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With the price of oil again well above $100 per barreland rising due to turmoil in supplier nations no onewould have anticipated scant months ago, the nationalTruck Equipment Association seems to have had a crys-tal ball as it hosts its fourth Green Truck Summit, andthe second co-organized with Calstart.

Fleet operators no longer have just planet-saving forgoing green, as it’s clear that new technologies for sav-ing fuel and allowing use of domestic alternatives, while

not at all cheap, now have a clear path for paying forthemselves within the working lives of the people whomake the decisions to buy them.

Dozens of companies are promoting alternative fueland fuel-saving hybrid and other technologies at thisweek’s Work Truck Show. Hybrid electrics, propane,lithium ion, natural gas, hydraulic hybrids, plug-ins...They’re all represented here.

—more Green Truck Summit on pages 6-7

The Time Is Right for Work Trucking Green

Hino’s Launching Its Hybrid Here

Terex Utilities has agreed to distribute plug-in hybrid electric drivetrains by Odyne, taking the fuel-saving product (which is get-ting a new battery technology) far beyond itscurrent 15-state territory. —Page 5

Eaton offers several varietiesof both electric and hydraulicdrivetrains. Eaton Hybrid

Power Systems Division business develop-ment and marketing director Seth Deutschtalks ROI and market share and more.

—Page 12

Eaton Speaks

Terex for Odyne

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Allison Transmission and BAE Systems areworking government-backed initiatives thatmay take the two (parallel and series, respectively) bus hybrid drivetrain leadersinto the truck sector. Watch for BAE Systems to reveal further details here today.

Big Boys in BusesEye Hybrid Trucks

The Prius of trucks? That may prove a little strong, but Toyota’s Hino Trucks

is introducing a long-awaited hybrid truck here this afternoon. The diesel-

fueled Class 4/5 COE (cab-over-engine vehicle boasts an all-new design with

a new and more powerful 4-cylinder J-Series engine of approximately 200

horsepower. The parallel hybrid electric drivetrain employs nickel metal

hydride batteries – just like that Prius. Hino is at Booth 4131.

The Indiana Department of Transportation,taking advantage of federal largesse, is con-verting more than 200 of its pickups and vansto bi-fuel gasoline-propane, tapping an Indiana upfitter that’s exhibiting here – andhas lots of other irons in the fire. —Page 10

Indiana Propane

Green Truck –Work Truck 2011

In the driver’s seat of compressed natural gas-fueled Business Class M2 is Dave Bryant of Freightliner, and at his left on the ladder is National Truck Equipment Association executive director Jim Carney. Calstart president and CEOJohn Boesel is at front left. Agility Fuel Systems is the truck’s CNG tank assembly provider, and Agility president Ron Eickelman is at center. NTEA business development director Doyle Sumrall gives his thumbs-up at far right.

It’s a modest project, just 100 GGE per day,but Iowa’s Unison is showing that cow manure really can power vehicles at a brandnew installation in Wisconsin. —Page 6

Biomethane Rolls

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There are green truck options across the entirety of Work Truck Show 2011 at theIndiana Convention Center. Enjoy, and Learn!

Inspect more than a dozen vehicleswith the latest fuel-saving and alternative fueltechnologies at the WTS 2011Green Truck Ride-and-Drive, Tuesdayand Wednesday afternoons.

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The Calstart- and National Truck Equipment Associ-ation-produced Green Truck Summit continues herethis Tuesday morning, affording an opportunity for abroad look at the options available for making fleetvehicles more environmentally benign – and oftencheaper to run.

There are three scheduled sessions:A Sneak Peek at the Trucks of the Future (Keynote)Tuesday, March 8, 8:00am–9:00amPresented by: Connie Burek, Solutions Specialist,Heavy Equipment & Truck, International BusinessMachine, Inc. (Brimfield, IL); and Rob Stevens, ChiefEngineer, Ford Commercial Truck (Dearborn, MI)Electrifying Your Vehicle: Electrification of Propulsion SystemsTuesday, March 8, 9:00am–10:00amPresented by: Larry Kubes, Engineering Director,Remy, Inc. (Pendleton, IN); John Mullins, Chief Op-erating Officer, Enova Systems (Torrance, CA); andDr. Rudy Smaling, Chief Engineer, Eaton Corporation(Galesburg, MI)

Gaseous Fuels: What’s Working Now; What’s Coming NextTuesday, March 8, 10:15am–11:15amPresented by: Bill Burns, Fleet Operations Manager,City of Columbus (Columbus, OH); Steve McConnell,Lead Fuels Engineer, Center for Transportation Re-search, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL);and Marianne Mintz, Transportation Systems Plan-ner, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne Na-tional Laboratory (Argonne, IL)

And When the Green Truck Summit wraps, Work Truck Show 2011 will have begun!

Green Truck SummitContinues This Morning

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Calstart senior VP Bill Van Amburg here Monday

Best wishes for an educational, engaging, and enjoyable 2011 WorkTruck Show.

John BoeselPresident and CEO

CALSTART

PS. Don't forget to visit Booth 5367in the CALSTART Clean Tech andFuels Pavilion, Exhibit Hall I.

