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CLEAN CITIES TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2006
No more Ford? Life goes on. SULEV certification earned by BAF Technologies means that Crown Victoria sedans with4.6 liter engines converted to dedicated CNG operation are eligible for grants offsetting their $10,000-plus price pre-mium. More than 300 have been sold in California. Celebrating here are BAF sales VP Bill Calvert, president John Bacon,ace NGV salesman Clark Cooper of Wondries Ford in Los Angeles, and Mark Riley and Dave Aasheim of Clean Energy,who hope to provide fuel for more BAF converted vehicles in New York and in Dallas, respectively. —See Page 9
Schwarzennegger may have putmuscle in California’s hydrogeneffort, but it will take long-distanceendurance to make a radical newzero emission (let’s not forget that)market happen. Honda’s bring-ing some sweet technology to thefuel cell party too. —See Page 7
Versatile-Fuel Hybrid BusInnovation Drive takes a ‘plug-and-play’path to a new transit vehicle. —See Page 5
Kraus Back to the U.S.Winnipeg-based gaseous fuel specialistthinks the time is right for a return to theU.S. market. —See Page 5
AFV Solutions DebutsGroscost’s Phoenix-based AFV Solutionsdebuts here with a strategy encompassingalternative fuels from propane throughCNG, and on up to hydrogen. —See Page 8
Key CARB Nod for the ISXWestport Innovations can begin selling itsbig diesel cycle engine that runs mostly onnatural gas. —See Page 12
Battery Game-Changer?Feel Good’s got one lined up, maybe. Butnew NEVs with made-in-France bodies aredefinite for this year. —See Page 13
Marathon Man isHigh on Hydrogen
“Today’s gas prices are nothing lessthan a call to action to wean ourselvesfrom oil,” proclaimed Sen. John Mc-Cain (R-Ariz.) at yesterday’s openingplenary session here at Clean Cities.
McCain reiterated his support of anincrease in CAFE mileage standardsas well as his opposition to Arcticdrilling and government subsidies forethanol. E85, he said, can and shouldstand on its own as a good alternativeand supplement to gasoline.
“But ethanol is not the beginning orthe end of our solution,” the senatorsaid, mentioning other alt fuels likeCNG and biomethane and the needto curb emissions that contribute toglobal warming.
Lamenting his two attempts withSen. Joe Lieberman to pass cap-and-trade legislation in Washington, hesaid cities and states are taking the lead.
“If 227 mayors can do it, why can’t100 U.S. senators?”
McCain Calls for Alt Fuels Action
Garrett Beauregard (left) and VP Kevin Morrow ofeTec with one of the Chevy trucks they’re convertingto hydrogen for Canada’s IWHUP. They’ve got a newdeal to develop a heavy-duty hydrogen-CNG blendingdispenser with Clean Energy too. —See Page 14
Clean Cities Tuesday Schedule — Page 15
Steve Ellis ofAmerican Honda.
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Dear Clean Cities Attendee,
Today, May 9, is “Fleet Day” at theCongress. Thanks to a hefty spon-sorship from Arizona based AFVSolutions, the Alternative Fuel Ve-hicle Institute (AFVI) extensivelyresearched and then targetedfleets who we thought our indus-try partners would like as cus-tomers. As a result, our first annual“Focus on Fleets” effort has re-sulted in a 600% increase in fleetattendance over any previous year.
Why does it matter? As the al-ternative fuel market matures, wehave the luxury of focusing onsales vs. policy. The convergenceof sky high oil prices and the passage of the 2005 En-ergy Bill mean the vehicles, fuels and technologies thatare available, are also competitive in the marketplace.Several of today’s sessions, in fact, focus on the manyareas where we can make a viable business case for al-ternative fuels.
An array of alternative fuels and vehicles will coexistin the marketplace into the foreseeable future and it’soften confusing. What is the truth about the energy con-
tent of ethanol? How is thebiodiesel industry working toguarantee that standards are beingmet? How robust is the market forsmall volume manufacturers andis that a new pathway? Are therenew breakthroughs in fueling in-frastructure for natural gas? Whenwill fuel cell vehicles and plug-inhybrids be in the marketplace?Understanding vehicle availabil-ity and fueling infrastructure iscritical for sound decision-mak-ing. All of this can be found as partof fleet day.
As you attend sessions and par-ticipate in the ride-and-drive thisafternoon, you’ll see fleet repre-
sentatives from the U.S. Marines and Air Force, utili-ties, airports, healthcare, the food industry, taxis, transitagencies, school districts, retailers, and national parks.You’ll also see people from government, industry, CleanCities coordinators, and service providers who are allhere to help fuel economic solutions through the use ofalternative fuels and advanced technologies.
On a lighter note, we have evidence that hard work-ing fleet professionals can also play. Tonight, John Deere
and PG&E present an unforgettableclosing reception featuring one of ourown. Bill Ball is the TransportationDirector for the Tucson UnifiedSchool District and is a big fan of al-ternative fuels. He still found timeto form “Still Cruisin,” the top Clas-sic Rock band in the southern Ari-zona convention circuit. His band hasopened for Three Dog Night, PaulRevere and the Raiders, The Turtles,and The Grass Roots. Big fans ofAlice Cooper, Still Cruisin is ourheadliner entertainment tonight atCoopers’town. Rumor has it that hehas penned and will debut what is des-tined to become an alternative fuelrock ‘n roll hit song.
Don’t miss it!Sincerely,
Annalloyd Thomason Executive Director, AFVI
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Dennis Smith has only been act-ing manager of National CleanCities for a month, but he he’sforming a master plan and excitedabout the future.
“A lot of people think this stuffis new, but we’ve been doing itsince 1993. The timing [for altfuels] is better than ever,” he toldShowTimes yesterday.
Smith was active in the first
Clean Cities coalition, Atlanta, be-fore joining DoE seven years ago,so he knows the industry and itsstakeholders.
He also understands the multi-ple technologies, beyond alt fuels,under development in Freedom-Car’s fuels group, where CleanCities is now housed. Technologydeployment and communicationsare Clean Cities’ primary roles.
Smith plans to establish a co-ordinators council of 12—two co-ordinators from each Clean Citiesregion—to better represent thediverse views and needs of thenow 90 coalitions nationwide.
Coordinators won kudos at yes-terday’s luncheon. Linda Urata,San Joaquin Clean Cities Coali-tion, won the 2006 CoordinatorLeadership Award.
Kellie Walsh of the Central In-diana Clean Cities Alliance wonthe 2005 Coordinator ChoiceAward and Jonathan Overly of theEast Tennessee Clean Fuels Coali-tion won the 2006 Coordinator ofthe Year Award.
