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ACT Expo–The Alt Fuel World Is Here Ryder Orders New Types Ryder System has placed an order for 20 China-chassis trucks from Greenkraft, and 19 DuraStars from Navistar International. —Page 3

Shell Oil at the Alt Fuel Show Energy giant plays it close to the vest, but is answering questions.

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Toyota Shows RAV4 EV The battery car is a collaborative effort with Tesla, and a prestigious California dealer tells F&FST how he’ll sell it. The strong-selling Prius plug-in is here, too. —Page 8

Clean Energy Is Building Volumes were well up in 2011 and should go higher as fueling stations proliferate. —Page 11

Coalition for Clean Air CEO Joe Lyou, Freightliner product marketing segment manager Greg Treinen, and Daimler Trucks marketing and strategy GM David Hames outline plans for the LA to DC on CNG trip which begins here today.

Freightliner’s Going Cross-Country on Gas A Freightliner Cascadia 113inch BBC day cab equipped with the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G heavy-duty natural

gas engine takes off from ACT Expo this afternoon, headed east on a CNG-fueled, crosscountry tour.

Linde Steps It Up in LNG Compact fueling is one project, another is LNG for drill sites – a largely untapped market. —Page 14

Parker Taps Wells Fargo Bank’s Equipment Finance arm will help fleets deploy Autocar E3 trucks with Parker’s RunWise hydraulic hybrid drive. —Page 18

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Fun at the Clean Fuel Show Mansfield Gas Equipment’s Mario Pirraglia and Steve Trimble are talking business at ACT Expo, too.

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“We wanted to show the status of natural gas infrastructure,” Daimler Trucks marketing strategy GM David Hames said here Wednesday. The truck will stop at roughly 700- to 750-mile intervals to fuel – “entirely on public fueling stations.”

The first fueling stop is a Trillium fueling station in Anaheim.

The tractor is pulling a 53-foot trailer with a 30,000-lb. load of paper for a recycling plant near Washington, D.C. First leg: Long Beach to Phoenix, via the I-10. Freightliner is located at Booth 633.

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This Morning Will See More Focus on Money

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All the new gear is great, but in the real world, it comes down to costs and cases – business cases – and Return on Investment.

That’s why this morning will see more focus on money at the ACT Expo conference, with explication of innovative finance and lease programs that are speeding deployment of heavy duty natural gas vehicles, battery electrics, and hydraulic hybrids.

Ryder System launched a breakthrough initiative to offer natural gas-fueled trucks for lease last year. Greg Swienton, Ryder chairman and CEO, will describe the effort (which covers hybrid electrics as well, and involves key publicThe money’s at the wheel: Enova Systems president and CEO Mike Staran (on ground) with CFO John Micek. Enova supplies the electric drivetrain for private partnerships) as he delivFreightliner Custom Chassis Corp’s pure-battery walk-in van – available via ers the morning keynote address the two firms’ innovative new Green for Free finance initiative. at 9:45.

Scott Perry, the supply management VP charged with implementFreightliner Custom Chassis Mike Stark, senior technical sales manager at ing Ryder’s Flex-to-Green initiative, Corp and California electric drive FCCC, will describe the program at the Funding will talk about it at the Funding and supplier Enova Systems have a and Financing session. new program called Green for Financing: Business Cases for Fleet Olen Hunter, director of sales at Paclease, Ryder’s Greg Swienton Deployment session at 10:45.

Free, whereby operators daunted the leasing arm of Kenworth and Peterbilt parby the upfront cost of batteries can field all- ent Paccar, will explain how leasing principles electric vehicles with the batteries paid for by may be leveraged to offset the incremental costs. fuel savings.

Paclease has placed LNG-fueled heavy duty Green for Free is “the first program that will Class 8 Kenworth T800 tractors with companies eliminate the overall incremental costs associ- including Salt Lake City-based C.R. England, ated with buying and operating an all-electric the nation’s largest refrigerated carrier.

Publisher vehicle,” the two said in November. Payback is Shaunt Hartounian of the Clean Energy Fuels Kirk Fetzer 415-385-0987; Kirk@CTNPublishing.com to take far less time than the vehicles’ anticipated national truck team will discuss his company’s Editor lives of at least six and possibly even 15 years. new financing partnership with Navistar.

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Ryder Adding International & Greenkraft Ryder System announced natural gas trucks for lease and rent with an order for more than 202 Freightliner and Kenworth vehicles at ACT Expo 2011. Now it’s expanding the program with an order for nearly 40 more dedicated natural gas trucks: 19 International DuraStar 4300-series vehicles with 7.6-liter spark engines by Emissions Solutions, Inc. and 20 China-chassis vehicles from Greenkraft with 6.0-liter GM engines. Greenkraft (Booth 351) is to deliver them in November.