We hope you’re enjoying and profiting by the GreenTruck Summit at the 2011 Work Truck Show here in Indianapolis.

CALSTART is pleased to be continuing our collab-oration with our friends at the National Truck Equip-ment Association in organizing this year’s Summit. Wewrap up the Summit this morning, but the Work TruckShow opens at 11:00 and runs though Thursday, repletewith the CALSTART Clean Tech and Fuels Pavilion onthe exhibition floor.

NTEA’s Green Truck Ride-and-Drive kicks off atnoon and repeats on Wednesday from noon-4:30pm.

In the Calstart Pavilion you’ll see some of the mostinnovative solutions to the challenges the transportationsector and our nation face: rising energy costs, climatechange, air pollution, and foreign oil dependence. Visitthe Pavilion and learn about the latest in clean truck prod-ucts, technologies and services, and then get out thereand kick the tires of some of the most advanced truckson the planet.

A number of CALSTART member companies madesignificant new product and technology announcementsat this year’s Green Truck Summit, and there’ll be manymore as the Work Truck Show gets going. Be sure toread Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes to stay on top of the news.

The timing of WTS 2011 could not be better. Thereis an emerging consensus among industry analysts andforeign policy experts that we are looking at a future ofincreased oil prices. We’ve seen it ourselves the just the

past few weeks. Fortu-nately, this year’s NTEAshow features a growingarray of solutions thatwill not only help greenthe truck industry, butalso help fleets reducetheir dependence on anincreasingly volatileglobal oil market.

From advanced pro-pulsion systems, to moreefficient components, toclean fuels, fleet man-agers will find they havemany more choices thanthey had even last year.These choices are economically viable, and they improvefleets’ bottom lines. Fleets can improve their economicperformance, while also doing the right thing for our na-tion’s energy security and for the environment.

Through our extensive network of companies, gov-ernment officials, and policymakers, the CALSTARTteam has access to a rich base of data and knowledgeabout the latest in green truck technology. I hope thatyou’ll take the opportunity to spend time with our tal-ented team here in Indianapolis and explore ideas on howwe can help your fleet make the right choices – or, ifyou are a green truck supplier or manufacturer, how wecan help you grow your business.

Calstart president & CEO John Boesel makes a point with some important lookers-on.

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Siemens Traction Hybrid Drive systems enable mass transit vehicles to save over 30% in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Can we slow climate change without slowing down?

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Terex will distribute and support utility truckswith the Odyne plug-in hybrid electric drivetrain,taking the fuel-efficient vehicles beyond parentDueco’s 15-state territory.

Odyne’s plug-in hybrids increase fuel efficiencywhile driving by using an electric motor in par-allel with the existing drive train, providing launchassist and regenerative braking. The modular sys-tem can be installed “on a wide variety of new andexisting vehicles, reducing fuel consumption by

up to 50% depending on application.” Terex is promoting its battery-driven HyPower

aerial lift, designed for operators wishing to re-duce engine idling at job sites. Although inde-pendent of the propulsion driveline, it can savea gallon of fuel per working hour, or from 600to 1,000 gallons of fuel per year. The designemploys lead acid batteries to power a hydraulicsystem developed in league with Parker Hannifin.

The system charges overnight on standard 110-volt, 20-amp power, or a five-minuteengine-on recharge affords about 15minutes of boom operating time.

The two firms are sharing Booth5157 in the Calstart Pavilion.

Odyne aims its turnkey hybridupfits at fleets with start-stop driv-ing cycles and extended periods ofjobsite idle time.

Sales orders domestically are upsubstantially in 2011 and the agree-ment with Terex “is anticipated tosignificantly expand opportunities,”Odyne says, pegging the world mar-ket at 250,000 units per year for newand retrofit work trucks.

“We believe that the work truck

industry will be strongly affected by advance-ments in vehicle efficiency in the coming yearsand we are excited to be at the leading edge,”Odyne president and CEO Joe Dalum said in arelease. With Terex, “We will have comprehen-sive coverage of the North American market andglobal reach,” he said.

“It’s really going to help us in the Californiamarket,” adds sales chief Matt Jarmuz. Terex willtake on the aftermarket support of Odyne vehi-cles too, he told F&F, noting the availability of amajor maintenance center in Fontana, Calif.

Odyne is beginning the shift from lead acid toinitially more expensive, but life-cycle cost-sav-ing lithium ion batteries (details this spring).

Terex to Distribute Odyne Plug-In Hybrids

Nick Cammisa of Terex demonstrates the battery-powered, HyPower aerial lift at Booth 5157.

Odyne sales and marketing director Matt Jarmuz

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Dubuque, Iowa-based Unison Technologiesstarted up one of the nation’s few biomethane-for-vehicles project at the Rodefeld Landfill inDane County, Wisc. late in December, companypresident Jan Scott reported at the Green TruckSummit here yesterday.

The small-scale, dairy-based facility is designedto produce about 100 GGE (gasoline gallonsequivalents) daily.

In part because its use offsets emissions ofmethane, a far more potent greenhouse gas thancarbon dioxide, biomethane has often been de-scribed as the cleanest by far of all fuels. Biogascan be drawn from municipal waste, landfills,food or agricultural waste. For all of them thechallenge is in the removal of moisture, carbondioxide and other contaminants to make bio-methane of a quality suitable for pipeline injec-tion or vehicle use.