Kimberly Taylor with AFVI wona special Clean Cities LifetimeAchievement Award. She’s al-ready working on next year’smeeting... Come to the JohnDeere-Pacific Gas & Electric clos-ing reception tonight and learnwhere it will be!
Annalloyd Thomason
Meet Dennis Smith—the Man with a Plan
Dennis Smith is acting manager of Clean Cities.
Fleet Day, and Tonight We’re Still Cruisin’
3 R D N AT I O N A LALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLE ODYSSEY DAY
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Canada’s Kraus Global (Booth 819)will soon unveil a hydrogen compres-sion refueling module that combinesa diaphragm compressor, storage, gasmanagement and electrical controls ina compact, weatherproof enclosure.
The module will offer fuel through-puts suitable for industrial forklifts,buses, and demonstration vehicles, saysChris Damiani, business and productdevelopment manager for the Win-nipeg-based firm.
Kraus’ main business is CNG andLPG compressor packages and dis-pensing equipment using proprietaryvalve and control head parts.
Damiani says 70% of his business isoverseas, but that he’s looking to build
business stateside thanks to new fed-eral incentives for alt fuel infrastruc-ture. “Now is a good time to takeadvantage of the incentives and buildour customer business,” Damiani toldShowTimes.
Kraus claims more than 3,000 CNGor LPG dispensers in operation withmajor installations in China, Egypt,Turkey, Germany, Mexico, Korea andChile.
Kraus claims the first CNG bus sta-tions in Mexico, a comprehensive LPGrefueling infrastructure in Turkey, theworld’s first retail-style hydrogendispensers (in Munich), and an inno-vative “mother-daughter” CNG in-frastructure in Beijing.
Kraus Plans Return to U.S. Market
Eco Fuel’s EDI Wins New EPA NodsCanada’s Eco Fuel Systems (Booth 519) has new U.S. EPAapprovals for its Eco Digital Injection technology for con-verting model year 2006 GM vans to CNG operation. Thenew Certificates of Conformity cover Chevy Express and
GMC Savannah series 1500, 2500and 3500 passenger and cargo vanswith 4.8- or 6.0-liter engines, andcomes in addition to other EDI ap-provals for both Ford and GM ve-hicles. EDI is described as a
sequential injection control technology “for the demandingneeds of the North American conversion aftermarket.” Itoffers seamless, reliable operation and integration into ex-isting advanced onboard diagnostic (OBD II) systems, Ecosays. Ongoing remote support for the EDI is conducted viaa proprietary SmartCable PC link or remotely via GlobeLinkmodem-based dial-up.
Gannett Fleming for Key M&EFounded in 1915 and with 55 offices nationwide, GannettFleming (Booth 322) is here promoting its alt fuel mainte-nance facility engineering services. The firm has “gainedsignificant experience in the design of new facilities to ac-commodate alternative fuels and the conversion of existingfacilities.” Among the firm’s alt fuel facilities clients are Al-buquerque, Las Vegas, Queens, Baltimore, Cleveland andLos Angeles.
Krohne for CoriolisKrohne (Booth 422) is promoting two variants of its Opti-gas 5050C flow meters for the accurate measurement of fuelin CNG dispensers via Coriolis technology. The Optigas5050C S15 is designed for flow rates of up to 50 kilogramsper minute and the S25 for flow rates of up to 120 kilogramsper minute. The compactOptigas units employ trans-ducer-mounted sensors and aredesigned for compatibility withother dispenser electronics.They are also designed with aslim profile for ease of installation. Each unit is individu-ally wet-calibrated (see photo) and all conform to both theEuropean Pressure Equipment Directive as well as theASME requirements for the U.S. market.
Xebec Can Dry Your GasXebec is in from Quebec (Booth 615)promoting a line of regenerative dessi-cant dryers for natural gas vehicle fu-eling installations. The firm says it hassupplied more than 600 gas dryers forNGV fueling, primarily in NorthAmerica and the Far East. The firmalso makes gas filters.
S N A P S H O T SS N A P S H O T S
‘It’s been needed for a long time,’ Carla Fleming says of fuel-versatile vehicle.
Virginia’s Innovation Drive is pro-moting an all-new, composite-bodiedlightweight hybrid electric bus by Col-orado’s Mobile Energy Solutions.
The 37-foot low-floor vehicle is de-signed for full “plug-and-play” oper-ation and construction, says InnovationDrive CEO Carla York, with easilysubstitutable components that allowfor fuel cell and internal combustionengine variants, with latter capable ofusing propane, CNG, or hydrogenfuels, or diesel/biodiesel.
Team members have experiencewith Ebus and with Transteq, whichdesigned and built the three dozenCNG hybrid buses that continue toply the Denver mall, as well as with thecomposite ATTB bus program atNorthrop Grumman.
Partners include Hydrogenics forfuel cells and Connecticut’s Avalence,which has an electrolysis method ofproducing hydrogen that yields fuel athigh pressure—there is no need tocompress it.
Developers have striven to use “bestof breed” technologies “to accommo-date both the transit operator from anoperations and maintenance positionand to be very appealing to the ridingpublic,” York told ShowTimes.
“It’s something that’s been neededfor a long time.”
One thing that might be appreciatedby visitors here this week: plans includefor installation of WiFi hardware sothat every bus will be an internet hotspot for the convenience of riders.
Innovation Drive is at Booth 307.
New Multi-Fuel Hybrid Bus
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Lincoln Composites is designing alarge cylinder for bulk hauling andstorage of CNG and hydrogen—solarge that Lincoln is looking to dou-
ble its Nebraska manufacturingspace and is lining up additionalsupplies of carbon fiber.
Investment is $2.5 million.The new tank will measure ap-
proximately 1.08 meters in diame-ter by 11.5 meters length, or morethan 42.5 inches by nearly 38 feet.Internal volume will be about 8,700liters. The Type IV all-compositedesign with high-density polyeth-ylene liner and carbon fiber over-wrap is said to yield a tank weighingsome 60% less than a comparablysized metal unit.
CNG and hydrogen variants arebeing designed for service pressuresof 250 bar (3,600 psi) and 350 bar(5,000 psi).
Each of the big cylinders is ex-pected to consume from one-half toa full metric ton of carbon (de-pending on pressure). Annual re-quirements will approach 300metric tons. Also taking Lincoln be-
yond the basic business of CNGtanks are 10,000-psi hydrogencylinders to Vancouver’s Gen-eral Hydrogen for fuel cell fork-lifts, and accumulator shells toParker Hannifin (Booth 826)for series hydraulic hybrid re-fuse trucks by Autocar (the for-mer Volvo Truck) in the U.S.
