The Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp S2G was shown as a prototype chassis at the Work Truck Show last year; this year it’s a full blown delivery vehicle, outfitted with an 8.0-liter GM engine – modi-fied by Power Integration for dedicated propane autogas operation – by Signature Truck Systems of Clio, Mich. It’s being shown by the Propane Education & Research

Council – which helped pay for development of the truck – at Booth 5691. FCCC is at Booth 4559. Power Integra-tion is at Booth 2453. New Eagle (5961) helped with the engine controls.

Isuzu Commercial Truck of North America is giving away Schwan’s ice cream from a propane-powered Schwan Foods truck at Booth 4747. Schwan’s subsidiary Bi-Phase Technologies outfits the vehicles using its own system – and has done more than 5,000 of them. Beyond the ice cream, Isuzu is showing an NPR HD chassis with dedicated-compressed natural gas upfit – newly available for ship-through by Utilimaster in Charlotte, Mich., with a fuel system by Landi Renzo USA. The vehicle has twin 21-gasoline-gallon- equivalent CNG fuel tanks for a 42-GGE total.

BAF founder and elder statesman Bill Calvert and col-leagues in a CNG-gasoline bi-fuel F-250 on display by Ford (Booth 3139). Note that the bed is fully available – the truck has been engineered for the compressed natural gas fuel tank to fit underneath, even with the vehicle’s factory gasoline tank left in place. With Mr. Calvert are BAF’s Lauanna Recker and Eme Porlai. BAF is in bed with Utilimaster too on Ford’s B-59 strip chassis. —Page 9

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Allison Hybrid Truck DriveAllison Transmission has launched its H 3000 drivetrain for trucks. —Page 5

Chrysler CNG SuccessRam 2500 CNG model was launched here last year; the first of 242 bi-fuel trucks for the State of Oklahoma was delivered yesterday. —Page 6

Bauer Gets You StartedVirginia-based Compressor manufacturer has a range of self-contained units that allow even small fleets to get started with their own CNG fueling. —Page 7

3M’s New CNG TankMaterials technology enables a fuel cylinder that’s lighter and cheaper and as such may help pave the way to greater market acceptance of natural gas vehicles. —Page 13

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Green Truck Summit keynote speaker and Altec chairman and CEO Lee Styslinger made the rounds of the 2013 Work Truck Show with Pat Davis, manager of the Vehicle Technologies in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy office, and Ron Schoon, executive manager for partnership development with DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.

National Truck Equipment Association gov-ernment activities director Mike Kastner was among the tour guides.

The party stopped by Altec’s Booth 5661, where product manager Mark Greer explained green initiatives including Altec’s JEMS (for job-site energy management system) aerial lift, which operates on battery power. The lifts reduce engine idling, which saves fuel and reduces emis-sions while making for a quieter, more congenial and safer work site.

Alabama-based Altec last year opened a

42,000-square-foot assembly facility in Dixon, Calif. at the behest of the Pacific Gas & Elec-tric utility, a key customer. PG&E said just last month that it will add 127 bucket trucks with battery-powered Altec aerial lifts during 2013, augmenting 320 in service. “By 2017, the util-ity plans to have over 700 e-WIMS trucks in its fleet,” said PG&E transportation services director Dave Meisel.

The Altec JEMS reduces idling and provides engine-off power for tools, but doesn’t affect how a truck drives. “We focus on both,” said Odyne president Joe Dalum, who described his com-pany’s plug-in hybrid electric drivelines for trucks.

Odyne (Booth 5566) uses equip-ment from Allison (which Dalum said invested in Odyne this past June) and lithium batteries from Johnson Con-trols. A 28-kilowatt-hour battery pack can put out 10 kilowatts or even 14 kilowatts of export electricity, Dalum said, enough to power compressors for jackhammers.

The power takeoff feature is pow-erful enough that truck outfitters can eliminate a conventional generator entirely. “You can remove an engine and all the maintenance associated with it by using this battery system,” Dalum said.

Odyne systems are available for both new vehicles and retrofit.

On to the big Freightliner-Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp display (4559/4659), where Daimler Trucks North America president Rich-ard Saward told the DoE officials, “No matter

what the application, we think natural gas has a fit.” Among the vehicles shown for the first time here was a dedicated-CNG Freightliner M2 112 outfitted with a Johnston sweeper body. Timco and Elgin use the chassis for sweepers too.