Gas purification hardware for the Unison in-stallation cost about eight times as much as theassociated compressed natural gas fueling in-stallation, Scott said.

Tax regulations also favor the use of biogas tomake electricity over upgrading to biomethane.

Green Truck Summit organizer Calstart hasbeen a long-time promoter of biomethane, host-ing conferences on the fuel and tours of successfulfacilities as far afield as Sweden.

Calstart helped write the grant applicationsfor two projects out of five just proposed for atotal of $26 million in California Energy Com-mission funding:

CR&R Incorporated is to receive a proposed$4.5 million to apply anaerobic digestion to make

biomethane from municipal garbage in Perris(south of Riverside, Calif.). CR&R operates some150 LNG and compressed natural gas trucks, butprefers pipeline injection for the Perris bio-methane, with arrangements for fleets to buy thegreen fuel on an offset basis.

Northstate Rendering is to receive just shy of$3.96 million in CEC grant money, plus$1,500,000 in loan funding with a $3,958,150match, to construct an anaerobic digestion fa-cility in Oroville, north of Sacramento. “We’retaking the more troublesome waste that North-state Rendering takes in, mostly grease and foodwaste, and diverting that material to digestersand making it into CNG for Northstate to runits trucks,” says Brian Gannon, president of proj-ect partner BioGas Energy.

Calstart is forming a Renewable Natural GasIndustry Action Group (RNG-IAG) to help ad-vance the use of RNG-biomethane as a trans-portation fuel. The organization “wants to helpthis industry get the funds, recognition and sup-port it needs,” says clean transportation solutionsdirector Mike Ippoliti.

“We see RNG as a win-win,” he says. “It takeswaste streams and creates a fuel that displaces pe-troleum. It solves a problem while creating asolution. And it does this with proven technol-ogy, no breakthroughs needed, and is ready toscale-up today.

“[California Air Resources Board] analysis hasshown that RNG has the lowest greenhouse gasimpact of any vehicle fuel they’ve examined,” Ippoliti says, “lower even than an EV running onCalifornia grid electricity.”

System startup for Unison biomethane unit at Rodefeld Landfill in Wisconsin took place on Dec. 28.

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Quallion is promoting its lithium ion idle-reduction unit at Booth 5457 (see page 8).

Work Truck Operators Are Going Green as Sales Rebound

Some 63% of operators say their green man-date comes principally through internal com-pany initiatives rather than regulation or otherinfluences, according to a recent fleet sur-vey by the Green Truck Association, pre-sented at the Green Truck Summit Mondayby NTEA senior director of business devel-opment Doyle Sumrall.

“Operators are not just purchasing to com-ply,” Sumrall said. Fuel is a significant costdriver for most operators and climbing fuelcosts will continue as strong incentive to in-crease efficiency.

Nearly two thirds of operators say they aremaking changes to specifications for vehi-cles to improve fuel efficiency, with idle re-duction and weight saving most frequentlycited. Compared to last year’s survey, weightreduction surged 20%, while improved aero-dynamics is up 8%.

After four years of steep declines, trucksales expanded in 2010, and are expectedto continue growing at or above industr ynorms for the next few years. With the in-creased sales comes more opportunity forfielding new technologies.

All forms of alternative fuel vehicles are en-joying growth with CNG and LPG fleets climb-ing to approximately 50,000 and 40,000trucks, respectively in 2010. And while muchless prevalent, other technologies are grow-ing at a much faster pace. For instance, thenumber of pure electric trucks in use is pro-jected to triple this year from 200 to 600. Hy-draulic Hybrids also are enjoying fast growth,climbing from 100 to more than 300 this year,according to Sumrall’s data.

Sumrall also heads the Green Truck As-sociation, founded last year as an NTEA an-cillary division.




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With the burden for meeting new NHTSA/EPAfuel standards falling to OEMs, most fleet operators will primarily experience fuel savingsand potentially a greater range of new vehicleoptions employing all electric, hybrid and alternative fuel technologies. With that power-ful selling point, OEMs will be able to take advantage of advanced technology and innova-tion credits as they seek to bring their productsinto compliance with the new regulations.

OEM representatives discussed strategies formeeting the new rules at the Green Truck Sum-mit Monday, saying the early phases of imple-mentation will not require radical newtechnology, but that meeting the standards devised for 2017 will force innovation through-out the drivetrain.

With the comment period on the proposedrules now closed, industry expects the final ruleto be released by NHTSA/EPA this July. Andwhile details are being drafted, the broad frame-work calls for new standards for three categories

of heavy trucks: • For combination tractors, the agencies are pro-posing engine and vehicle standards that beginin the 2014 model year and achieve up to a 20%reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions andfuel consumption by 2018 model year. • For heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans, theagencies are proposing separate gasoline anddiesel truck standards, which phase in startingin the 2014 model year and achieve up to a 10%reduction for gasoline vehicles and 15% reduc-tion for diesel vehicles by 2018 model year.• For vocational vehicles, the agencies are pro-posing engine and vehicle standards starting inthe 2014 model year which would achieve up toa 10% reduction in fuel consumption and CO2emissions by 2018 model year.