Since last year Lincoln hasbeen a unit of Norway’s Hexa-gon, which also owns Raufoss.Raufoss said at the EuropeanNatural Gas Vehicle Associa-tion meeting in Brussels late lastmonth that it’s designing newType IV CNG tanks for amajor, as yet undisclosed Euro-pean automaker.
They are to be manufacturedby the thousands on an automatedline operated by sister company Ra-gasco.
Other CNG cylinder manufac-turers here this week include Struc-
tural Composites Industries, a unitof Harsco GasServ (Booth 627),Luxfer Gas Cylinders (Booth 728),and Canada’s Dynetek Industries(Booth 712).
Lincoln’s Launching a Huge New Cylinder
We Missed One!Yesterday we omitted Green-Field Compression from the listof companies that are here thisweek but that also made thetrek and displayed at the Euro-pean Natural Gas Vehicle Asso-ciation’s annual meeting inBrussels late last month.
For GreenField it was perhapsles of a trek: the former Sulzer,which specializes in high-pres-sure gases, including CNG, isheadquartered in Switzerland.
Sales VP Dave Pearce isbased in Richardson, Texas.
GreenField does business tooin Australia and South America.
Booth 823 here.
Boone Pickens, majority shareholder and chair-man emeritus of Clean Energy Fuels, was namedlate last year as one of nine winners of the 2006Horatio Alger Award.
“Boone Pickens provides a modern day exam-ple that hard work, perseverance, and integrity arethe cornerstonesupon which successin our great nationand the realizationof the Americandream are built,”said Dennis Wash-ington, presidentand CEO of theHoratio Alger Asso-ciation of Distin-guished Americans.
The Alger organ-ization antes more than $5 million per year forneed-based college scholarships for high schoolseniors “who have proven their ability to overcomeadversity.”
Pickens joins previous Horatio Alger winnersincluding Senator Bob Dole, boxer George Fore-man, the Rev. Billy Graham, former Secretary ofState Colin L. Powell and Oprah Winfrey.
Boone Pickens
Rags to Riches,It’s Official
Lincoln’s Brock Henderson
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It’s like running a marathon, says Steve Ellis ofAmerican Honda (who should know, as he’s runseveral). Establishing hydrogen as a viable alter-native fuel requires stamina and patience, andthe ability to maintain long periods of continuedeffort with the end still far away. It requires know-
ing when to pace yourself and when to bust aseam. It requires technical and psychologicalprowess.
Honda’s hydrogen marathon has included thehappy cultivation of a Los Angeles family, the
Spallinos, as the world’sfirst fuel cell family and,on the technical side,hard-nosed develop-ment of a better fuel cellstack and advanced hy-drogen storage materi-als, making for “morepower in less space.”
Honda cited signifi-cant technical advantages at the North Ameri-can International Auto Show in Detroit earlierthis year, and vowed there to commence pro-duction of its FCX fuel cell vehicle, in Japan inthree to four years.
The vehicle will employ a new V Flow fuel cellwith a vertical cell arrangement that takes fulladvantage of gravity to more efficiently dischargewater formed during electricity generation, yield-ing 100 kilowatts of power in a sleek package. Anew, as-yet unspecified hydrogen storagemedium (“We never said it was metal hydrides,”says Ellis) is said to double onboard fuel-carry-ing capacity, allowing a single-fill vehicle rangeof 350 miles with a 5,000-psi tank—relatively lowpressure for hydrogen. The vehicle is to havean 80-kilowatt motor in front and two 25-kilo-watt motors in the rear.
“The premium fuel cell sedan offers the ulti-mate in clean-running performance, and repre-sents Honda’s vision of future mobility in whichvehicles are less dependent on fossil fuels andproduce no significant emissions,” the com-pany says.
“Honda’s FCX Concept defines a new stage inthe evolution of fuel cell vehicle technology. TheFCX Concept is designed with a low center ofgravity and a full-sized cabin, offering the kindof driving pleasure and roomy interior previouslyunimaginable in a fuel cell vehicle.
The FCX Concept is designed with a shortfront end to make the most of its unique low-floor platform, creating a comfortably largecabin. A tapered cabin profile and accentuatedfender flare create an attractively dynamic look.”
That’s serious stuff. The Spallinos (who, in-cidentally, first drove a dedicated-CNG HondaCivic GX, and thus exemplify Honda’s “hydro-gen apprectice” concept) are more fun, and havegenerated serious media interest in hydrogenas a future fuel that’s ekeing out a role in thepresent.
Honda’s strategy has made for the kind of pub-licity you can’t buy, as the Spallinos have beenfeatured and Ellis interviewed by media outletsincluding Automotive News and The New YorkTimes, as well as CNN, NPR, CBS, CNBC,Bloomberg, and the Discovery Channel.
Steve Ellis in the fuel cell FCX here at Clean Cities.
Steve EllisManager, Fuel Cell Vehicle MarketingAmerican Honda (Booths 200 & 818)
Dealers wanted: Miles Automotive Group(Booth 308) is trolling for dealers here atClean Cities and at auto shows across thecountry for its Chinese-made battery-elec-tric vehicles. Here now and available for im-mediate delivery is the ZX40 low-speed EV.Coming this fall is the ZX70 off-road. Andpromised for late 2007 is the XS200, a full-function EV powered by lithium-ion batter-ies with a top speed of 80 mph and 200-milerange. The XS200 is currently undergoingFMVSS crash tests on the chassis.China’s Tianjin supplies the ZX40’s lead-acid battery and charger, which is both 110-volt and 220-volt compatible.
Miles CEO David Hirsch
Miles Wants Dealers
The Honda FCX of the future... today’s is in the lobby here this week.
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Honda’s in for the Long Haul to Hydrogen
Clean Cities veteran Parker-Hannifin (Booth 826) is show-ing a line of advanced filters,and nitrogen generators for avariety of applications, includ-ing tire inflation.
Parker’s gas filters are suit-able for natural gas fueling in-stallations and for onboardNGV use. Parker’s filters aresold under the Finite brandname.
The company’s filter unit isin Oxford, Mich.
Nitrogen tire inflation, Parker says, helpsmaintain correct tire pressure, improving bothvehicle performance and tire longevity. That’sbecause oxygen can penetrate a tire causing pres-
sure to drop and can react withrubber, resulting in prematureaging.
Parker’s nitrogen generatorsare sold under the BallstonTire$aver tradename. Thecompany’s Ballston unit is inHaverhill, Mass.