The trucks will range in GVW from 26,000 to 33,000 pounds, and are to be deployed in Southern California’s Sanbag area by the third quarter, says Ryder supply management VP Scott Perry. The straight trucks mark a pro-

gram departure, he says, as they are lowermileage vehicles than the initial tractors.

Sanbag is the San Bernardino Associated Governments, which helped fund the initial $38.7 million Ryder project with the support of ACT Expo organizer Gladstein, Neandross & Associates. Ryder CNG trucks have also been put to work by Budweiser distributor Golden Eagle in Arizona (with Trillium CNG for fueling), and by the recycler UBCR in Michigan.

Next? “We’re continuing to explore other vehicle classes,” says Perry. And regions: watch for Ryder natural gas rentals in Northern California soon.

GNA is at Booth 100. Trillium CNG is at Booth 101.

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Shell Oil Investigates LNG for Trucks “It’s better to do it right the first time,” says Shell analyst Jason Tolliver, who is explaining why, despite all the hullaballoo and hubbub, the energy giant is taking its time in alternative fuels.

“We don’t want to have a knee jerk reaction,” he says.

At Booth 217, Tolliver and other shell executives are talking about Shell’s venture into LNG fueling for trucks, announced last year in collaboration with Shell Flying J truck stops in western Canada, Shell’s Jason Tolliver with partners including Westport outlines Shell’s capabilities in alt fuels at Booth 217.

Innovations (Booth 245).

Shell – an ACT Expo Platinum Sponsor – is looking to do a similar demonstration in the U.S. Shell pledged to build a new LNG plant at its Jumping Pound gas processing facility in Alberta for 2013, and said it would supply the cryogenic fuel, beginning next year from thirdparty sources, at select Shell Flying J truck stops in Alberta.

Shell’s LNG commitment “signals a very important step for a significant North American resource,” Shell Oil president Marvin Odum said in a release.

“As a result of this initiative, we believe the use of natural gas as a fuel for transportation will accelerate,” said Westport CEO David Demers.” The North American launch is an important first step with Shell and we look forward to the continued proliferation of our advanced technology products and integration services.”

Westport said it will collaborate with Shell to develop industry standards for LNG as a new transportation fuel. Shell LNG and gas monetization VP José-Alberto Lima termed LNG a destination solution in the transportation fuels space.

Shell Flying J is a joint venture that pre-dated Flying J’s merger with Pilot. It operates seven travel centers in Canada.

Bosch Promotes Clean Diesel Robert Bosch, LLC (Booth 655), one of a gasoline engine. It has lower emissions the world’s largest automotive suppliers, because of faster heat-up of the exhaust gas, known for its dominance in the devel- and potential for zero-emission operation, opment, engineering and production of Bosch claims. The study targeted the lowhigh-precision diesel technology, is here load areas of a diesel engine map, which are touting its diesel hybrid-elecleast efficient. tric vehicle technology.

The system is already avail“I want to advertise the able in a Peugot 3008 SUV diesel engine as the way to crossover passenger vehicle go to reach very high fuel sold in Europe. Hoyler says efficiencies,” Andreas Hoyler the company sees its potentold F&F Show Times. Diesel tial in the commercial vehicle market, too, in most any size, is real technology that’s here but with a sweet spot in lighttoday, he says.

Hoyler, who manages the and medium-duty applicaDiesel Systems Engine and tions. It’s up to the customer, Andreas Hoyler Emissions Laboratory for he says.

Bosch’s Michigan-based North America “When customers approach us with operations, presented test results on its par- their strategies, we support them with what allel strong hybrid single clutch powertain we have.” Different customers have difin a session here at ACT Expo. ferent demands, setups and architectures, Bosch tested the hybrid powertrain he adds, noting that Bosch can provide system on a European passenger car plat- a strong support role or simply deliver form using the NEDC, new Euro drive components. cycle. The 1.6-liter diesel engine, 6-speed Bosch is also working on waste heat automated manual transmission, 25-kilo- recovery systems that turn high quality watt integrated motor generator, and exhaust heat into usable power. Hoyler says 1.5 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery deliv- such systems would make sense in class 8 ered a 20% fuel consumption reduction trucks. The company also is working on a on top of the roughly 20% improvement compressed natural gas fuel injection systhe diesel engine provides, compared to tem for commercial vehicle engines.

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Carrier sales VP Glenn Pochocki with BAE’s Larry Fuehrer and John Hroncich

BAE-Crane Carrier Hybrid Refuse Truck BAE Systems and Crane Carrier are showing a hybrid electric refuse truck at Booth 941) that’s about to begin working trials. The truck will first be tested with Los Angeles carters, before going to Seattle this summer and elsewhere in the U.S. later in the year.