The new regulations were conceived withbroad goals that go well beyond reducing vehi-cle emissions, according to National HighwayTraffic and Safety Administrator David Strick-land, who delivered the keynote address at the

Green Truck Summit.“It’s never been more important to focus on

how we evolve the fleet,” he said, citing energycosts, energy supply issues, global competitionand the president’s desire to foster innovationas a means of maintaining a competitive edge.“We have an opportunity to use our technologyto solve the hard problems of today so we canbe the leader tomorrow.”

Strickland applauded broad participation incommenting on the Notice of Proposed Rule-making (NPRM) that will form the basis of spe-cific rules, pledging to incorporate industryconcerns. “We understand that technology is not free,” he said. “We understand there needs to be an opportunity to get a return on investment.”

Strickland also pledged technology neutral-ity. “We are not in the technology choice busi-ness,” he said. “We want to create a frameworkthat allows the creativity and innovation of themanufacturers to compete.”

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Siemens, which supplies motors and controls forelectric drive buses – and trains and mining ve-hicles and ships and more – is targeting the truck

market for its Elfa brand componentry, and ismaking its first Work Truck Show appearance atBooth 4582.Siemens also supplies the motor for the batteryelectric version of Ford’s Transit Connect byAzure Dynamics, on show by Ford CommercialTruck at Booth 3431.

Siemens has been the supplier of motors andcontrol electronics to San Diego’s ISE Corp,which has used the hardware for hybrid transitbuses for Long Beach and other California cities,as well as hydrogen fuel cell buses.

Also via ISE, Siemens Elfa motors are on 50 articulated buses by Northern Ireland’sWrightbus in Las Vegas, and on three hybridelectric Crane Carrier refuse trucks being testedin New York City.

Siemens outfitted a Workhorse shuttle bus asa series hybrid electric using a Elfa motor, gen-erator and inverter with a NiMHax 336-70 nickelmetal hydride battery pack by Michigan’sCobasys, all integrated by Azure Dynamics, anddrove it from Alpharetta, Ga. to Calstart’s HTUF2010 conference and show in Michigan this pastfall. The crew recorded 8.63 miles per gallon ofgasoline compared with just 5 to 6 mpg for acomparable conventional bus, said project man-ager Josh Nelke. Also saved was the fuel the crewwould have consumed by flying, and for truck-ing the bus to the show.

Berlin- and Munich-headquartered Siemens,which has some 400,000 employees worldwide

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Siemens Targets Trucks with Its Elfa Drives

Azure’s Ford Transit Connect is powered by aSiemens motor, and Siemens has bought oneand deployed it in Alpharetta, Ga., where it’salso evaluating its in-house line of electric vehicle chargers.

Siemens is supplying motors for the batteryelectric version of the Transit Connect byFord (Booth 3431). The vehicles are shippedas “gliders” from a Ford plant in Turkey andfitted with all-electric drivetrains with JCI-Saft lithium ion batteries – and Siemens mo-tors – by Azure Dynamics. Customers beganreceiving their vehicles last year. Azure saidlast month that 76 new dealers wouldoffer the Transit Connect, as well as the FordE450-based Balance parallel hybrid.

Thomas Orberger of Siemens at Booth 4582.

Wisconsin’s Miller Electric is launching its anti-idling EnPak Air Power 40 at Booth 3336: “atruck-integrated, engine-driven air compressorand generator that eliminates the need for hy-draulically driven standalone or under-hoodcompressors, and integrates seamlessly into atruck’s electrical and fuel systems.”

The Air Power 40 allows field service per-sonnel to run air and power tools off one unitwith the truck’s main engine off. “It lowers fuelcosts up to 30%, reduces truck engine hours upto 60%, lowers truck noise and reduces exhaustfumes in the work area,” the company says.

The system uses a 27-horsepower Kubotadiesel engine tied directly to the truck’s regularfuel and electrical systems.

Miller is also promoting its new EnPak LifeCycle Costs Calculator, allowing fleet managers

to plug in real field data and calculate potentialsavings in fuel, service intervals and asset life extension. The product takes into account suchdata as truck engine model, local cost of fuel, annual operating days, operating hours, fleet size,maintenance intervals and costs, estimated operating life of the truck and resale costs.

Miller Electric’sEnPak Air Power

Miller’s EnPak products eliminate the need fortruck power takeoff, providing field mechanicspower for air tools, hydraulic cranes and electri-cal equipment – “all with the truck turned off.”

Quallion for HybridLithium Ion Packs

Advanced battery specialist Quallion is pro-moting a new anti-idling heating, ventilating,and air conditioning unit at Booth 5457. TheQuallion HVAC “meets OEM specification requirements while offering 10 hours of uninterrupted battery-powered cooling.”

Compared to diesel products, there is a67% reduction in fuel use and carbon diox-ide emissions, Quallion says, and “it is halfthe volume, 41% lower in weight, and is only50% as loud.”