Parker’s hydraulic accumula-tor division in Rockford, Ill.supplies “RunWise” hybriddrive components for a new hy-draulic hybrid refuse truck, theE3, unveiled early last month
by Indiana’s Autocar. Parker uses pressure vessels from Lincoln
Composites (Booth 821) for the Autocar hybrid,for which fuel savings of 50% are projected.
Parker for Filters and Tires
Parker H Series filters
AFV Solutions, Inc., the Arizona start-upheaded by former state legislator Jeff Groscost,is beginning its business life with gasoline-propane bi-fuel vehicle conversions—for whichit sees an immediate market—as it moves for-
ward with ambitiousplans for CNG andhybrid and battery elec-tric vehicles, all the wayup the alt fuel line tohydrogen.
AFVS late last yearended an SEC-mandatedsilent period from which
it emerged as a new public company(OTBB:AFVS). The firm now holds EPA certi-fication of propane bi-fuel conversions ofmodel year 2003-2005 Ford vehicles with 4.6-liter engines. “We chose this Ford engine
family for our initial system because the 4.6liter-equipped Crown Victoria is the fleetvehicle of choice,” Groscost says. He is AFVSpresident and CEO.
“The market is prime,” he says. Not only arethere fleet mandates and a general need to dosomething about oil imports, there is a “newparadigm,” he says, of conventional fuel pricesthat are becoming unacceptable.
Fleet operators, Groscost says, are now facedwith “a dollar and cents case. It actually makessense for them to look at alternative fuels.”
“Fleet operators that retrofit with our systemand purchase bulk propane can substantiallyreduce their fuel costs, often by up to 40%,while increasing their vehicles’ longevity andreducing maintenance costs... We can showthem amazing monetary savings.”
Groscost says he used to be a CNG man,with a vision of getting “an alt fuel vehicle intoeverybody’s garage.” Now he sees propane forfleets as the way to go. Propane prices haven’tspiked like gasoline’s, conversions cost less, and
operators enjoy better vehicle range. AFVS won’t stop with propane, Groscost says,
but will tackle dedicated-CNG conversions too,likely beginning with later-model Ford engines.“It’s our belief that if we can certify a bi-fuelpropane we can certify anything.” He claims anedge in an OBD II-compliant microprocessor, andsays that while he’s in negotiations now with var-ious suppliers for other conversion hardware, “theprocessor is going to be ours no matter what.”
The AFVS strategy is in line with trends in thealternative fuel sector. Propane has advantagesnow, Groscost says, and natural gas will begin tolook better as pipeline capacity improves and moregas is made available.
AFVS is looking to the far future too—the firm’snot limiting itself to conversions. “We are trying toposition ourselves as a diversified alternativeenergy company,” Groscost says. He promisesannouncements in the coming months regardingprojects as wide-ranging as ethanol production andonboard hydrogen generation for vehicles.
Groscost is promoting a Chinese-made bus,available as a propane or natural gas vehicle, or as ahybrid—for which AFVS claims marketing rightsfor five countries including the U.S., Mexico andIndia. The rights are based on an agreement withChina’s Wu Zhou Long Motors disclosed early lastmonth. Wu Zhou Long has ISO 9001 certification,AFVS reports. AFVS says it anticipates making thebuses available immediately outside the U.S. andhas begun the process with U.S. agencies to getclearance to begin importing.
The Wu Zhou Long hybrid drivetrain is said toimprove fuel efficiency by some 30%. The first busis to arrive in Los Angeles next week.
Jeff Groscost
Jeff GroscostPresident & CEOAFV Solutions (Booth 301)
Hybrid bus for AFVS being loaded at Guangzhou. It’s due to arrive in Los Angeles on May 13.
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by additional units from Luxfer. The biggest single customer appears to
be Anaheim Yellow Cab, which has ordered65 vehicles from Wondries Ford (see itembelow left). Wondries’ Clark Cooper saysthey’ll operate largely out of the JohnWayne/Orange County airport.
“I have 130 sold,” says proprietor Ray Sim-mons of Crenshaw Ford. He’s got 85 vehiclescoming from BAF and says he hopes to findlow-mileage used 2006 gasoline sedans thatcan be converted to CNG by BAF.
Helping make all the business possible isSCAQMD money to offset the $10,200 (or$10,900 for extended range) BAF conversionpackage. South Coast has allocated an addi-tional $1.5 million in incentive funding,bringing the 2006 total to $2.7 million,enough to cover up to 136 vehicles, accord-ing to the California NGV Coalition. “Butit’s well short of what’s needed to fund the 450taxis Los Angeles dealers say they can sell,”Cal NGVC says—it’s pushing for fundingof $10 million. Cal NGVC is at.
Why is this man smiling?He’s Bill Calvert, VP of BAF Technologies, and he
says “We’ve proven to everyone that the aftermarket cando it.” What the aftermarket can do is pick up wherethe OEMs left off, specifically Ford, which dropped outof natural gas vehicles, leaving taxi operators and oth-ers who are now fast becoming eligible for major in-
centives without the CrownVictoria (and Lincoln Town Car)sedans they’d been counting on.
BAF (Booth 818) got its formal,final California Air ResourcesBoard certification last month formodel year 2006 Fords with 4.6-liter engines. CARB’s qualifiedthem as super ultra low emission
vehicles—SULEVs. They are deemed to be Tier 2, bin2 vehicles by the U.S. EPA.
With the CARB certification, support from agenciesincluding the South Coast Air Quality Management Dis-trict is spurring sales of Crown Vics converted to dedi-cated CNG operation.
“I have firm orders for 129 vehicles, taxis in Califor-nia,” Calvert says. Another 200 or 225 are pending.
BAF has laid in hardware for converting upwards of300 Vics, having bought Ford’s inventory of Type IICNG cylinders made by Pressed Steel Tank, augmented
Wondries Ford is in from Los Angeles promotingan inventory of natural gas vehicles: 85 dedicated-CNG year 2004 F-150 Ford pickups (bought whenFord dropped out of the market) as well as some ofthe last 2006 CNG pickups from General Motors(they’re being discontinued after this year).
Wondries Clark Cooper, said to be the most pro-lific NGV salesman in North America, is on hand,now promoting aftermarket Crown Victoria sedansconverted to CNG by BAF Technologies. He’s han-dling the sale to Anaheim Yellow Cab (see storyabove) and has a modest inventory, as well.
