all in the September 3 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs, replete with dozens of new contacts. Shouldn't you subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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August 20, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
The North American natural gas vehicle fueling leader is branching to Peru as world sales of NGVs soar, with annual growth exceeding 30% over the past five years.
A new program is kicking off for hybrid yard hostlers for ports - maybe electric, maybe hydraulic. RAC fleets are snapping up the Prius. A Canadian company brings the benefits of SCR to diesel aftertreatment, while eliminating selective catalytic reduction's extra chemical tanks. At least three firms are trumpeting plans for cellulosic ethanol production in the U.S.
Volt developer gets tighter with Massachusetts battery outfit; deliveries of first-generation plug-in hybrid electric school buses continue; East Coast research agency gets its first plug-in, from a Canadian converter with its own advanced lithium batteries. A utility is already asking for a plug-in version of its HTUF service truck. Importer launches a low-speed battery truck from China, and details ambitious plans for a freeway-capable lithium ion passenger car.
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August 6, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
We thought plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were gaining momentum two weeks ago -- now Toyota has acknowledged road tests of eight vehicles in Japan and is even supplying two PHEV Prius cars for evaluation by two U.S. universities. We tell why... (and provide contact information for a slew of PHEV projects)
Fleets & Fuels reports on how a California transit agency is looking ahead to an electric drive/gaseous fuel future -- it may seek hybrid variants of some of its hundreds of on-order CNG buses. Updates on national hybrid refuse truck project (both electric and hydraulic variants are in the running) a report on the European Natural Gas Vehicle Association's recent annual meeting in Strasbourg, and a summary of pollution-cutting action at the Port of Oakland.
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May 7, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
A 150-unit buy of gasoline-fueled hybrid transit buses, battery truck partners tackling a plug-in hybrid, a Canadian agency's pending choice of a supplier of 20 fuel cell hybrid buses, and three CNG-hybrid projects.
A deep discount on fuel to consumers buying a new dedicated-compressed natural gas Honda Civic GX, good initial grades for a pair of International trucks re-powered for CNG in Texas, and a brand new taxi with CNG or propane from the factory (soon to enter production).
A profile of Canada's Electrovaya, a developer of versatile lithium polymer batteries with EV drivetrain design capabilities.
All of the above and much much more is in the May 7 issue of Fleets & Fuels, the tenth of 2007.
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April 23, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
Momentum is building for hybrid electric vehicles, including the grid-connected plug-in kind, with a strong vote of confidence from the California Air Resources Board on cars, new details about a utility-backed OEM truck with parallel plug-in drivetrain, and $14 million more in federal plug-in funding up for grabs.
Vehicle-to-grid technology -- V2G -- is getting substantial, mostly favorable attention.
A Japanese automaker is teaming with an electronics goliath with an eye to becoming a lithium ion/electric transportation powerhouse. Tesla chief Martin Eberhard reveals a bit about his batteries. New EV fleet sales in the UK (a score) and Mexico (a thousand). A Southern California company positions itself with one Chinese manufacturer for advanced vehicles and battery packs, and with another for CNG tanks. Heavy duty NGV leader steams ahead with a new CNG truck family in Europe. Oil and paper companies ponder a cellulose-based biofuels venture.
It's all in the April 23 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Regular Fleets & Fuels readers have theirs, with contact information for key players. Shouldn't you sign up for Fleets & Fuels too?
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April 9, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
The Supreme Court affirms that carbon dioxide may be regulated as a vehicle pollutant. Yet another name truckbuilder launches a hybrid electric model. A major diesel engine manufacturer approves B20. An Australian company tests CNG cement mixers.
Companies display all manner of advanced vehicles and lay out their plans for an alt fuels future at the AF&V 2007 convention in Anaheim. The electric vehicle association calls in the professionals to help organize EVS-23, slated for the same venue late in the year.
All of the details, with contact information for key players, is in the April 9 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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March 26, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels
A nickel battery leader seeks strategic alternatives, a Chicago start-up claims an answer to lithium ion thermal problems, the leading seller of hybrid passenger cars is making them available to rental car and other private fleets, a Northern Ireland busbuilder claims the first double-decker hybrid, a converter of diesel engines to natural gas pursues more power, a CNG fueling station specialist lines up a supplier of bigger compressors, a leading gas cylinder manufacturer will open a new CNG tank plant in California and branch into all-composite Type IVs, there is new biomethane progress in Europe, a team of German adventurers making the first-ever 'round-the-world trip on CNG arrives in the U.S., President Bush continues to stump for hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles.