The real-world refuse collectors “will be working with us to validate the fuel efficiency claims,” says Crane’s Glenn Pochocki. According to BAE, fuel economy improvements could amount to 30%.

The truck has a new parallel version of BAE’s HybriDrive system. The series version powers more than 3,800 transit buses worldwide. BAE uses power-dense Remy motors and an off-the-shelf Caterpillar CX transmission that allows the drive to be installed in a wide range of vehicles.

The partners are targeting commercial launch in mid2013 with production commencing in the fall for the 2014 model year.

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CNGci Adds Type IIs, Branches into CNG Fueling ship is with Amarillo, Texasbased GTM Manufacturing, which has developed a “mother-and-daughter” solution for supplying CNG to off-pipeline locations. The mother station can be a stranded gas well, gas processing plant, or pipeline-based CNG facility, with daughter stations being the point of consumption or sale.

Last, CNGci is adding Emer valves to its line, complementing valves from OMB.

Here at ACT Expo, CNGci is emphasizing Emer’s new Mark 200 high-flow solenoid valve, “catering specifically to truck/ bus applications that require increased flow rates.”

The Mark 200 will be available on the market in the third quarter.

“North America now sits on top of one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world,” CNGci says.

“What’s not to like?”

CNGci’s Randolf Wollgiehn and company president Siggy Rivalta

CNG Cylinders International, which offers large-volume Type III (carbon fiber on aluminum) compressed natural gas fuel cylinders – it’s showing its new 400-liter tank at Booth 125 – has added Type II tanks it says are 25% lighter than all-steel Type I CNG vessels.

The new Type IIs are from WireTough Cylinders of Bristol, Va. They feature a wire mesh wound steel liner.

“The Type II tank has excellent impact resistance and is very

economical,” CNGci says.

And, citing a U.S. market that appears finally to be catching up with world levels of interest in natural gas vehicles, the Malibu-based company has added CNG fueling equipment to its product lineup.

CNGci is publicizing an agreement with WEH Technologies (Booth 140), with products including the TK-17 pistol-grip nozzle for CNG fueling.

Yet another new CNGci partner-

TGT Rides the NGV Wave Tulsa Gas Technologies is showing its well known fueling dispensers for compressed natural TGT’s box has become a best seller. gas Booth 424, where TGT president Tom Sewell told F&FST that he’s been pleasantly surprised by reaction to a new product, a box for CNG tanks in pickup truck beds.

“We’re getting orders for hundreds,” he says.

Designed for model year Tom Sewell, president 2007-2012 Chevy trucks, the of Tulsa Gas Technologies protective tank cover is 62.5 inches wide, by 23 inches high and 22 inches deep. It features an access port to the fuel gauge on the driver’s side.

TGT offers a variety of fueling nozzles for its dispensers, including products from Oasis, of New Zealand.

The dispenser on show here has the TK-17 pistol grip nozzle by WEH (Booth 140).

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Westport LD WiNG for Ford Pickups

Patrick Walsh of Westport LD

Westport Innovations is well known in natural gas vehicles for its 15-liter over-the-road engines and dedicated-natural gas engines via the Cummins Westport joint venture. Now Westport is targeting smaller vehicles, with a goal of nationwide sales, including California, of the WiNG power system on natural gas-gasoline bi-fuel Ford F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks with 6.2-liter gaseous-prep engines, offered by a new unit called Westport LD. Westport LD has a facility in Louisville, proximate to the big Ford plant there, for installing its CNG systems in Ford trucks for ship-through service to selected dealers.

“The trucks will be ready to roll when they reach authorized Ford dealers and the installation will add less than 72 hours to the entire order cycle for a new truck,” Westport says.

The trucks are U.S. EPA-certified this year with California approval for 2013. Westport LD has secured QVM (Qualified Vehicle Modifier) approval too.

Westport has made at least three acquisitions in Europe to bolster its light duty NGV capabilities. And earlier this year it announced a $1.6 million (U.S.) business sale agreement to acquire control technology from Advanced Engine Components (AEC) of Perth, Australia.

Westport LD’s CNG tank suppliers include Germany’s Xperion Energy & Environment and Quantum (Booth 251).

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Toyota Brings Electrics, Cooper Will Sell Them Toyota Fleet Motor Sales is talking up and municipal government fleets. the extended range benefits of its all“Fleet operators have sustainability inielectric RAV4 EV, showing it and the tiatives as a major driver,” Jontig said.

Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at The RAV4 will be sold through select Booth 117. dealers in the Los Angeles/Orange County, Paul Jontig, national manager, fleet San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento sales, tells F&F Show Times the prototype metropolitan markets. The first dealer Long Beach Mayor to fill out Toyota’s dealer agreement is RAV4 EV he’s driven got 100 miles on Bob Foster has a a charge with ease, and the production Wondries Toyota in Alhambra, a member of first-gen, and wants a model unveiled last week the 22-store National Auto Fleet Group. new RAV4 EV. will do even better.