Wondries Has the Cars
BAF Technologies Picks Up Where Ford Left Off
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www.cleanvehicle.org
A SAFETY AWARENESS MESSAGE FOR NATURAL GAS VEHICLE OPERATORS
HAVE YOUR CNG CYLINDERS BEEN
PROPERLY INSPECTED?Did you knowthat a visualinspection shouldbe performedevery 36 monthsor 36,000 miles?Vehicles that run on Compressed NaturalGas (CNG) should have their fuel systemschecked periodically by a qualifiedinspector. In fact, federal DOT regulationsrequire that all CNG cylinder labelsinclude the notice highlighted above.
A qualified inspector is trained to look for cuts, abrasions, abnormal wear and otherdamage or deterioration that may compromise the continued safe operation of aCNG fuel system, and recommend corrective action.
To locate a qualified inspector in your area or to learn more about how you canbecome a trained and certified inspector, contact the Clean Vehicle EducationFoundation (CVEF) at http://www.cleanvehicle.org/technology/cylinder.shtml. You may qualify for training and certification testingscholarship funds available through a US DOE-underwritten program administered by CVEF.
For more information, visit our website or contact Hank Seiff([email protected]).
Wondries’ two Clark Coopers flank Kimberly Driedger.
Bill Calvert
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“We are building like crazy,” saysJohn Doty, who handles marketingfor IdleAire Technologies. The Ten-nessee company claims to have in-stalled its Advanced TruckstopElectrification (ATE) system at twodozen locations in 11 states, and tohave an additional 210 locationsunder construction in 35 states.
IdleAire (Booth 315) offers a wayfor truckers to reduce idling and savemoney, spelling a win-win combi-nation, especially in a time of re-lentlessly rising fuel prices andconcern about diesel pollution.
If all U.S. trucks used the IdleAiresystem, 4.4 billion gallons of fuelcould be saved, the company says.That’s unlikely, but just one truckusing the system consistently forone year can save 3,366 gallons offuel—which is why IdleAire canclaim agreements for drivers’ use ofthe IdleAire system from more than1,500 fleets in the U.S. and Canada.
IdleAire installs and operates itsATE system with no cost to theproperty owner, and indeed “cre-ates a new revenue stream for the
parking lot owner.”Truckers need invest no more
than $10 for a window adapter, al-lowing use of the IdleAire service.Warm–or cool–air is ducted into thetruck cabin under full driver control(65 to 85 degrees). The IdleAirepanel also includes a computer dis-play for Internet access (for newsand entertainment as well as truckertraining) with USB ports for con-trol devices; power for electrical ap-pliances, satellite TV and telephonehookups, and a night light.
Service charges are incurred forone minimum hour, afterward bythe minute. Truckers begin savingimmediately via reductions in fueluse and engine wear, emissions areeliminated for the time the truck isstopped, and driver rest is improved.
IdleAire lined up $320 million infinancing earlier this year and hasawarded a $65 million contract toEaton for Power Truss brand powersupplies for some 13,200 additionaltruck stop spaces.
“With escalating fuel costs, tight-ening emissions requirements and
highway safety issues, our partnershipwith IdleAire yields an immediate andlong-term solution to the trucking in-dustry that addresses air quality, fuelconservation and training issues,” saidEaton electrical group presidentRandy Carson. “We’re thrilled tocontribute to an advancement thatsubstantially improves the quality oflife for our nation’s truck drivers as
they transport more than 80% of ournation’s goods.”
IdleAire late last year signedcountry crooner Trace Adkins as itsspokesman. “We anticipate that hewill provide invaluable assistance inthe company’s marketing efforts aswe pursue our aggressive growthplan over the next 15 months,” saidIdleAire CEO Mike Crabtree.
All the comforts of a country home... including IdleAire’s own in-cab TruckingEntertainment Network, which includes an IdleAire-developed television chan-nel dubbed TENCountry that delivers country music videos and other enter-tainment to drivers when connected to the IdleAire system.
IdleAire Enjoys Boomtimes in Idle Reduction
NEW IDLEAIRE LOCATIONSSTART COMPLETION # SPACES
Ontario (west) 3/20/2006 5/15/2006 93 Cartersville, GA 3/20/2006 5/1/2006 72 North Little Rock, AR 3/27/2006 5/8/2006 78 Atlanta (expansion) 4/3/2006 5/1/2006 33 Coachella, CA 4/3/2006 5/15/2006 72
Atlanta, GA (Jackson) 4/10/2006 5/22/2006 63 Spartanburg, SC 4/10/2006 5/29/2006 60 Carlisle, PA 4/17/2006 6/19/2006 72 Amarillo, TX 4/24/2006 6/5/2006 81 Wheeler Ridge, CA 4/24/2006 6/19/2006 66
Glade Spring, VA 5/1/2006 6/12/2006 90 Prescott, AR 5/1/2006 6/12/2006 75 Weatherford, TX 5/1/2006 6/12/2006 57 Greencastle, PA 5/1/2006 6/12/2006 87 Wildwood, FL 5/8/2006 6/19/2006 69
Hammond, LA 5/8/2006 6/19/2006 72 Jessup, MD 5/8/2006 7/3/2006 129 Milan, NM 5/15/2006 6/26/2006 78 Knoxville, TN 5/15/2006 6/26/2006 51 Shreveport, LA 5/15/2006 6/26/2006 72
Baytown, TX 5/15/2006 6/26/2006 51 Harborcreek, PA 5/15/2006 6/26/2006 72 Eloy, AZ 5/22/2006 7/10/2006 72 Nashville, TN 5/22/2006 7/10/2006 69 Jackson, MS 5/22/2006 7/10/2006 60
Orange, TX 5/22/2006 7/10/2006 66 Frystown, PA 5/22/2006 7/10/2006 72 Eloy, AZ 5/29/2006 7/17/2006 63 Hurricane Mills 5/29/2006 7/17/2006 60 Meridian, MS 5/29/2006 7/17/2006 51 Beaumont, TX 5/29/2006 7/17/2006 60 Breezewood, PA 5/29/2006 7/17/2006 78
Biodiesel Industries has received apatent for its MPUs: modular pro-duction units, for biodiesel.
U.S. Patent 6,979,426 covers“production of biodiesel fuel usinga modular production unit incorpo-rated onto a single platform for easeof installation and relocating,” thefirm says, “as well as several partic-ular aspects of the design for col-
lecting and processing a wide rangeof feedstocks,” including recycledcooking oils, animal fats, and virginvegetable oils.
“This flexibility allows processors
to use locally available and inexpen-sive materials to make biodiesel at areasonable price,” the company says.
Full blueprints and permitting as-sistance is provided.
A standard MPU can turn out as much as 3 million gallons ofbiodiesel per year.