The Los Angeles-based company hasbeen awarded a $1.43 million U.S. Ad-vanced Batter y Consor tium contract todemonstrate its Matrix brand battery packs,described as a hybrid pack as they employa mixture of high-power and high-energylithium ion cells. (see photo page 6)

Siemens for Azure

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Roush Cleantech, which is exhibit-ing at Booth 4983, said yesterday thatit has certified Ford E-series vanswith the 5.4-liter engine for dedi-cated-propane operation, adding toraft of approvals for the firm’s liq-uid injection system.

The California nod applies toFord E-150, E-250, and E-350 vansserving cargo and passenger markets.

“CARB certification is that finalnod of approval needed to launch afull line of clean burning propane-autogas-powered passenger andcargo vans to fleet managers in Cal-ifornia and other states, who havebeen eagerly awaiting the availabil-ity of our cost-effective alternativefuel solution,” said Roush Clean-Tech president Joe Thompson.

States following CARB guide-lines include Connecticut, Florida,Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,

New Mexico, New Jersey,New York, Oregon,Rhode Island, Vermont,and Washington, Roushsays. “This is truly excit-ing news,” Thompsonsaid.

Roush already has amajor customer too, asSouthern California’sPrime Time Shuttle hascommitted to convert itsfleet – the first groundtransportation serving theLos Angeles InternationalAirport to do so. “PrimeTime has 15 units readyfor deployment with an-other 35 to 40 vehiclesbeing added in the next few months.Over the next two years, Prime Timehas committed to replacing their en-tire 175-van fleet with cleaner-burn-

ing propane autogas technology,”Roush said yesterday.

Autogas is a common name forpropane-LPG (liquefied petroleum

gas in Europe, and is coming intoincreasing use here. Todd Mouw issales and marketing VP at RoushCleanTech.

Roush Cleantech is on this van on display by Knapheide Manufacturing at Booth 3741.

Roush Certifies Ford Vans for Propane

While the Green Product Show-case here is dominated by so-phisticated systems like hybriddrives, alternative fuel technol-ogy, and electrically-powered en-vironmental controls and lifts, forRumber Products (Booth 834)being green is decidedly more straightforward.

The Muester, Texas-based company manu-factures durable products from 100% recycled

tires and plastics. Products ondisplay here include wheelchocks, truck beds and dunnageboards.

Rumber promotes its productsas stronger than other compos-ites and impervious to fluids,

mud, oil and UV rays. The rumber boards don’tcrack or split, offer good traction and can becut with a saw, the company says.

Green Alternative Systems, established just lastyear by California’s Creative Bus Sales in Elkhart,Ind. is promoting both compressed natural gas

and propane vehicle conversions at Booth 5356 –and is offering customers the choice of at leasttwo fuel system providers for each.

In CNG, GAS offers fuel systems by BAFTechnologies (since October 2009 a unit ofClean Energy Fuels; Booth 5356) for FordE350 and -450 and F-550 vehicles, and fromLandi Renzo USA-Baytech for GeneralMotors Chevy G3500/4500/5500 vehicles.

GAS uses lightweight Type III (carbonfiber on aluminum) CNG fuel cylindersby Luxfer and fittings and tubing fromSwagelok on its CNG upfits.

In propane-LPG, GAS offers bothCleanFuel USA and Roush Cleantech (Booth4983) conversions.

Green Alternative Systems for CNG and Propane

Joe Craig of GAS at Booth 5356.

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2008 Ford crew cab pickup, typical of INDOT vehicles converted to gasoline-propane bi-fuel.

Hundreds of PropaneVehicles for Indiana

Federal money is helping the Indiana Depart-ment of Transportation convert 226 of its work-ing pickups and vans to propane-gasoline bi-fueloperation, and establish a fueling network at115 mostly INDOT locations in the state.

The vehicles include Ford E-250 vans used by state signaltechnicians and survey crews,and Ford F-250 and F-350crew-cab pickups.

Work is starting this week atImpco Automotive (Booth 718) in

Union City, Ind. , on the Ohio border north-east of here, says INDOT spokesman WillWingfield. (The Impco Automotive operationwas formerly known as Productive Concepts,

Inc., acquitted by Impco parent Fuel SystemSolutions last year. New compressed naturalgas vans offered as OEM vehicles by GeneralMotors (1833) are also being processed there.

Impco is using hardware from Arizona’sCampbell-Parnell for the first 98 of thepropane Fords for INDOT. The ve-hicles are E-250s and F-350s, all with5.4-liter engines, dating from 2002 to2006. Campbell-Parnell has adaptivesystem that works via a vehicle’s orig-inal ECU, yet creates a fuel map foreach individual cylinder, says co-ownerTom Campbell.

INDOT is currently focusing on integrat-ing the new propane fueling network with ex-isting payment systems. The Alliance AutoGasstations will initially be for INDOT drivers only,but may later be opened to other fleets.

It’s all being paid for with some $6.3 millionof a $10.125 million Clean Cities ARRA grant

to Indiana that could also include 47 heavytrucks fueled by dairy-derived biomethane.

INDOT has purchased 19 new compressednatural gas-fueled Kenworth T440 dump trucks,for use in and around Indianapolis, wherepublic CNG fueling is available. “The grant has

allowed us to get equipment that typically hasbeen out of reach for us,” says INDOT spokes-man Will Wakefield.