Clark Cooper, national fleet manager, Toyota announced it says he’s surveyed the state’s “We used to have to give away major utilities, and hopes to will provide 2,600 RAV4 EVs, for sale in Califorbring in 350 to 380 orders in tickets and beg people to come nia only, over the next first year. [to these shows], now there’s more theCooper, three years, at an MSRP who has sold a host customers than vendors. That’s a of $49,800, starting this of other alt-fuel vehicles to refreshing change.” summer. Federal and fleets in recent years, observes state incentives will a huge swell in interest in the —Clark Cooper, national fleet manager bring the price down alternative fuels industry that Clark Cooper is reflected in ACT Expo 2012’s sold-out attento about $40,000. a 120V Level 1 “emergency” charger that California independent EV maker Tesla comes with the car and a 240V Level 2, 40A, 9.6 dance. “We used to have to give away tickets Motors designed and produced the battery and kW output charging station sold separately. and beg people to come” to these shows, he said. electric powertrain for Toyota. Leviton is supLike the decade-old first-generation RAV4 “Now there’s more customers than vendors. plying multiple charging solutions, including EV, the new RAV is expected to appeal to utility That’s a refreshing change.”

Venchurs Launches CNG Ford Demo Fleet Michigan’s Venchurs Vehicle Venchurs has shown a bi-fuel CNG search and Systems (Booth 438) is promot- rescue Ford F-250 concept truck proposed for pilot program demonstrations by national park rangers. ing a nationwide short term loaner program allowing fleet managers the company says, making for total range and buyers to test its CNG-fueled Ford of up to 650 miles.

F-250 and -350 pickups.

The 38-year-old company is one “The benefits of CNG are immense, of the first Qualified Vehicle Modiand integrating alternative energy vehi- fiers for Ford, tapping its longtime cles into a fleet is a big decision,” said experience with the OEM to ease the Venchurs sales and marketing VP Terry QVM approval process. QVM status Karges. “We believe that our system means that the original vehicle warranty is so seamless, and the cost/benefit is remains in place. so positive, that most fleet operators “We know that some fleets out there will make the switch after trying one use their vehicles in the harshest of enviof these trucks – so we’re putting them ronments, whether it is off the paveon the road.” ment or in extreme temperatures,” said Venchurs offers both dedicated- Venchurs CEO Jeff Wyatt. “We’ve put compressed natural gas and bi-fuel our trucks through rigorous testing, and CNG-gasoline trucks. The bi-fuel sys- this demo program is important so that tem allows for seamless “on-the-fly” fleet managers themselves can directly switching between CNG and gasoline, see the capabilities these trucks have.”

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Now We Know! Power by Parker Wondering how XL Hybrids will power its fast-payback hybrid electric upfits for Chevy vans?

New motors from Parker Hannifin is how. Jay Shultz of the multifaceted manufacturer shows the shareware at the XL Hybrids display: Booth 557. Parker Hannifin’s RunWise brand hydraulic hybrid drivetrains are at Booth 362, and Finite Airtek filters at Booth 334.

Biodiesel Production Slips

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The National Biodiesel Board late last month reported a first-quarter 2012 EPA production figure of 236 million gallons, compared with a record tally of nearly 1.1 billion gallons for all of 2012 – before the federal tax credit of $1 per gallon was allowed to expire. The organization continues to urge that the credit be restored. Separately, NBB has slated its 2013 National Biodiesel Conference & Expo for February 4-7 in Las Vegas. Booth 449.

Mansfield Helps Expand West Coast CNG

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Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems (Booth 339) has new contracts to design, construct and/or maintain three compressed natural gas stations in California and Washington.

MGES will provide CNG fueling installations to upgrades and modifications California DoT (Caltrans), the Morongo Basin to current equipment and Transit Authority in Twentynine Palms, Calif. infrastructure. and Avista Corp in Spokane, Wash. Two will be “We’re excited by the new fast fill and/or time-fill fueling stations and activity we’ve seen over the the third is an upgrade. Work on all three is to past several months in the begin in the next three months.

CNG industry,” said MGES The Caltrans contract covers two time-fill president Larry Ozier. fueling stations in Banning and Lake Elsinore.

“More companies and MGES sales and marketing VP Mario Pirraglia and business development manager Scott Trimble.