Santa Barbara-based Biodiesel In-dustries is a major provider to the
U.S. Navy, and suppliedthe hardware for a plantin Denton, Texas, thatuses landfill methane forits process energy needs.The firm is also re-searching new agricul-
tural sources of feedstock oils,including a plant known as jatrophavia a joint venture with India’s Lab-land Biotech. Biodiesel Industries isat Booth 606.
Biodiesel Industries Has a Patentfor Modular, Scalable Production
It takes a big truck, but it is portable.
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Propane Mows On
Clean Cities exhibitors General Motors andDaimlerChrysler promoted their new,“avant-garde” hybrid vehicle technologywith BMW late last month in Vienna, andsaid it would be applicable to numerous ve-hicle sizes and classes.
The 2-mode hybrid is said to represent“a major automotive industry milestone dueto the unprecedented fully integrated com-bination of electric motors with a fixed-geartransmission.” It maximizes the transmis-
sion of power through four different fixedgear mechanical paths in combination withan ECVT (electric continuously variabletransmission) mode, with an electronic con-trol module that “constantly optimizes theentire hybrid powertrain system to selectthe most efficient operation point for thepower level demanded by the driver.” Theresult is significantly better fuel economy,and lower vehicle emissions.
The new hybrid design is said to be scal-able to a wide range of vehiclesizes. “Full hybrid systems areunder development for front- andrear-wheel-drive passenger cars,and light-duty truck and SUV ap-plications,” the three automakerssaid. A Chevy Tahoe with the 2-mode drive, which is slated to goon sale in 2008, is on display hereat GM’s Booth 500.
GM, Daimler and BMWfor Versatile Hybrid Drive
Automakers stress’Global Hybrid Cooper-ation’ on the Two-ModeSystem. Execs pro-moting the technologyare Andreas Trucken-brodt o f Da imler -Chrysler, Larry Nitz ofGM, and Dr. Wolfgang Epple of BMW.
“The world’s fastest lawnmower” is now availableon propane as Indiana’s Dixie Chopper and GeneracPower Systems of Waukesha, Wisc. have teamed tofit the machine with a 30-horsepower, 999cc verticalshaft air-cooled GAP engine—GAP for gaseous alter-native power. “In terms of off-road emissions, lawnmowers are huge offenders,” says the Propane Edu-cation & Research Council, which is showing the DixieChopper here (Booth 512).
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The California Air Resources Board is taking stockof its groundbreaking zero-emission vehicle reg-ulation—the ZEV mandate. CARB has establishedan independent expert review panel and is plan-ning a tech symposium this fall to review the sta-tus of ZEV technologies and the prospects fornear-term and long-term improvement.
The six-member expert panel is led by notedautomotive expert Michael Walsh, a mechanicalengineer who has worked on motor vehicle pol-lution control issues at the local, national and in-ternational level. The September 25-27 Tech
Symposium will feature invited presentations onnear- and mid-term technologies, on such topicsas fuel cell and hydrogen storage, electric drivesystems, battery advances, plug-in hybrids, andvehicle platform and integration issues.
The review follows CARB’s direction, after its2003 regulatory hearings, to establish the inde-pendent panel and conduct periodic technologyreviews. Staff will prepare a report to the boardthis fall. If, after reviewing the technology, staffrecommended the board consider regulatorychanges, new proceedings would begin next year.
California ZEV Mandate? Very Much Alive
That big Clean Energy LNGtanker on the side of the ex-hibit hall has a brand newtrailer from Indiana’s Alloy Cus-tom Products and a just-certi-fied engine, the 15-liter ISX,
from Westport (Booth 817). The engine uses Westport’s
High Pressure Direct Injectiontechnology allowing it to runprimarily on natural gas whileretaining the fundamental effi-ciency of the sparkless dieselcycle, also known as com-pression ignition.
California has certified theISX to 1.2 grams of NOx and
0.02 grams of particulates perbrake horsepower hour. Thediesel ISX with exhaust gas re-circulation is certified at 2.5grams of NOx.
The engine is being pro-moted for 2006 forselected fleets ofLNG-fueled over-the-road trucks. TheHPDI installation hasbeen improved overearlier rigs with theaddition of EGR, andwith proprietary LNGtanks with integrated
pumps for pressurizing the fuelto required HPDI levels.
Alloy (Booth 900) is pro-moting a line of trailers, truckmounts and rail cars, as wellas stationary cryogenic tanksallowing storage of 50 to80,000 gallons of liquefied nat-ural gas.
“Each transporter is config-ured to meet all of your speci-
fications and provide reducedannual ownership costs,” thefirm says.
“Customers tell us they havereduced ownership costs com-pared to other manufacturers’transport equipment.”
“We’re the largest LNGtranspor ter manufacturer inthe United States,” says pro-prietor Louis Blum. “We buildmore than anybody.”
Alloy says it’s turned outmore than 130 LNG trailerssince 1996.
The company also providesprocess skids and vacuum jack-eted piping systems, repairscryogenic hardware, and offersin-house painting services.
Alloy holds ASME, DoT,TC341 and other certifications.
Liquid hydrogen? “We havethe technology and the equip-ment to do it,” Blum says.
“It just hasn’t presented it-self as a viable opportunity.”
Westport’s HPDI-Modified ISX, Alloy Custom Tank
Fleet durability and certification testing special-ist Boshart Engineering (Booth 110) is steppinginto the EV conversion business, bringing Koreanand Chinese-manufactured light-duty personnel and heavy-dutypayload vehicles for off-roaduse to the States.
Initial target market: fleets atthe ports of Long Beach and LosAngeles, followed by other off-road campus and industrial set-tings where emission reductionsare growing issues.
A late-comer to the Clean Cities conference,
you won’t find Boshart Electric Vehicles in theprogram. But you will find both trucks at today’sride-and-drive, along with about 20 other CNG,
fuel cell, hybrid, E85, andpropane vehicles from Baytech,Campbell-Parnell, eTec, FeelGood Cars, GEM, GM AltFuels, Honda, Jasper/Prins,Miles Automotive Group,NEVC and Toyota.
“These are real workhorsetrucks,” says Boshart’s Chip Doe-
den, who says the gasoline versions are among themost popular on-road vehicles in China.
Boshart Arrives for the Ride-and-Drive
Boshart chassis are made in Asia.
Westport’s Charlie Ker and Graham Williams
Feel Good Cars (Booth 423) is begin-ning production of its low speed orneighborhood electric vehicles (LSVsor NEVs).
The Toronto-based company is lin-ing up dealers for deliveries expectedto start this summer.