INDOT’s new Kenworth T440s have 8.9-liter, dedicated-natural gas ISL G engines fromCummins Westport (Booth 609).

“The grant has allowed us toget equipment that typicallyhas been out of reach for us”

– INDOT spokesman Will Wakefield

Circles representing range show how115 propane fueling stations covernearly all of Indiana’s territory.




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The Hybrid Vehicle Incentive Program, the Cal-start-California Air Resources Board initiative tohelp operators offset the cost premiums on hybridelectric vehicles, is moving into its second year withnearly $19 million in funding, in-cluding $2 million reserved for pub-lic fleets. Fleets can get as much as$30,000 per truck.

“We’ve got $2,425,00 in vouchersrequested so far,” Calstart’s Denver-based TomBrotherton said on the eve of WTS-11. Calstartawarded $19,440,000 last year, supporting the

placement of 667 hybrid vehicles. Put another way, HVIP 2010 grew the overall

California fleet by nearly a third, Calstart says. HVIP was named as one of the top emerging

energy efficiency programs in thecountry this past fall by the Ameri-can Council for an Energy-EfficientEconomy.

“This is an example of a smartprogram that works in California, and will be easyto adopt in other states,” said Calstart presidentand CEO John Boesel. Booth 5367.

New Eagle forTaking Control

Michigan’s New Eagle is promoting itswide expertise in controls for advancedtechnology vehicles at Booth 5165. TheAnn Arbor firm, which recently movedinto a new facility, provides both con-trollers for electric drive vehicles and thesoftware necessary to design such prod-ucts under the Mototron and MotoHawkbrandnames.

New Eagle’s expertise (and customerlist) extends to hydraulic hybrid vehiclesand propane and natural gas engine con-trols too, says founder and business development director Rich Swortzel. NewEagle supports both OEM and retrofitproducts.

At Calstart’s Hybrid Truck User Forumthis past autumn, New Eagle “suppliedone-third of the trucks in the show,”Swor tzel said. “The Parker systems,Terex, Altec, Dueco, Bright, ALTe, Remyall had New Eagle electronics on board,”he told Fleets & Fuels.

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Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes: Whatmight we say about incrementalcosts on the hybrid vehicles? Arethey coming down? It’s clear that re-turn on investment will come fasterif fuel prices are higher.

Seth Deutsch: When we first broughtthis system out, most of the applica-tions for this parallel electric systemwere looking at 12- to 15-year oreven higher payback kind of esti-mates or calculations. With whatwe’re doing in terms of growing thescale of the business, integrating innew advanced lower cost compo-nents, we are going to be able to de-liver five-year payback in a widevariety of applications by year-end2011. When you’re talking about ve-hicles that these customers are keep-ing for 10, 12, 15 years, we think thatgets into a realm of very attractivefinancial return – as well as a very at-tractive environmental return. It’swhat I call getting the customer intoa no-regret decision to spec thistechnology as a standard spec insteadof an experiment. We’re on theprecipice of turning this from nicheto really the right spec in key appli-cations, and to me, that’s the bigstory over the next 12 months.

F&FST: Eaton’s volume leader is theparallel electric? SD: Yes. With the parallel system inthe architecture that we have com-mercialized, even if you have a verysignificant issue with the hybrid sys-tem, typically it can just fall back into standard propulsion mode and

move just fine, and complete its mis-sion and get serviced.

F&FST: What is the biggest, most im-portant market for you? SD: Certainly at this point, the par-allel electric has been the one we gotinto production first. We’ve had thebroadest penetration and market ap-plication. We’ve got the most num-bers on the road. We issued a pressrelease at year-end that we hit 100million miles. That was with that ar-chitecture and that product, and wecontinue to see significant growth anddemand for that type of technology.

F&FST: When for the second 100 mil-lion miles? A billion?SD: We are accumulating at justunder about 10 million a month,somewhere between 9 and 10 mil-lion a month right now. We’ll cer-tainly see 200 million by the end ofthe year. I’d say end of 2014, end of2015 [for a billion].

F&FST: Is your emphasis in hydraulicshybrids likewise the parallel archi-tecture?SD: The parallel hydraulic system isvery focused on refuse collection ap-plications. There’s a fantastic valueproposition there. We just put thatinto limited release last year and we’llbe expanding the release of thatproduct and the volumes going outinto service here in 2011. We ex-pect some very significant growth,but it is kind of a smaller overall tar-get market because it is refuse-fo-cused and it’s much earlier in themarket development cycle.

F&FST: And the series hydraulic?Where do you see that going?SD: The series hydraulic, at this pointin time, is still what we would call ina technology and market study, sowe’ve put prototype vehicles to-gether, we’re understanding the tech-

nology, we’re understanding the rel-ative costs to develop and to manu-facture, and we’re looking at a varietyof applications, both on highway andoff highway.

F&FST: Can you say how many peo-ple work on hybrids at Eaton?SD: Well, I would say roughly some-where between 100 and 150 dedi-cated, and then we’ve got quite avariety of matrixed support folks whoare involved in the hybrid businessfrom field sales and service to accountreps at all kinds of customers, andfolks in manufacturing plants and lo-gistics. That’s one of the advantageswe bring as part of a larger commer-cial vehicle enterprise. We can lever-age those resources in the companyto improve the value that we’re de-livering to our customers and to themarket.