The DoE party got a preview of Ford’s announcement of new Transit cab and cutaway vehicles, all to have alternative fuel capability. “We’ve got eight different vehicle platforms that we can modify,” said Ford alternative fuels strategist Jon Coleman. “It doesn’t matter what alternative fuel the customer is interested in,” he said. “We have a van for him.”

GM alternate energy sales director Mark

Karney explained about GM’s dedicated-CNG vans and CNG-gasoline bi-fuel pickups, for which a new body style will be available in the coming weeks. Knapheide VP Chris Weiss explained how his firm saves weight by using advanced materials and better overall designs – with alternative fuels as an upfit option too.

Last but not least, NTEA executive director Steve Carey summed up the state of alternative fuel vehicles in March 2013: Fleet managers are asking real ROI questions about AFVs, he said, and “They’re becoming very deployable.”

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Essentially an add-on hybridization of its cur-rent fully-automatic 3000 series transmission, the new product is targeted at medium- and heavy-duty trucks in distribution, refuse, utility and shuttle applications.

Production will begin later this year, and talks are under way with OEMs and potential customers, said Laurie Tuttle, Allison hybrid programs VP. Fuel savings are expected to be 25%, she said.

The fully-automatic parallel hybrid pro-pulsion system is of the regenerative braking kinetic energy recovery type: it captures elec-tricity as the vehicle brakes, stores it in bat-teries, and then uses it to assist propulsion or power other functions.

The main components are a motor-genera-tor by Remy International (its high power-to-weight ratio HVH 4210 model), lithium ion prismatic cell batteries by Delphi Automotive

Systems, and power controllers, invert-ers and DC-to-DC converters.

The battery packs are modular, allowing an operator to choose up to four packs per vehicle to match storage capacity with spe-cific vehicle or duty cycle. “An operator doesn’t have to buy too much capacity,” Tuttle said.

All the hybridization is outside the Allison 3000 transmission, keeping down costs and complexity, she said. In the same vein, the electronic controllers and battery packs are scalable, with the former being designed for a family of hybrid transmissions with minimum development costs.

The controllers include automatic load-based shift sensing (the vehicle changes gear without dropping engine revs), and vehicle acceleration control will be offered as an option. Prognostics are also built in, helping to avoid unnecessary maintenance.

For the technically minded, the motor- generator can provide peak torque of 571 lb-ft from 0-1,300 rpm, or peak power of 134 horse-power, limited by the inverter. It is cooled by Allison’s TranSynd cooling system, which low-ers operating temperatures.

Nestled into the motor-generator is the engine-disconnect clutch. The packaging allows a power module just 11 inches long.

The batteries have an energy capacity of 1.6 kilowatt-hours per 50-kilowatt pack, and a typi-cal 100-kilowatt system will use two 50-kilowatt packs.

The new hybrid transmission can be seen on Booth 4777, and the development vehicle (a Coca-Cola truck) on Booth 5098. Motor supplier Remy is at 5453.

Allison Transmission announced its entry into the commercial hybrid truck and shuttle bus markets here yesterday with the unveiling of its hybrid-electric propulsion system.

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U.S.-China Workshop Here Today There is significant export potential in U.S. companies helping China address its chronic air pollution through cleaner vehicles, says Calstart, which last year held the first U.S.-China Clean Truck & Bus Forum in Beijing in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The second forum meeting will be in Shanghai later this year. Calstart will hold a workshop on China’s potential here today at 9.30 a.m. in Room 104. Calstart is exhibiting at Booth 5459.

BAE Adds More Hybrid DemosBAE Systems plans to add another three HybriDrive propulsion system demonstrators by the end of the year, bringing the number of vehicles under test to nine. Most interest has been shown in the parallel hybrid system for refuse collection vehicles. The electric-hybrid system uses batteries by Ener1. In January BAE signed a 20-year agreement with Caterpillar to integrate the Cat CX family

of transmissions into its HybriDrive system, and to establish an aftermarket field services model leveraging Caterpillar’s vast global service network to support the growing installed base. BAE Systems is at Booth 5571.

Ford Highlights Guide to Green Vehicles Confusion is often the norm as prospective truck buyers try to match their vehicle needs with the plethora of “Green” fuel choices now available on the market.

Now Ford Motor Co is helping them cut to the quick with a new Alternative Fuels Buyers Guide that covers Ford’s product range and vehicle usage patterns.