Each will be equipped with two single-hose municipalities are examintime-fill posts to provide vehicles ing the benefits approximately 75 gallons per eveof CNG as a transportation fuel and pump when compared to traditional transportaning. In Spokane, MGES will install are taking the steps to invest in the tion fuels. All three new MGES sites are to open necessary infrastructure. a turnkey CNG refueling station by the end of this year. with time-fill and fast-fill capabili“As we continue to grow the MGES uses equipment from suppliers includties on Avista’s main campus. infrastructure,” Ozier said, “CNG ing Ingersoll-Rand, Gardner-Denver, Knox The contract also calls for longis becoming a more viable option Western, Kraus Global, and BRC FuelMaker. term maintenance. for public and private fleets to FuelMaker veteran Mario Pirraglia signed on The contract for Morongo affordably fuel their vehicles.” with MGES late last year.

Basin Transit, which is the third MGES notes that CNG continMGES is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MGES boss Larry Ozier MGES job for the agency, entails ues to trend 30% - 50% less at the Mansfield Oil.

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Mary Nichols: Tell the World What You’re Doing California’s top air regulator urged attendees of ACT Expo 2012 to speak up and tell the world – policy makers, especially – what they’re doing to get advanced clean technology vehicles and fuels on the road.

Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, said legislators will need to reauthorize

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key programs such as AB 118, in the next couple of years. “It will be extremely important that those who have benefited from these programs are able and willing to tell stories of what you’ve accomplished, your needs, and what you’d like to do in the future,” she said.

Without these complementary programs such as AB 118 and the Carl Moyer program, which provide direct rebates to fleet and truck owners and support alternative fuel production and manufacturing facilities, regulators wouldn’t be able to accomplish their goals.

And when it comes to working directly with CARB, which is known as the leading air pollution regulatory agency in the world, she again indicated her door is open.

“I know the array of policies can be confusing and can appear dysfunctional,” she offered. “We

need to hear from you and get your input on how we’re going to get this done.

“I’m hoping… you will continue

to increase the volume of your voices, let the public know what you’re doing and help us do our jobs better.”

GAS for Gaseous Upfits Mark Matijevich and Kim Yoder of GAS are promoting both CNG and propane upfits by Chino, Calif.- and Elkhart, Ind.-based Green Alternative Systems. Booth 828.

PERC Sees Sales Doubling in Coming Year The Propane Education & Research Council (Booth 533) sees a bright year ahead, with an anticipated doubling of sales due to more engine platforms, more certified engines, and more manufacturing resources. That’s the word from PERC’s new director of autogas development, Mike Taylor.

Taylor tells F&F ShowTimes the industry is exploring new niches for propane autogas in Class 7 vehicles, to build on the current market offerings in PERC’s new director of autogas development, Mike Taylor Class 2 through 6 vehicles.

“This will provide us with school buses, vehi- quarter of 2013.

Taylor says this Freightliner system will go cles for propane marketers like cylinder trucks, and delivery vehicles,” he says. In the future is a into a Thomas Built Type C school bus next bi-fuel option with gasoline and diesel. year. “It gives us two of the top three manuPERC worked with Freightliner Custom facturers in the school transportation industry, Chassis Corp (Booth 633) to develop a factory- which is huge.”

The biggest barrier for the industry contininstalled propane (or LPG, for liquefied petroues to be the time it takes to certify engines and leum gas) engine for the medium-duty truck market. FCCC’s S2G was unveiled at the Work OEMs’ product changes. “We’re at mercy of Truck Show earlier this year. FCCC partnered manufacturers and engines they elect to install with Powertrain Integration and CleanFuel in their chassis. Our game plan revolves around USA for the LPG injection module for the the engines they select for certification.”

8.0-liter engine from General Motors (Booth Long term, Taylor says, the industry hopes 108). Expect to see a limited preproduction to overcome those barriers by having propane run of S2G chassis in the fourth quarter of this autogas systems directly installed into OEM year, with full production slated for the first platforms off the OEM assembly line.

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Clean Energy LNG for Trucks Clean Energy Fuels (Booth 659) moved the equivalent of 43.7 million gallons of natural gas fuel in the first quarter of 2012, up 23% from 35.5 million gallons delivered in the same period a year ago.

Revenue for the quarter was $73.6 million, up from $65.3 million for the first quarter of 2011.

And while Clean Energy’s net loss for the quarter was $31.9 million, more than triple the net loss for the first three months of 2011, the firm said it’s girding for the future, emphasizing its investment in liquefied natural gas for fuel-thirsty over-the-road trucks: “We are diligently working on building out America’s Natural Gas Highway,” says president and CEO Andrew Littlefair.

The Chesapeake Energy-supported ANGH initiative is to see 70 truck stop LNG stations in place this year, mostly at Pilot Flying J travel centers, and 80 more next year.

“We believe we are approaching an inflection point when these elements all come together, so we are working hard to maximize our lead in the industry and preparing ourselves for anticipated increased volume expansion in 2013 and beyond,” Littlefair said.