But Feel Good’s big news may breaklater, when the firm is ready to embracea new type of battery. Feel Good claimsa small vehicle exclusive on the device,which promises to be an enabler for allmanner of on-road electric vehicles.
The battery, in development by secretiveEEStor of Austin, Texas, is described as a ceramicultracapacitor-type energy storage device, withbarium titanate dielectric. The solid-state unit isprojected to store up to ten times the energy (byweight and volume) of lead acid batteries at thesame cost. Or, the EEStor device will store fromone and a half to two and a half times the energyof lithium ion batteries at just 12% to 25% oftheir cost. They are also said to be capable of ex-tremely fast charging. They could start beingplaced on Feel Good vehicles next year.
Feel Good has made a down payment of some$2.5 million to EEStor to lock in its exclusive on
EEStor batteries for small vehicles. Feel Good plans to begin installing electric
drivetrains in MC-1 gliders from France’s Mi-crocar at a 40,000-square-foot facility it’s justleased in St. Jerome, north of Montreal. The firmis hiring personnel now to install the vehicles’General Electric motors and controllers, onboardDelta-Q chargers, and lead acid batteries, fromTrojan. Gilles Allard has joined Feel Good asproduction VP.
Nickel metal hydride and lithium ion batter-ies are being considered as options after the basicFeel Good drivetrain is engineered to accom-modate them.
Feel Good is also puttingthe finishing touches on its re-generative braking system, asit believes customers prefer acar that “glides” more thanmost EVs with regen. FeelGood’s regen will engage whenthe brakes are applied, notwhen the driver lifts his footoff the accelerator.
“From a neighborhood elec-tric vehicle perspective, we arepositioning ourselves as the
luxury entry,” says CEO Ian Clifford. Feel Good claims its ZENNs to be the world’s
first luxury EVs, fitted as they are with featureslike power windows, remote-control key-lessdoor locks, and aluminum wheels.
“We want to get into as many fleet opportu-nities as we can,” Clifford says. “It’s better to haveone customer with 100 vehicles than 100 cus-tomers with one.”
Tourist rentals are one target market, and“GSA’s going to be really important to us,”Clifford says. Feel Good’s ZENN cars (for zeroemission, no noise) are road legal in 44 states, inAsia, and throughout Europe.
Daimler’s Global Electric Motorcars(Booth 800) has introduced e6 ande6S six-seater battery EVs.
Fargo-based GEM has stepped upits sales to fleets this year, tacklingsuch markets as port ve-hicles and airports.
Like GEM’s existingtwo- and four-seat mod-
els, the six-seaters employ lead acidbatteries to drive 72-volt, 5-horse-power DC motors. Speed is governedat 25 mph and single charge rangeis advertised at about 30 miles.
GEM pricing rangesfrom $7,745 for the two-seat eS to $12,995 forthe new six-seat e6S.
Airports are among the target markets for GEM vehicles like this model.
GEMs Can Now Seat Six
Dallas-based Tiger Truck hasbeen selling a wide range of off-road work vehicles since 1999,boasting nearly all types of bodystyles, from people-mover todump truck, and fueling optionsranging from straight gasoline tobattery electrics.
“Our strong trucks,” says VPMike Felder, “have more fuelchoices and body configuration
options than anybody else.”Tiger (Booth 100) recently
claimed to be the first manufac-turer to win E85 ethanol ap-proval from the U.S. EPA, andto offer an E85 hybrid for sale.
Tiger claims a hybrid electricdrive that with a nine-gallon fueltank yields single-fill range of550 miles. The vehicles are gov-erned to 25 mpg.
Electrics and Hybrids,and Even an E85 Hybrid
Feel Good Lines Up Possible Super Battery
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GEM’s new e6
Leading the march on First Street at right is Feel Good president Brian Cott, followedby business advancement VP Graham Hill and sales VP Bill Williams.
Tom Clark represents Dallas-based Tiger Truck.
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Maxwell Tailors Its UltracapsSan Diego-based Maxwell launched some 30 new ultraca-pacitors designed including high power units for hybrids butapplicable to fuel cell and battery electrics as well. “Theproducts are tailored to our specific customers now,” saidBobby Maher, director of technical sales. “They can be putinto series for high voltage, they can be put into parallel formore power.” Fleets & Fuels, February 27
Switzerland’s CNG PriusA CNG Prius was shown at the recent Geneva Auto Show.The conversion was performed by the Swiss firms Holdigazand Gznar, and cost some $5,000. The kit includes two CNG
tanks, which take up the spare wheelwell under the trunk, and hold 22 litersof gas affording a range of about 150miles. Greenhouse gas emissions arereduced about 12%.
Fleets & Fuels, April 24
Modec Battery EV with Zebra PowerBritain’s Modec Vehicles has unveiled a line of batteryelectric vehicles, initially em-phasizing the urban deliverymarket. Single-charge rangewill be upwards of 100 miles.Payload is 2 tons. Modec’snew truck is exempt fromcongestion charges and roadtax. The vehicle will be available in right- or left-hand driveas a box van or flatbed. It can be fitted as a bus with capac-ity for 16 seated passengers or six in wheelchairs. It will ini-tially be offered with nickel sodium chloride batteries (Zebrabatteries from MES-DEA of Switzerland) and later will beavailable with lithium ion batteries, Borwick says. Drive-trains are by Britain’s Zytek Engineering. Full series pro-duction is slated to begin in November at a new Modecfactory in Coventry. Fleets & Fuels, February 27
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F L E E T S & F U E L SF L E E T S & F U E L S
Three Clean Cities exhibitors are inthe thick of a Canadian project to tapa plentiful supply of hydrogen that’sgoing to waste: surplus H2 fromsodium chlorate manufacturing.
Sodium chlorate is made via elec-trolysis of brine (salt water), a processthat also yields oxygen and hydrogen.Most of the hydrogen is burned now,or even vented as waste. The same istrue at chlor-alkali plants that makechlorine and caustic soda.
Enter the Canadian government-supported, $15.4 million IntegratedWaste Hydrogen Utilization Project.
Raw (and wet) hydrogen waste willbe collected from a sodium chlorateplant operated by Toronto-based ErcoWorldwide, a unit of Calgary’s Supe-rior Plus, Inc.
Phoenix-based eTec (Booth 323) isconverting eight trucks it’s converting
for IWHUP partner Powertech Labs,using fuel cylinders from Dynetek(Booth 712).
The vehicles are modified Chevro-let Silverados with 6.0-liter engines.eTec is fitting them with screw-typeLysholm superchargers with Magnu-son intake and intercooler, andadapter (by Roush Industries) to matethe two.