“It helps them determine what makes the most business sense,” says Rob Stevens, Ford’s chief engineer for commercial trucks. The new Guide – 20 pages this year – covers Ford’s gaseous-prep engines for propane and natural gas vehicles, with fleet case studies and the automaker’s growing line of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, with information about charger suppliers.

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Landi Renzo’s Everywhere Here

The largest fleet customer for Chrysler’s compressed natural gaso-line bi-fuel pickup trucks, the state of Oklahoma, took delivery yester-day of the first of 242 on order, the manufacturer said here.

The Ram 2500 CNG has now been ordered by 19 states since it was launched at the Work Truck Show just one year ago. Demand has been “fantastic, especially from fleet and commercial customers,” says Ram president & CEO Fred Diaz.

The truck was made available for retail sale two months ago.

Production of the CNG Ram began in Mexico this last Octo-ber. Chrysler notes that it is the only CNG pickup truck in North

America built on an OEM’s own production line instead of being converted by aftermarket upfitters.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been a tireless proponent of CNG, and was instrumental in the sales of CNG Rams to other states.

“Converting the state’s fleet to CNG will save taxpayers millions of dollars in fuel costs,” Gov. Fallin said. “The use of cleaner-burning CNG fuel is good for the environ-ment and promotes Oklahoma-made natural gas which in turn supports the creation of more Oklahoma jobs. Our multi-state bidding process was aimed at encouraging automakers to provide states with more affordable and more functional CNG vehicles.”

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Landi Renzo USA is the U.S. arm of Italy’s Landi Renzo, the world leader in gaseous fuel systems for light duty vehicles. A dedicated-compressed natural gas fuel system by Landi Renzo may be seen on an Isuzu NPR HD chassis at Booth 4747 – newly available for ship-through by Utilimaster in Charlotte, Mich. The vehicle has twin 21 gasoline gallon equivalent CNG fuel tanks

for a 42-GGE total. Landi systems may also

be seen on a Ford E-350 van at Leggett & Platt’s Booth 1421, on a strip chas-sis with GM engine by Green Alternative Systems (4593) on the Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp dis-play (4559), and on a Ford F-550 converted by World CNG at Caseco Manufac-turing (2215).

There is a Ford F-250 pickup with a Landi Renzo CNG-gasoline bi-fuel up- fit in the Green Truck Ride-and-Drive.

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Virginia-based Bauer Compressors is showing its Micro series for compressed natural gas vehicle fueling, noting ease of installation – Micro units can be driven by single- or three-phase power – and an affordable price: as low as $25,000.

“It’s a great compressor for fleets just transition-ing into CNG,” says Bauer business development director Paula Hebert.

The Micro series CNG system offers multi-vehicle flexibility, Bauer adds, and is suitable for both time- and fast-fill applications, with a small, convenient footprint. “This system has the high-est durability rating, with Bauer Compressor’s unmatched reliability,” the company says.

Bauer’s skid-mounted Micro units have air-cooled, pressure-lubricated, continuous-duty rated, multi-stage reciprocating compressors. They

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a new “large duty” compressor for small fleets and retail CNG outlets, repackag-ing its C28 as the C28.0 – or C28.0S with option three-pack ASMR storage tanks.

It’s “a package that will easily fit into their existing fueling station at an afford-able price,” Hebert says, with “the looks and options suitable for public fast fill appli-cations as well as private fleet applications.”

“The smaller footprint, modular attractive design, and great value is a per-fect solution for adding CNG.”

Both the Mini on show here and the new C28.0 carry a two-year parts and labor warranty.

Trillium CNG to Add 33 Fueling Stations

Trillium, a leading provider of compressed natu-ral gas fueling facilities, plans to add another 33 high-capacity facilities this year to accommodate heavy to light trucks.

They will be built in partnership with exist-ing service stations on major corridors between Michigan and Florida, New York and Missouri, and in Texas, according to senior business devel-oper April Dents.

The new stations will bring Trillium’s total of CNG fueling stations to more than 1,000 nationwide. The company, now a unit of Inte-grys Energy, delivered more than 35 million equivalent gallons of CNG last year.

Dents says the expansion of the fueling net-work isn’t any slower than expected “but any incremental growth is a success.” Trillium, she adds, continues to sign up more fleet operators as it adds more stations, but expansion of the indus-try is awaiting a number of new CNG-powered engines that are coming closer to market.

