On January 22 in the City of Palm Desert the first new compressed natural gas powered ambulance and medic unit will be unveiled. This CNG powered ambulance will be first of its kind in the United States on. Faced with the requirement to substitute a senescing diesel ambulance and medic unit, the Palm Desert City Council guided staff to research the option of buying an ambulance which could run on compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of gasoline or diesel.
As CNG-powered ambulances did not exist in the United States the City staff determined to alter existing ambulance component parts. They made use of a Frazer Type III 14-foot patient compartment and a 2009 Ford E450 6.8L gasoline body. All these elements were combined and changed so that a dedicated CNG engine would allow the instalment of three cylinders which could carry around 26 gallons equivalent of CNG resulting in a total cost of roughly USD 186,000.
Frazer Ambulance, a Texas-based constructor of generated power ambulances, and BAF Technologies which is a specified natural gas vehicle transition company worked jointly to alter the ambulance so that it could make use of compressed natural gas.
The unit will be grounded at Fire Station 71, located at Portola Avenue and Country Club Drive. The new CNG-powered ambulance will begin to respond to calls from this location. Station 71 was picked out for the reason that it had very high call volume with a mean of 200 ambulance calls per month.
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