F&FST: How important is hybridtechnology is to Eaton as a whole?SD: We’re putting a huge emphasison hybrids in terms of future growthand in terms of doing the right thingfrom an ethical and an environmen-tal perspective. It is the only productline that’s reporting to the presidentof [Eaton’s] vehicle group.

F&FST: At what rate is hybrid demandgrowing?

SD: Over the past three years, we’vegrown the business here in NorthAmerica probably pretty close tosomewhere between 50 and 100%each and every year. Five years fromnow, we expect it to be a very mate-rial portion of the vehicle group’s rev-enues.

F&FST: What about your relation-ships with suppliers? SD: We have a clear strategy to main-tain our differentiated position as asystem integrator. It’s very importantfor us to stay on the leading edge ofenergy storage technology, motortechnology, pump motor technologyon the hydraulic side. We have a strat-egy to expand our supply base, tapinto the highest value, best perform-ing, lowest cost versions. That’s howwe can continue to drive improvedfunctionality of the system and lowercost, and hence much higher adop-tion. This is true of batteries, electricmotors, and hydraulic pumps, andhydraulic accumulators. Over thenext 24 months, we’re going to seemore movement on the batteries andthe electric motors than on the hy-draulic components because of thescale of activity, the scale of invest-ment that’s been going on on a globalbasis. But strategically, it’s the sameapproach. It’s the same strategy todrive cost out of the supply chain.

With more than a thousand heavy duty hybrid vehiclesmanufactured by customer Daimler Trucks of North Amer-ica (Freightliner) alone, drive supplier Eaton is the vol-ume leader in heavy duty hybrids, offering both electric

and hydraulic hybrid variants. Eaton hybrids have loggedmore than 100 million miles. Here’s how Eaton HybridPower Systems Division business development direc-tor Seth Deutsch sees the burgeoning field. Booth 4369.

Seth Deutsch of Eaton

Eaton Wants to Stay the Heavy Hybrid Drive Leader


Watch for the Eaton (Booth 4369) and its partners EPRI (the ElectricPower Research Institute), Southern California Edison and Ford todetail their $45.4 million ARRA plan to deploy some 378 plug-in hy-brid electric versions of the Ford F-550 – among some 50 fleets – asutility trouble trucks beginning late in 2011.

“It’s a substantal variant,” says Eaton’s Seth Deutsch,” but an-swers the global call for call for more grid connectivity for vehicles.

“We’re using an A123 lithium ion-based battery pack and it’s goingto have energy storage of about 23 kilowatt hours,” Deutsch says.

“It has to deliver a minimum of 10 miles of electric-only operation.”

Eaton’s Plug-In Hybrids Project

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pumps and plumbing, associated electroniccomponents, chasis-mounted high-pressure“accumulator” for serving fuel to the system’sHigh Pressure Direct Injectors for the GX en-gine – a 15-liter Cummins ISX modified to runprimarily on natural gas with a small amountof pilot diesel – the liquid spark. At cruise, theengine runs mostly on natural gas. The West-port HD for 2010 has SCR-selective catalyticreduction to meet NOx emission limits. Theadd-on serves to reduce overall engine effi-

ciency, Westport says, as it allows the engineto run hotter.

Westport Innovations noted in announcingthe deal for the 48 LNG Kenworths that “UPSwill now boast a fleet of more than 1,100 nat-ural gas trucks including [CNG] delivery ve-hicles powered by Cummins Westport engines.

The Kenworth tractors will use a new LNGfueling station in Las Vegas now being built byClean Energy Fuels (Booth 5356) and its newNorthStar subsidiary.

Canada’s Westport Innovations and its CumminsWestport affiliate (a 50:50 joint venture formed in2001) currently dominate the natural gas fueled truckand bus markets in North America – and both are ex-hibiting at WTS 2011.

Cummins Westport (Booth 609) supplies Cumminsengines modified for spark ignition. The firm offersa family of engines around the world, including atleast one LPG-propane offering, but in North Amer-ica offers only the 8.9-liter ISL G , which is fully U.S.EPA- and California-certified for 2010 without thecostly exhaust aftertreatment necessary for diesels.

The ISL G can be seen on the CNG-fueledFreightliner Business Class M2 at Booth 3851.

The ISL G also powers 19 Kenworth T440 dumptrucks just purchased by the Indiana Department ofTransportation (more INDOT on page 17). The newCNG-fueled T440s will used in the Indianapolis area,where CNG fueling is available.

The company is working on an 11.9-liter version basedon the new diesel offering from Cummins and, of moreinterest to work truck operators, a 6.7-liter variant.

Westport Innovations (Booth 5257) announced lastmonth that UPS is buying 48 over-the-road Kenworthtractors with the Westport HD liquefied natural gasfuel system, which includes the GX engine, a 15-literCummins ISX modified to run primarily on methanewith diesel as a starting aid, or “liquid spark plug.”