“It’s really exciting, waiting for this perfect storm as everything comes together at the right time,” she says. Trillium CNG is at Booth 5660.

Trillium has long experience in heavy duty CNG fueling installations.

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Major news at yesterday’s show was the order by Dish Network for 200 Ford F-250 vans converted to dedi-cated propane operation by Roush CleanTech.

The order wasn’t a clear-cut win. It took Dish more than a year to inves-tigate all the alternative fuel options before settling on Roush and propane, said Abe Stephenson, fleet and admin-istration manager at Dish Network. “It was very important to us not to make sacrifices in day-to-day operations with any alternate fuel strategy,” he said.

“It was important that we could source fuel anywhere in the U.S., and propane has 2,500-plus points of distribution around the country; it was important to buy American; and it was important to save money.”

Dish next compared the mileage range of the propane F-250 with the range requirements of its 30 offices, and found that 10 locations were a good fit. The firm had room in their parking lots to install propane tanks so the vans could fill

up on site. The first F-250s will begin operations from this summer onwards at two locations each in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta.

Looking ahead, Stephenson said Ford’s intro-duction of a new Transit next year could make 10 more Dish offices eligible for propane-powered vehicles. Roush CleanTech is at Booth 5099.

Roush also announced availability of pro-pane-powered Ford F-550 and Ford F-59 chas-sis step van upfits in partnership with Indiana’s Green Alternative Systems (Booth 4593).

The first vehicles will be available in April. The F-59 will cost $17,900, and the F-550 is priced at $21,900. More than 10 orders had already been placed before the unveiling.

“This is a huge opportunity for this market,” said Todd Mouw, Roush VP of sales and market-ing. “An operator can save $40,000 on fuel over the life of the vehicle.”

The F-59 will start with the 2013 model year, and will require Ford gaseous prep of its 6.8-liter V-10 gasoline engine.

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When it comes to solutions, New Eagle is play-ing an increasing role in helping others develop gaseous fuel engines.

The company is best described as a product distributor for programmable electronic, hydrau-lic and fuel controls, with a design engineering team that develops software to make them work. Its business is split 40% electric hybrids, 20% mobile hydraulics and 40% alternative fuels, says president Rich Swortzel. The chief reason for its success is a rapid prototyping software tool called MotoHawk Toolchain that was developed some 15 years ago by Swortzel and was subsequently bought by Woodward Governor.

“We help other people build conversion kits,” says Swortzel, “and often supply the parts.”

Its latest achievement was to develop the con-trol system on a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) engine for a Powertrain Integration 8.0-liter 8-cylinder engine (Booth 2453) that uses Clean-Fuels USA for the traditional gasoline fuel sys-tem. New Eagle also provided torque security for electronic throttle control. The first production application is the Freightliner Custom Chas-sis Corp school bus and medium duty delivery vehicles. New Eagle is at Booth 5961.

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BAF and Utilimaster are announcing a preferred and exclusive installer agree-ment by which Utilimaster will handle upfits of Ford F-59 walk-in van strip chassis with natural gas fuel systems from BAF. The two companies are showing a converted vehicle in the Ford Commercial Truck area (Booth 3139). The vehicle has already achieved both U.S. EPA and California Air Resources Board certifications.

Under the agreement, Utilimaster “is appointed the exclusive and preferred installer of the BAF Compressed Natural Gas system on the Ford F- 59 walk-in van stripped chassis…

“This partnership builds on the Utilimaster strategic vision of offering a full portfolio of alter-nate fuel and field service solutions,” states a joint announcement to be released today.

“Alliances with companies like BAF Technolo-gies provide Utilimaster clients with a professional partnership of project management, engineering and fleet solutions while positioning Utilimaster for long term growth,” said Utilimaster president John Forbes. “The agreement further extends our commitment to offer green solutions that are field-proven and deliver a strong return on investment.”

CNG vehicles provide a 65% fuel savings. Some 90% of the CNG is produced domestically.

Utilimaster is promoting “a proprietary alterna-tive fuels program offering that assesses customer needs, formulates the best solution, develops the business case, manages the deployment project plan, and provides product training/support.

“Customers also have the option of calling upon the Utilimaster fleet solutions organization to implement additional programs – at any loca-tion – that have proven to be best practices in the areas of improved driver productivity, safety, and reduction of cost of operation.”

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BAF is a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels.