Those elements include new engines that are fast bringing truck operators into the fold,

notably the 11.9-liter ISL12 G from Cummins Westport (Booth 239). At the recent Mid-America Trucking Show in Kentucky, “Every major OEM, including Navistar, Cummins, Freightliner, Kenworth, Peterbilt and Volvo, all had natural gas offerings strongly featured in their exhibits,” Littlefair said as he and Clean Energy colleagues detailed the firm’s goals in a conference call on May 7.

Littlefair singled out Clean Energy’s new “wet lease” agreement with Navistar International and its dealers, whereby the incremental cost of a natural gas truck is offset and operators still get significant savings as compared to diesel.

Detailing the progress on the LNG trucks stops, “We’re on pace to have our first corridor, the Texas triangle with stations in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, completed by the end of May,” Littlefair said.

“In the third quarter of this year, we expect to have the Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta corridor, the Chicago to Dallas corridor and the Chicago to Atlanta corridors open. In the fourth quarter, we anticipate opening additional corridors in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast regions of the country…

Chad Lindholm, Jim Harger, and Shaunt Hartounian of Clean Energy Fuels are ready to talk natural gas trucks (and cars and buses and more) at Booth 659.

“We are on track to have 31 new sites completed by the end of the second quarter and have approximately 70 stations completed by the end of this year.”

“By the end of 2012,” Littlefair said, “our network of completed natural gas stations will allow the movement of goods across the country from coast-to-coast and border-to-border.” The deal with Pilot Flying J to site ANGA stations at existing travel centers “will allow truckers to continue to use their normal fueling locations and provide them the same convenience… to which they are accustomed.”

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Buy Our Gas and We’ll Pay for the Truck Navistar International and Clean Energy Fuels this year launched “a comprehensive natural gas strategy” designed to bring more options to operators committing to buy their fuel from Clean Energy.

The once-skeptical manufacturer has further pledged to bring the industry’s “broadest” range of natural gas-fueled Class 6-8 trucks to market.

“We’re convinced that the only alternative fuel in the truck industry today that makes sense both with and ultimately without government incentives is going to be natural gas,” Navistar chairman, president and CEO Dan Ustian told analysts in February.

“Clean Energy will guarantee fuel prices at a significant reduction from diesel for the term of five

years,” Navistar says: “Government subsidies and incentives not required to make the economic model work.”

Clean Energy will cover the incremental cost of the trucks to be paid back as operators fuel at Clean Energy stations. “You get the same lease cost of a diesel truck and get fuel savings too,” says Jim Harger of Clean Energy.

The price spread between diesel and natural gas makes it possible. “There’s more than enough to cover the finance cost and put money Navistar International natural gas DuraStar with 7.6-liter engine by Emission Solutions, Inc. and rail-mounted fuel tank assembly by Agility in your pocket,” Harger told Fuel Systems (Booth 224) with Quantum (251) Type IV CNG cylinder.

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If the spread shrinks over the coming five Navistar says it will leverage “existing inteyears? “I’m taking the risk,” he says. grated vehicle and powertrain platforms [and] offer the broadest range of Class 6 through Class 8 CNG-/LNG-powered vehicles in the category.” The company will continue to offer International DuraStar and WorkStar vocational trucks with the natural gas-powered,

“We’re convinced that the only alternative fuel in the truck industry today that makes sense both with and ultimately without government incentives is going to be natural gas.”

—Navistar chairman, president and CEO Dan Ustian

7.6-liter spark-ignition MaxxForce DT, developed with Emission Solutions, Inc. ESI plans a spark-ignition variant of Navistar’s 13-liter Big Bore diesel. “A lot of their senior management wants them to go dedicated,” ESI president Jim Moore says of Navistar.

Nearer term, Navistar is engaged with Clean Air Power for LNG-fueled ProStar, WorkStar and PayStar vocational trucks powered by diesel pilot injection – aka dual fuel – MaxxForce 13-liter engines. For the regional haul and Class 7 and Class 8 vocational market, Navistar will offer its International TranStar and WorkStar trucks with the 8.9-liter spark ignition Cummins Westport ISL G. Navistar is at Booth 844. Clean Energy is at Booth 659. Cummins Westport is at Booth 239.

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APG Gets EPA Green Light New Leaf Biofuel operations VP Dave Richards, executive VP Portia Smith, CEO Jennifer Case, and plant manager Tyler Case

New Leaf Expands In Biodiesel San Diego-based New Leaf Biofuel has just received a California Energy Commission grant for $512,000 to boost its output of renewable-based biodiesel.

“We are expanding our production plant from 2 million gallons per year to 5 million gallons, and installing a cogeneration system which will reduce the carbon intensity of the biodiesel we produce here,” says CEO Jennifer Case.