The Westport HD includes LNG storage tank,

The Indiana Department of Transportation has just bought19 CNG-fueled Kenworth T440 dump trucks – they will beused for snow-plowing too.

Pioneering ISL G-powered truck in New York City.

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You’ve probably heard of Gunk andLiquid Wrench but you might notknow about the bio-based SafeCareand EnviroLogic brand variants onshow here at Booth 5368.

“Gunk Powered by SafeCare” prod-ucts include Truck and EquipmentWash, Heavy Duty Degreaser, Uni-versal Parts Washing Fluid, and a Gen-eral Purpose Cleaner and Degreaser.The “Liquid Wrench Powered by En-viroLogic” line features PenetratingOil, Jack Oil, Aerial Lift Fluid, andMobile Equipment Hydraulic Fluid.

The non-hazardous formulas are thefirst since 86-year-old, North Car-

olina-based Radiator Specialty Com-pany pledged last year to provide amore environmentally friendly prod-uct line. Liquid Wrench and Gunk areRSC Chemical Solutions divisionbrands.

“RSC Bio Solutions is committed to producing bio-based cleaners, degreasers and lubricants that providenon-hazardous alternatives for appli-cations where both high performanceand safety are essential,” business development VP Mike Guggenheimersaid in a release.

“These new products increase safetyand efficiency for our customers be-

cause if there is an accidentalspill in the workplace, no harmwill be done to their employ-ees or to the environment.”

Austin-based Energy Xtreme is promoting its new U36 Crossover as a “mildhybrid” at Booth 5469, stating that the product “is providing reliable, emission-free energy to power the hydraulic lifts of bucket trucks that are commonly usedby municipal, telecom, cable and utility fleets to repair electricity and phonelines, trim trees or rescue the occasional cat.” U36 doesn’t affect a vehicle’s

propulsion driveline but it allows operators to sharply reduce engineidling at jobsites, reducing fuel use and pollution.

“Bucket trucks and similar utility ve-hicles have different demands than thetypical truck because they often sit inone spot and run equipment for ex-

tended periods of time while repair crews are at work,” product developmentVP Ross Johnson says in a release. “Our U36 Crossover has a smaller footprint,weighs less than 750 pounds and provides more power than other products onthe market.”

“Besides the significant cost savings and emission reduction we achieve utilizing Energy Xtreme’s Utility Series, the weight reduction alone is enoughto justify the conversion of our equipment,” Richard Malish of Centerpoint Energy says in Energy Xtreme’s announcement. “The Utility Series reducesour payload by 35% and eliminates our weekly maintenance routine to upkeepour batteries and service generators.”

Where does the electricity come from? A rechargeable unit dubbed Power-Cell that Energy Xtreme says was developed for the Pentagon. Is it a battery?“The public perception of battery is very different from what PowerCell actu-ally is,” says Energy Xtreme marketing director Julie Hill. Ultracapacitor? “It’sa meeting of the two,” she says, further describing PowerCell as a “dry tech-nology,” power-dense, non-hazardous and recyclable. The PowerCell-poweredU36 can be factory integrated onto new vehicles or retrofitted.

It’s Official: BAF Is a Ford QVM The BAF Technologies unit of Clean Energy Fuels has beendesignated as a Qualified Vehicle Modifier of gaseous-fueled vehicles by Ford (Booth 3431). The QVM approvalprocess involves Ford scrutiny of the af-termarket vendor’s design, manufacturingand quality control processes. “In-depthevaluations by Ford include crash testing,demonstrated commitment to continuousquality improvement, and reviews of representative vehiclesand customer support systems,” Clean Energy-BAF said.BAF’s upfitting capabilities include aftermarket compressednatural gas (CNG) conversions of Ford-manufactured vans,cutaway shuttles, taxis, pick-ups and light-duty trucks. BAF-converted vehicles are on show by Knapheide (3741) andAltec (4875) here too.

Hyva for Cleaner HydraulicsHyva (USA) is promoting lightweight hydraulic equipmentfor “lifting, loading, stacking and tipping” at Booth 5453 inthe Calstart Pavilion. The firm, founded in The Nether-lands in 1979, says it’s the leading global provider of inno-vative and highly efficient transport solutions for thecommercial vehicle and environmental services providersindustry.” According to sales chief James Hunt, “We offerweight-savings and we’re cleaner. We use less hydraulic oil

and we createless run time onthe pump. Inaddition tousing a bit lessenergy, we’re

also less apt to contaminate. We don’t have the oil drippingdown the front of the cylinder.”

CNG Kenworth T440s for Alagasco“Alagasco is walking the walk when it comes to CNG,” saysKenworth. The 160-year-old utility, which has grown froma gas street lamp outfit to Alabama’s largest distributor of nat-ural gas, has added seven compressed natural gas KenworthT440s. Alagasco’s T440s feature the ISL G engine from Cum-mins Westport (Booth 609), with maintenance-free, three-waycatalyst. The engine is 2010 EPA- and California-compliantwith neither SCR nor DPF (selective catalytic reduction/diesel particulate filter). Kenworth has brought two hybridelectric T370 hybrid tractors this week, one for Booth 3031and one for the ride-and-drive Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. They have hybrid drives by Eaton (Booth 4369).

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