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Get used to Hexagon Lincoln, as parent Hexagon Composites in Norway has decided on a re-brand across the corporation. Lincoln – we mean Hexagon Lincoln, which man-ufactures all-composite Type IV com-pressed natural gas fuel cylinders in Lincoln, Neb. – is at Booth 5581.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities organization is celebrating its 20th anniver-sary this year, and may be found at Booth 3605 at Work Truck 2013. Watch for even more 20th anniversary at ACT Expo, the Alternative Clean Transportation Exposition in Washing-ton, D.C. June 24-27. —See Page 14

Clean Cities: 20 Years!

The Alternative Fuels Data Center began in 1991, a few years before Clean Cities launched, with just a single computer at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (Photo by NREL)

An all-electric truck by Smith operated by National Clean Fleets Partner Staples at the 2011 Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)

Store manager Kyle Krause (left) and Menards spokesman Jeff Abbott (right) cut the ribbon on a newly opened propane fueling station at the Menards store in Hodgkins, Ill, in December, 2012. The station was part of a Clean Cities Recovery Act project supported by the City of Chicago, Department of the Environment. (Photo by Greg Zilberfarb, The Sales Network)

2011 Clean Cities Hall of Fame inductees Utah Clean Cities executive director Robin Erickson (middle left) and Twin Cities Clean Cities coordinator Lisa Thurstin (far right) accept their awards with Clean Cities regional manager Kay Kelly (far left) and National Clean Cities director Dennis Smith (middle right) at the Clean Cities Stakeholder Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)

A CNG-fueled Freightliner at the 2011 Clean Cities Stakeholder Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)

Former Clean Cities director Shelley Launey with George Wendt, aka Norm, at Clean Cities 2004 in Fort Lauderdale (logo below).

At the U.S. Department of Energy display at WTS 2013 are Clean Cities director Dennis Smith, DoE-EERE vehicle technologies chief Pat Davis, Altec chairman and CEO (and Green Truck Summit 2013 keynoter) Lee Styslinger, National Renewable Energy Lab partnership development manager Ron Schoon, and Clean Cities vehicle technologies deployment manager Mark Smith.

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The firm’s Westport WiNG Power System equipment is installed at WKIC, the Westport Kentucky Integration Center, located near Ford’s manufacturing plant in Louisville for easy ship-through.

Plans for the larger Fords were announced in December following word earlier in 2012 that the light duty vehicle arm of Westport Innova-tions would offer bi-fuel versions of F-250 and F-350 vehicles.

Westport’s Ford F-450 is being shown for the first time here – at both Westport’s Booth 5199 and by Ford Commercial Truck at Booth 3139.

Westport notes that WKIC is a Ford-audited, Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) facility, and that the new F-450 and F-550 trucks “have undergone the same rigorous testing for safety and durability used by Ford for all its original equipment manufacturer products... The 2013 F-450 and F-550 trucks will use the same inte-grated transportation system as other Westport powered Ford products to reduce delivery costs

to the customer.”The trucks have

Ford’s 6.8-liter V-10 engine affording a combined range of approximately 650 miles with maximum compressed natural gas capacity of 42 GGEs (gasoline gallon equivalents) and a standard 40-gallon gasoline tank. They are delivered “key-READY,” Westport says, with a warranty that matches Ford’s.

“The expansion of our product line builds upon our proven technology of the Westport WiNG Power System and extends our prod-uct availability to a different end user,” said Westport LD managing director and VP John Lapetz. “With a higher degree of application flexibility and increased gross vehicle weight, the Ford F-450 and F-550 Super Duty trucks allow us to grow a solid footprint with custom-ers who were not serviced with the Ford F-250 and F-350 CNG bi-fuel trucks.”

The larger Fords are said to be ideal for fleets in the natural resource industries, construction, delivery, and public utilities, as well as for gov-ernment and transit operators. Fleets get to use a cleaner, domestic fuel with savings between 30 to 60% and “payback demonstrated in as little as two years.”

Westport works with service body companies in Louisville to outfit the bi-fuel trucks for spe-cific missions: “Many standard configurations exist for bodies with a minimum of 84-inch CA in combination with a tank pack. Custom bi-fuel configurations can be engineered for virtually any second-unit body with a minimum order of 10 units,” said senior marketing director John Howell.

Westport CNG upfits start at $9,500.

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Westport LD will begin taking orders on April 1 for its bi-fuel CNG-gasoline conversions of Ford F-450 and F-550 Super Duty Chassis Cab trucks.