New Leaf collects used cooking oil from more than 1,500 restaurants and industrial kitchens and converts it into biodiesel, says CEC, noting that the firm’s customers include the U.S. Navy, and the cities of San Diego, Oceanside and Chula Vista. Other customers include Allied Waste in Chula Vista, and San Diego’s Wherever Limousine.

New Leaf Biofuel is at Booth 104.

American Power Group (Booth 221) reports U.S. EPA approval of no fewer than 55 Caterpillar and Detroit Diesel OUL engine families for conversion to natural gas-diesel dual fuel operation.

OUL stands for Outside Useful Life.

Iowa-based APG (also known by the sobriquet GreenMan, for its GreenMan Technologies parent) promotes its V5000 Dual Fuel Turbocharged Natural Gas system for upfitting older engines to run substantially on natural gas via air intake injection.

The market opener is EPA’s decision last year to grant “approvals” for such engines as compared with the certifications

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“Today’s announcement is a testament to our APG team and the extraordinary effort they have shown over the past several quarters as we worked to complete last week’s $8.2 million capital raise,” APG president and CEO Lyle Jensen said on May 7.

“These approvals include some of the most popular higher mileage CAT and Detroit Diesel engine models on the road today and represent 10 of the top 40 OUL engine families we had identified to pursue in the coming months. We can now begin working with our certified installers, who have cumulatively identified a significant number of customers.”

In addition to trucks, the company is working with LNG-supplier Linde (Booth 129) to retrofit large drill rig engines for natural gas.

Wisconsin natural gas trucking pioneer Paper Transport, Inc. runs a 2008 APGconverted Detroit Diesel DD15 engine in this 2009 Freightliner Cascadia tractor. Note rail-mounted CNG tank by Lincoln (230) – unshrouded for photo.

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Linde Promises Compact LNG Fueling Linde North America is “pre-announcing” new technology, slated for availability in early 2013, for compact liquefied natural gas fueling stations with better control of LNG boil-off.

“ACT Expo provides the ideal opportunity” for Linde ( Booth 129 ) to promote its expertise, says Bryan Luftglass, head of strategic marketing and business development for Linde Energy Solutions.

Linde is making an exception in discussing the new product early.

“We recognize the market needs solutions that can address boil-off challenges as well as streamline the installation and operation of stations,” says Luftglass, citing a 100-year Linde legacy in industrial gases. “We are fully leveraging this capability in the area of LNG,” he told Fleets & Fuels. “We’re currently deploying the system in other geographies and are excited to bring it to North America in the coming months.

“Linde’s decision to make this announcement now is a reflection of our view about its importance and our excitement about its potential to be a game-changer.

A Linde LNG tanker in Altamont, Calif., where renewable fuel for garbage trucks is made from landfill gas in league with Waste Management.

“Normally, we’d wait until a technology is 100% ready, but we recognize that fleets can take a long time to evaluate and decide on significant shifts in fueling,” Luftglass says. “ We w a n t t o g e t in­f ormation out there now to help prospective natural gas fuel customers make those decisions.”

Linde’s new compact permanent LNG fueling station design “minimizes installation time and cost, [and] scales as fleets’ needs expand,” the company says.

Linde builds, owns and operates natural gas liquefiers “at any scale,” using natural gas from pipelines, landfill and stranded gas sources as feeds. The company owns and operates more than 1,000 cryogenic plants worldwide. In conjunction with its Cryostar subsidiary, Linde designs, builds and operates LNG and LCNG mobile and permanent fueling stations.

Just last week, Linde announced a joint marketing agreement with American Power Group (Booth 221) for LNG for oil and gas exploration and production.

The firms “will work together to offer customers a comprehensive solution for the safe, economic and efficient use of LNG in retrofitted dual-fuel diesel engines,” Linde said In January, Linde announced plans for 20 new LNG trucks in California, and it has placed an order for LNG-fueled Kenworth T440s with Inland Kenworth. Kenworth is at Booth 144.

Linde Supplies Hydrogen, Too

Linde supplies hydrogen for zero-emission AC Transit fuel cell buses in Emeryville, Calif.,

Linde is fast gaining experience in hydrogen, too, having recently been proposed for nearly $3 million in California Energy Commission funding for fueling stations in Mountain View and Cupertino.

On May 4, a pressure relief valve malfunctioned at a new Linde installation for fuel cell transit buses operated by AC Transit in Emeryville, Calif. The station, which formally opened April 10 but has been operating since August, has been shut down pending investigation by Linde and other experts. The AC fleet of

Quantum for eDrive and NGVs Irvine, Calif.-based Quantum is showing both electric vehicle and gaseous fuel capabilities at Booth 251 , illustrating its EV prowess with a plug-in hybrid electric Ford F-150 pickup truck, and promoting all-composite Type IV CNG cylinders.

