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New CNG Station Opened at Newport Beach

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:04:37 +0000

Clean Energy, Inc. and the City of Newport Beach, Calif., united to set up a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fuelling station in the city. The splendid opening was conducted on May 19.

Situated in the City’s General Services Corporation Yard, the CNG fuelling station will remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to serve public fleets and private fomites.

The City will receive a $0.05 (5 cent) royalty fee for every gallon sold at the station. The city press released that this arrangement was as per an agreement with Clean Energy.

The City of Newport Beach lately bought 4 CNG refuse accumulation trucks and will be looking at CNG supplied sedans and light trucks as it substitutes vehicles in the future.

Mayor Keith Curry explicated, “Converting to CNG is the right thing to do fiscally and environmentally. This public-private partnership will reduce our city energy costs, generate new revenue, and help clean up our environment. Being energy efficient is an important element of our Fiscal Sustainability Plan.”

Other companies and agents which will be using the refuelling station include AT&T, Yellow Cab, Waste Management, CR&R, Airport Shuttles, Athens Street Sweeping, and Ware Disposal.

Source: Goverment Fleet

A bid to Increase Natural gas vehicles

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:51:33 +0000

The Louisiana Oil and Gas Association are hopeful to convince Lafayette city-parish government and local companies to change over sufficient fomites to natural gas. This has to be done so that an exceptional refuelling station can be supported.

Apache Corporation which is an oil-and-gas company based at Houston is taking into account the construction of the natural gas station if there is a home committedness to change 50 to 100 vehicles. Spokespeople from LOGA and Apache visited the town on Monday to stimulate awareness.

City-Parish President Joey Durel quoted that “Everything we are hearing is that it could save us quite a bit of money.” He further added that there was a second advantage which is that there is a plentiful supply of natural gas in Louisiana, particularly after the foremost Haynesville Shale breakthroughs in the northern part of the state.

He stated that the city was working with LOGA to compute the cost of conversion of city vehicles to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Calculations as to how much the city could economize by utilizing the billed CNG as a ‘cleaner-burning gas’ which is domestic and a cheap substitute to gasoline is also going on.

LOGA Vice President Gifford Briggs stated on Monday at an event that “If it doesn’t save us money, none of us would be here talking about it.” He further stated that “But the switch to using it as a fuel for vehicles would take some work.”

Source: 2Theadvocate

First CNG-Powered Ambulance in USA’s Palm Desert

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:22:26 +0000

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.

California Bus Co. Finishes Conversion to CNG

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:08:44 +0000

Omnitrans which is a public transportation agency helping the San Bernardino Valley, California, is finishing its changeover to a 100% alternative-fuel-led fleet. Deliverance and commissioning of 27 new 40-foot low-floor CNG buses constructed by New Flyer Inc. of Canada will conclude the transition stage which had commenced in the year 1997.
Durand L. Rall who is the CEO/General Manager of the corporation stated that “Omnitrans embraced CNG bus engine technology early on as part of our commitment to being environmentally friendly. “With this purchase, we are replacing the last of our diesel buses as well as our first generation of CNG buses.”
Omnitrans has remarked on the benefits of the environment when using CNG. The corporation has remarked that “Natural gas buses reduce smog-forming emissions by 87% compared to diesel buses. Using Omnitrans for one day instead of driving cuts carbon emissions by 20 pounds. Over a year, that translates to nearly 5,000 pounds of emissions.”

Source: NGV Global

Altech-Eco gets Permission from EPA

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:03:42 +0000

Altech-Eco Corporation, which is a ground breaker in alternative fuel transition technologies for automobiles, declared they have received a Certificate of Conformity from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their compressed natural gas (CNG) devoted alteration system for the Ford Focus models 2008 & 2009 which is equipped with the 2.0 liter engine.
Under the EPA’s categorization system this dedicated transition conversion system has now attained the cleanest possible expelling rating for an inner combustion engine. Thus it qualifies for a $4,000.00 Federal Tax Credit.
This CNG Focus attains innovative cleaner discharges while representing the enormous environmental welfares and big cost savings of natural gas as a conveyance fuel. Par Neiberger the Director of Certification and Regulatory Affairs of Altech-Eco, said “We are extremely proud that this is the cleanest CNG conversion system in today’s marketplace, and that it achieves emissions results cleaner than any internal combustion vehicle currently being produced by an automotive manufacturer. This vehicle is now available for immediate sale to Government, municipalities and industry, as well as the consumer”. Altech-Eco’s EPA permitted CNG fuel transition system helps the environment by allowing for the cleanest discharges of any production inner combustion vehicle.

AT&T to Change Over 600 of its Vehicles to CNG

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:06:56 +0000

On the 30th of June AT&T along with BAF Technologies a Dallas-based company declared the switch of vehicles bought by AT&T to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). BAF Technologies, a supplier of natural gas vehicle, will convert 600 Ford E-Series vans to CNG technology in 2009.
AT&T has plans to spend an anticipated $350 million to buy about 8,000 CNG vehicles. The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Mich., figures that the AT&T’s fleet purchase plan will be able to provide more than 1,000 jobs in the United States.
In summation to the economic benefits, CAR approximates the novel vehicles will preserve 49 million gallons of gasoline and cut down carbon discharges by 211,000 metric tons over the 10-year readying period.

Source: Automotive Fleet

Surtis change over to CNG

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:38:58 +0000

The zooming mercury has contributed to a new gush in demand for CNG changeover kits in the city of Surat, India. The number of car owners switching over to CNG has more or less doubled in the last two months. The climb in the demand is comprehensible. With CNG evidencing a cheap alternative against petrol, Surtis are vanquishing the heat in the console of their cars.

The official data from Regional Transport Office also confirms that the registration of CNG kits in private cars has nearly doubled in March and April when compared to previous months. In April alone, there was a registration of around 1,000 cars against the average 500 per month. It is expected that the CNG kit registration will increase further by the end of May.

There are approximately 100 retrofitters marketing CNG kits fabricated by around 29 companies in the country and also in countries like Japan and Italy. The prices of CNG kit, which was between Rs.45,000 and Rs. 50,000, is now only between Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 40,000

Source: Times of India