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat… OK, no heat. But the snow stopped in the morning and the plowmen did their job, and while the weather was brisk, the clean fuel and advanced technology vehicles were there in force yesterday for the Work Truck Show

2013 Green Truck Ride-and-Drive. Hybrids and natural gas and propane and more. Miss it? The ride-and-drive happens again today from noon until 4:40pm.

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Frank Johnson and Larry Zepp with Crosspoint Kinetics shuttle.

Brian Sutherland with CNG-fueled Freightliner dump truck.

Jamie Mitchell of Impco Automotive and Dave Bary of Isuzu NPR-HD converted to CNG.

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3M – you know they make more than Scotch tape and Post-Its – is here promoting a new compressed natural gas fuel cylinder. 3M has applied proprietary materials technology making for a lighter – and cheaper – fuel container for natural gas vehicles.

3M said last month that it’s successfully com-pleted the American National Standards Insti-tute certification process (ANSI NGV2-2007) for its new CNG tank.

It’s a Type IV cylinder – made with carbon fiber over a plastic liner – with the carbon fiber consolidated using a matrix resin material with nanosilica particles to enhance the properties of the costly carbon. The tanks can thus be made with less carbon fiber, for less money.

“The fuel tank is the most expensive com-ponent to a CNG conversion,” says Kelly Mul-doon, director of business development at Ven-churs Vehicle Systems. With 3M’s new tank, she says, “we’re hoping to cut our costs and ultimately the price of our conversions, making CNG powered vehicles a more viable option for fleet and retail customers alike.”

Venchurs is one of five NGV upfitters 3M has authorized to use the new tank, at Booth 645. Venchurs used a prototype 3M tank to convert a Ford F-250 for display at 3M’s Transportation Summit in Michigan this past autumn.

3M itself is showing the new nanoparticle CNG tank at Booth 5658.

The 21.5- by 60-inch tank is designed for light- and medium-duty pick-up trucks and cor-porate fleet vehicles. It can hold 23.5 GGEs – gasoline gallon equivalents, 3M says. More sizes are planned.

“We are going to be using it in all pickup truck conversions going forward when the application uses a 21.5- by 60-inch tank,” says sales VP Joshua Hosford of Seattle-based World CNG, another 3M-designated upfitter.

“The 3M product has more capacity and weighs less than some other Type IV tanks,” Hosford told ShowTimes affiliate Fleets & Fuels.

3M’s new product “is a no-brainer,” says VP Jim O’Donnell of Alternative Fuel Solutions, another 3M designee. He cites cost and usable gasoline gallon equivalent advantages, plus the comfort of having a company the size of 3M behind the product. AFS, of Mahaffey, Pa. has

done Ford and GM vehicle upfits using Altech-Eco, Impco Automotive (Booth 5681), NatGasCar and other fuel systems.

“The 3M tank is less expensive than anybody else out there with a comparable tank,” says Bry Granger of AVS, Alternative Vehicle Solutions in Murray, Utah. “It can be up to $500 [per cyl-inder] cheaper, depending on volume,” he told Fleets & Fuels. “It is also lighter.”

“With a tank that will help provide more range and more payload capacity at less expense, CNG vehicles are now an even more attractive alternative for fleet and individual retail custom-ers alike,” 3M industrial adhesive and tapes divi-sion VP Mike Roman said in the manufacturer’s tank certification announcement.

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Owners of 2007 to 2013 Ford E-series trucks who feel they missed out on hybrids will get another chance: for $10,000 they can convert their vehicles with a plug-and-play kit from Echo Automotive. Fuel savings of 25-50% will mean a payback in three to four years, Echo said here yesterday in unveiling its concept at Booth 633.

Echo is adding a 40-horsepower induction motor between the transmission and driveshaft, hybrid electric controls, an air-cooled inverter, and a lithium ion battery pack in place of the underfloor spare wheel. Plug-in recharging is an option. The kit adds 500 pounds to the vehicle’s weight. The kit can be installed by any competent mechanic, and doesn’t involve removing the engine, said Echo president and chairman Jason Plotke.

A demo vehicle with the EchoDrive is partici-pating in the Ride-and Drive here. Customers are signing up for pilot vehicles, and production of kits

should begin in early 2014. Echo differs in that most of its components are off-the-shelf.

Plotke said that although Echo uses the same facilities in Anderson, Ind., and some expertise left over from Bright Automotive, a hybrid auto company that went bankrupt early last year, there is no connection whatsoever between Bright and Echo Automotive.