All this and more is in the March 26 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels readers have all the details, including contact information.
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March 12, 2007 issue of
Fleets & Fuels Dear
Fleets & Fuels Reader,
Hybrid
vans for the new fiber optics arm of a huge telecom fleet, funding
of plug-in hybrids and natural gas vehicles in Los Angeles, deliveries
of plug-in hybrid school buses, and a shift in the fueling of CNG buses
on Long Island.
We give you a run-down of the top ten alt fuel vehicle cities in the
U.S., let you know who's the second retail customer for Honda's FCX
fuel cell car, and deliver a company profile of a natural gas engine
conversion specialist -- established in San Diego but based in the UK
now, and looking for an OEM partner.
More CHDV 2007 coverage, the Vanguard from UCS, modular hybrid
drives from Germany, and a new study of the alt fuels blogosphere.
10,000-psi hydrogen in Irvine, Calif., and the possibility for 28,000
battery EVs in France.
All the above and more is in the March 12 issue of Fleets &
Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have the details. Shouldn't YOU
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Rich Piellisch
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February 26, 2007 issue of
Fleets & Fuels Dear
Fleets & Fuels Reader,
From
Bush and Blair down to the tiny copper fins that can help shrink the
size and complexity of critical electric drive vehicle components, we
run the gamut in this week's issue of Fleets & Fuels. Two
English
e-truck manufacturers are placing their latest offerings with two giant
British retailers, a Washington State transit agency is mixing
biodiesel and ethanol, a Finnish company has a new biodiesel that has
none of biodiesel's problems, a heavy duty plug-in specialist has lined
up a motor supplier, several natural gas vehicle players look to be
changing hands, home CNG fueling catches on in Italy and the European
NGV Association makes the case for generous carbon credits for NGV
manufacturers.
We cover a conference that no one in the clean vehicles
industry should have missed.
It's all in the February 26 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
Fleets
& Fuels have the details on all of the above, and more, replete
with contact information for key players.
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February 12, 2007 issue of
Fleets & Fuels Dear
Fleets & Fuels Reader,
A
major international oil company is putting half a billion dollars into
biofuels, a household-name enginemaker is getting out of natural gas
vehicles, the lead U.S. automaker wants federal money to help develop
lithium batteries, an important battery research battery consultant
concurs that plug-ins aren't ready, California has $25 million to spend
on clean transportation projects, ports look to LNG, the car re-crowned
as the world's greenest retains its HOV lane eligibility in California.
We're impressed by a new argument by hydrogen
boosters, one they
should have been making all along. And we explain the strategy behind
Ford's recent showing of plug-in series hybrid hydrogen fuel cell
concept vehicles. Ford's HySeries chassis is shown here, as is a Honda
Civic GX zipping up the carpool lane.
Details of all of those items and more, much more, is in the
February 12 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels
readers
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January 29, 2007 issue of Fleets &
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Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
No, that's not a new ride for the governor. We're juxtaposing Schwarzenegger and a new purpose-built taxi offered with alt fuels as factory options to show that plenty is going on in addition to President Bush's embrace of plug-in battery cars in his State of the Union address -- other officials are doing more, and while Mr. Bush may have brushed aside issues like global warming in the past, numerous entrepreneurs have not.
We deliver details on lots of examples, from battery electrics to natural vehicles to E85-capable hybrids.
It's all in the January 29 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have the information. Shouldn't YOU subscribe to Fleets & Fuels too?
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January 15, 2007 issue of Fleets &
Fuels
Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have made widespread news as the lead U.S. vowed that it's serious about them and detailed a new SERIES drive concept, with implications that pure battery electrics are moving forward too.
They certainly are in England, where the world's oldest electric vehicle manufacturer has new battery electric truck models, and a big new plant to build them in. There's a new premium battery EV in California.
New heavy-duty hybrid electric trucks have been publicized by in the U.S., with one of them being developed for retail giant Wal-Mart. New distributors have been named for a line of hybrid electric buses. Prius sedans are available for fleets again. New York State detailed plans to convert more than 400 of its existing hybrids to plug-in operation.
All that, and much more, is in the January 15 issue of Fleets & Fuels, replete with Key Contact information. Fleets & Fuels subscribers have it all. Shouldn't YOU subscribe to Fleets & Fuels?