Westport (Booth 817) is supplyingengines for transit buses that will runon a hydrogen and CNG mix.
“If all the by-product hydrogen wasrecovered from the North Vancouverplant,” said one project participant, “itcould provide fuel to a fleet of up to20,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles inthe Vancouver area, greatly reducinggreenhouse gas emissions.”
North Vancouver’s Sacré-Davey In-novations is IWHUP project leader.
Who Says Hydrogen’s Hard to Find?
ALT Looks to Renewable LNG Fuels
FuelMaker may be gaining fame forthe Phill home fueler, but “our tradi-tional market is fleets,” says MarkSmith, Northeast region sales man-ager. That’s why the Toronto-basedcompany (Booth 715) is stepping upits marketing to forklift operators inthe U.S., citing economic, workplacesafety and emissions advantages.
It’s a market that’s been a success forFuelMaker in Canada, so it’s beingtaken south, with initial marketing inthe Northeast.
On show here is the firm’s work-horse FMQ-2-36 model, describedas a good starter unit for small fleetsas it can fill at about a gallon of gaso-
line equivalent per hour. Forklifts cus-tomers usually average about 10 ve-hicles operating multiple shift, Smithsays, so the FMQ-8-36, at four gallonsper hour, is more appropriate.
FuelMaker Looks to the Forklift,Tackling the Segment in the U.S.
Fleets & Fuels560 Fourth StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107
www.fleetsandfuels.com
FuelMaker VP Mario Pirraglia andpresident John Lyon
Amarillo-based Applied LNG Tech-nologies is shifting its emphasis frompipeline sources of liquefied natural gasto renewable sources.
ALT has teamed with New Hamp-shire’s Environmental Power Corp, andEPC subsidiary Microgy, “to identify,evaluate and develop projects, princi-pally in California, that combine Mi-crogy’s anaerobic digestion technology,which extracts methane-rich biogas
from animal waste, and ALT’s LNGtransport and distribution technology.”
ALT late last year was acquired byDallas-based Apollo Resources. It hadpreviously sold its 100,000-gallon-per-day LNG facility north of Houston toClean Energy for $14 million (includ-ing tanker trucks and equipment), andsaid it would concentrate on renewablesources of feedstock rather thanpipeline gas.
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TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2006CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:00 AM — 5:00 PM REGISTRATION — Lobby One
7:00 AM — 8:00 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST — Hall A
8:00 AM — 9:30 AM GENERAL SESSION — Hall A
A Look at the Energy Bill
Public/Private Partnerships Work
2006 Auto Industry Review
10:30 AM — NOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1. The Bottom Line: Making a Business Case for AFVs — Flagstaff 1
2. Just the Facts: Dispelling the Myths About Biofuels — Flagstaff 4
3. SmartWay Forward: Truckers Idle No More — Prescott 6
4. Reinventing the Wheels: Light-Duty Product Preview — Prescott 8
1:30 PM — 3:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1. Driving Range: Making Fuel ChoicesThat Will TakeYou Farther — Flagstaff 1
2. Wise Guys: Training Technicians on AFVs andAdvanced Technologies — Flagstaff 4
3. Keep on Trucking: Engines that Meet the 2007/2010EPA Standards — Prescott 6
4. Reinventing the Wheels: Product Preview — Prescott 8
3:00 PM — 4:30 PM CLEAN CITIES INDUSTRY ALLIANCECOORDINATORS MEETING — Prescott 8This meeting is for Clean Cities Coordinators only.
3:00 PM — 5:30 PM EXPO OVERDRIVE — East Perimeter of Convention CenterUse North Door Exit
EXPO OVERDRIVE — VENDOR TRACKS
3:00 PM — 3:25 PM
Cummins Westport — Flagstaff 1
GreenField Compression Inc. — Flagstaff 4
Propane Education & Research Council — Prescott 6
3:30 PM — 3:55 PM
General Motors Alternative Fuels — Flagstaff 1
National Biodiesel Board — Flagstaff 4
AFV Solutions — Prescott 6
4:00 PM — 4:25 PM
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition — Flagstaff
ICF International — Flagstaff 4
Deere Power Systems — Prescott 6
4:30 PM — 4:55 PM
American Honda — Expo Hall, Exhibit 200
6:30 PM — CLOSING
Alice Cooper’stown Is a Gas — John Deere and PG&E’s Closing Reception
Cooper’stown, 101 East Jackson Street. Walking distance of the hotel, but for those who pre-fer Pedicabs, they will be available at the 1st Street entrance of the Phoenix Wyndham lobby.
A booth you can look up to.
GM is proud to support the efforts of the Clean Cities Program. Through innovative thinking, we’re constantly working on new ways to reduce emissions. Come see what’s new at Booth 500.
The Fab/AFV Fleet Service yard in Fontana, Calif.
AFV Fleet Service, a new unit of FabIndustries, is promoting its new46,000-square-foot facility in Fontana,Calif., where the company performsengine installations and other heavy-duty vehicle upfits.
The Fontana facility “will enableAFV to continue the manufacturingand installation of CNG, LNG andLPG fuel systems while continuing togrow the fleet, transit and municipalservice business they have built theirreputation on,” the firm says.
The company is at Booth 628 here.Fab is best known for its work on
buses, notably the installation of com-pressed and liquefied natural gas fuelsystems for operators including LosAngeles Metro and Big Blue Bus inSanta Monica on North American BusIndustries and New Flyer vehicles.
Fab’s 2005 acquisition of AFV FleetService has allowed it to expand to en-gine installations.
Fab/AFV is partnered with AllianzSweeper and Southern California Gasto produced the first Cummins CNG
powered Freightliner M2. In a demon-stration project funded by Pacific Gas& Electric (Booth 818) and the Mon-terey Bay Unified Air Pollution Con-trol District (MBUAPCD),
AFV also recently installed the firstEmission Solutions, Inc. (Booth 613)Phoenix NG 7.6L Natural Gas Enginein California. The ESI pilot vehicle isa 2002 International 4400 DumpTruck belonging to the County ofMonterey.
The AFV facility in Fontana isacross from the California Speedwaywith amenities including on-site CNGfueling capability, six 60-foot servicebays, and a 5,000-sqare-foot partsroom—stocking all types of NGV andfueling hose related service parts in-cluding John Deere service compo-nents. To go along with the newfabrication department, the companyhas also opened a state-of-the-art paneland hose assembly shop complete witha high pressure test bench.
Scott Lucero is AFV Fleet ServiceGM. Ron Eickelman is Fab president.
AFV Fleet Service Is CC06 EmphasisAs Fab Branches Beyond Fuel Systems
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