“The facilities were available, as was some tech-nical expertise.

“That’s it,” Plotke said.

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The Westport LD unit of Westport Innovations, which is promoting its Westport WiNG bi-fuel CNG-gasoline upfits at Booth 5199, is hosting a Natural Gas Now mini-conference on March 19 – just prior to MATS, the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.

“Learn from both customers and suppliers why the range of options – from pick-up trucks to locomotives – and benefits of natural gas are greater than ever before,” Westport says.

Natural Gas Now will be held at WKIC, the Westport Kentucky Integration Center, where the company converts Ford F-250 through F-550 trucks for compressed natu-ral gas operation. WKIC is adjacent to Ford’s Louisville assembly plant, making for easy ship-through of the Westport NGVs.

The Mid-America Trucking Show takes place March 21-23 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.

Rates are low and coverage is broad at ACT Expo 2013 in Washington in June. The dates are June 24-27 for the 2013 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo, being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and Embassy Suites in Washington D.C.

It’s the third year for ACT Expo, which is organized by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA). The meeting coincides this year with the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program.

“With more than 3,000 registrants for ACT Expo 2012, the event has emerged as the world’s pre-eminent alterna-tive fuels confer-ence and exposition,” says Erik Neandross, CEO at GNA. “With the show moving to Washington D.C. this year, the momentum is even stronger.

“Don’t miss it.”GNA has released the ACT Expo 2013

conference agenda, comprising a compel-ling program for transportation profes-sionals looking to invest in alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies.

Both vendors and fleet colleagues will dis-cuss how best to successfully navigate the transition to clean alternative fuels.

GNA notes too that its conference is cost-competitive, “with rates at half the cost of many smaller industry con-ferences.” Value registration fees valid through April 30 include just $575 for the full conference – and $225 for fleets.

Admission to the ACT Expo exhibition hall June 26-27 is free.

“ACT Expo is unrivaled in its ability to provide strong educational content to transportation professionals that are look-

ing to make invest-ments in alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technolo-gies, GNA says. The just-released agenda

has been crafted over several months with ongoing input from a High-Volume Fleet Planning Committee, a Clean Cities Planning Committee, and alternative fuel industry associations.

Fleets & Fuels will join forces with Convention and Tradeshow News to pub-lish two live daily Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes news magazines at ACT Expo 2013 too. (www.actexpo.com)

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More than 50 industry stakehold-ers convened in Pasadena, Calif. last month for the kick-off meeting of CTAG, Calstart’s new Commercial Truck Action Group. The High-Efficiency Truck Users Forum gath-ering marked a turning point in the HTUF program. The focus is on high-efficiency technologies and top cross-cutting issues versus an initial singular focus on hybrid trucks.

Calstart’s aims for the fleets, vehicle OEMs, suppliers, military, policy-makers and other stakehold-ers who participated in the Pasa-dena meeting are•  to facilitate collaborative, action-oriented, enduring partnerships;•  to forge a long-term relation-ship to evaluate and improve trucks and other commercial vehicles to speed commercialization of high-

efficiency technologies; •  to rely on input and feedback between the HTUF program and

industry sponsors to help shape the goals and priorities of high-efficiency, cross-cutting collaborations.

Attendees received high level overviews about Calstart as a whole from senior VP Bill Van Amburg, and about HTUF’s new direction from Calstart VP and HTUF direc-tor Kevin Beaty. Presentations and other materials are available via the Calstart website (www.calstart.org).

Stakeholders provided valuable feedback as they discussed and then voted on what they perceived to be the top three technologies with the most potential for efficien-cies. The list included combined alternative fuel and hybrid system (CNG/LNG/Biofuel/LPG), hybrid electric, and range-extended elec-tric vehicles and plug-ins. The top cross-cutting issues were specialty

engine certification, reduction of battery life-cycle costs, and expan-sion of state voucher incentive programs.

Calstart is looking for indus-try engagement to mobilize its expanded focus on high-efficiency vehicles. Activities you can expect to hear more about over the next year include•  highly-targeted policy initiatives; •  technology deployment and validation; •  action-oriented working groups (based on direction being set by CTAG and a new Military Truck Action Group); •  regional and national meetings with unique Ride-and-Drive events.

Anyone interested in being part of the CTAG is welcome, Calstart says. Calstart is at Booth 5459.

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