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January 1, 2007 issue of Fleets &
Fuels
Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
The January 1 issue of Fleets & Fuels is dedicated to biomethane. It's a special issue, ten pages, setting forth the great potential for biomethane and detailing some of the projects in Sweden, Switzerland, France and elsewhere in Europe, that are supplying fuel for substantial numbers of vehicles today.
Nascent projects in the United States are detailed too, and the issue includes a profile of a Seattle-based company that's leading the charge to tap landfills and other sources of biomethane gas to supply fuel for vehicles in the U.S.
It's all in the January 1, 2007 issue of Fleets & Fuels.
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Rich Piellisch
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December 11, 2006 issue of Fleets &
Fuels
Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
Two Southern California ports float a plan that's to involve, among many other measures, deployment of thousands of diesel-replacing LNG trucks.
The CEO of the leading America automaker pledges a plug-in hybrid, one week later a British automotive design specialist details a diesel-fueled plug-in it says can be built economically while achieving 88 miles per gallon.
Plans and indeed manufacturing are going forward for approximately 100 hybrid electric trucks, mostly utility bucket trucks, to join two dozen entering service. Industry awaits Washington action to make promised tax breaks for heavy duty hybrids a reality.
A compressed natural gas fueling supplier targets forklifts as a major manufacturer affirms that its new line will include options for gaseous fuels.
An agency in Texas is having trouble giving away $5 million.
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November 27, 2006 issue of Fleets &
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Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
Heavy duty hybrid vehicles dominate, as one supplier reports sales totaling 411 of its buses with series electric drives, and we feature a wrap-up of this month's Hybrid Truck Users Forum in San Diego.
Regular Fleets & Fuels readers already know all about HTUF. If you'd like to see what's new in heavy duty hybrids (and other alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles, replete with contact information), perhaps you should subscribe to Fleets & Fuels too.
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Rich Piellisch, Editor Fleets & Fuels San Francisco Subscriptions
November 13, 2006 issue of Fleets &
Fuels
Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
"I have never felt so important in my life," outgoing IANGV president Juan Carlos Fracchia said at NGV2006, the world natural gas vehicles meeting in Cairo, after touring the bustling show last week with officials including the Egyptian ministers of petroleum and the environment--and a swarm of local photographers.
NGV2006 wrapped up this past Thursday. Fleets & Fuels is pleased to bring you a very special report on the event. It's a somewhat larger issue than usual, with more pages and more pictures, and we think it will prove instructive to anyone in the business of alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles. Key contact information? Of course.
The vehicle pictured here (check out the Egyptian plates!) is a Volkswagen Caddy, stock save for the addition of nine all-composite Type IV CNG tanks affording a single-fill range of more than 1,550 miles. A team of German adventurers is bidding for a Guinness record, driving the car around the world solely on CNG, as part of a project backed by Swagelok. The vehicle was at NGV2006 in Cairo, is as of this writing passing through Diyarbakir, Turkey, and may well come to your town too: check out the Eco-Challenge at www.ecofuel-world-tour.com
Fleets & Fuels thanks Clean Energy and FuelMaker and, last but not least, Swagelok for making our own expedition to Cairo possible as well.
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Rich Piellisch, Editor Fleets & Fuels San Francisco Subscriptions
October 30, 2006 issue of Fleets &
Fuels
Dear Fleets & Fuels Reader,
A major Japanese utility outlines plans to replace thousands of its fleet
vehicles with electrics, a Japanese zaibatsu (you know the name) is
revealed as the supplier of key drivetrain components for hybrid
vehicles from GM, and a Chinese automotive research executive says
natural gas is the best way to accustom drivers to the changes
they’ll have to learn to make when moving, someday, from
today’s conventional fuels to hydrogen.
All that and much much more from the world electric vehicles meeting in Japan, which wrapped up in Yokohama last week.
Beyond EVS-22, a New York heavy hybrid drivetrain specialist has gone public,
and the organizer of San Diego’s HTUF meeting promises a
mid-November display of half a dozen hybrid trucks -- at least two of
them never shown before. Good news on natural gas vehicles from Europe.
too.
This news and more, replete with contact details, in the
October 30 issue of Fleets & Fuels. Fleets & Fuels subscribers
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Rich Piellisch, Editor Fleets & Fuels San Francisco Subscriptions
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