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Both, says Quantum’s new CEO Brian Olson, “provide ideal solutions to fleet operators who are under increasing pressure to reduce costs, while meeting stringent emission criteria and performance requirements.”

The Quantum F-150 PHEV

a dozen zero-emission buses has been idled.

“All things considered, the station’s emergency systems worked as they were supposed to,” AC said. “All equipment and fuel supplies were completely isolated, and all storage vessels were well within acceptable and safe pressure and temperature limits.”

“Based on the information currently available, it appears that all safety devices operated as designed,” Linde said on the day of the venting incident. “There were no injuries and no property damage.”

pickup truck features the firm’s F-Drive parallel plug-in hybrid electric drive. F-Drive allows the truck to run 35 miles on electricity before switching to an efficient hybrid drive mode. Quantum supplies its Q-Drive for the Fisker Karma luxury plug-in.

In April, Quantum disclosed a new purchase order worth $857,000

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for Type IV CNG tanks from a leading natural gas vehicle system integrator. Among Quantum’s previously named tank customers is Agility Fuel Systems (Booth 224).

Quantum just this past Friday announced the resignation of Alan Niedzwiecki and Dale Rasmussen from their positions as president and CEO, and executive chairman.

Via Motors’ Range-Extended eTrucks for PG&E Via Motors (Booth 225) is promoting its plug-in hybrid electric vehicle as a range-extended EV, applying the basic design principle of the Chevy Volt to full-size GM pickup trucks.

As well it might, as former GM vice chairman and “Father of the Volt” Bob Lutz is Via’s principal spokesman.

Via’s principal customer is Pacific Gas & Electric, which has called the Via truck a “game-changing” vehicle that will save money while protecting the environment and curbing oil imports. PG&E welcomed the first “beta” vehicles in San Francisco on March 22.

“We can improve our environment and reduce our operating costs,” PG&E transportation director Dave Meisel said.

Because they’re expected to run primarily on battery power,

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each truck has the potential to pare fuel costs by $2,700 per year, said PG&E senior VP Greg Pruett. Beyond reducing fuel costs and emissions, the “revolutionary” exportable power feature will allow PG&E to reduce customer power outages, he said.

“Electrification is a compelling business case,” said Bob Lutz, the former GM vice-chairman who now sits on the Via board.

“You’re taking fuel out of the equation in the vehicles that we use a ton of it in, in their conventional ‘Father of the Volt’ Bob Lutz form.” in Via pickup for PG&E PG&E will evaluate the Via truck with durability of the eREV (Extended-Range Electric Via’s price is $79,000, which us to become effectively energyVehicle) driveline the “numero COO Alan Perriton said will drop independent,” Perriton said. uno” benchmark, Meisel said. to $69,000 with the first 12 months “It will have a ripple effect PG&E has about 3,500 of the of production and to about $64,000 through the industry.”

The Chevy Volt is being shown pickup type, and buys 400 to 500 “shortly thereafter.” by GM at Booth 108.

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“We are now stepping into a new world...

We are going to install the upfit system at the same place we assemble the truck.”

—John Marshall, senior sales and marketing VP with Utilimaster.

Isuzu displayed a Schwan Foods NPR with propane system by Bi-Phase Technologies at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

Isuzu for CNG and Propane Isuzu Commercial Trucks is venturing into compressed natural gas and propane, tapping Utilimaster to do upfits using 6.0-liter spark engines from GM in its Class 4 NPR HD trucks.

“We are now stepping into a new world,” says John Marshall, senior sales and marketing VP with Utilimaster. “We are going to install the upfit system at the same

place we assemble the truck,” he said at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis this past March.

Here at ACT Expo, Isuzu (Booth 645) is

San Jose-based Wrightspeed is developing a plug-in hybrid electric drivetrain for medium to heavy duty trucks it says can double fuel efficiency, making for payback in just three to five years based on fuel-savings alone – a time span that’s dropping as fuel prices rise.

Wrightspeed (Booth 234) is using small turbines. To demonstrate the system’s any-fuel versatility, it has brought a compressed natural gas-fueled Isuzu NPR HD for this week’s ACT Expo ride-and-drive.

Wrightspeed also has a diesel truck – likewise with C30 Capstone microturbine and high-power, 26-kilowatt-hour Wrightspeed battery pack – as a more conventional demonstrator for “The Route” brand medium duty truck retrofits.

showing a propane system by Bi-Phase Technologies, the Schwan Foods subsidiary that’s outfitted some 10,000 Schwan’s trucks.

More than 5,000 are still in service.

A CNG-fueled Isuzu NPR with Landi Renzo USA (Booth 525) fuel system was shown in Indianapolis.

Now that the Bi-Phase system is being offered to other fleets, Utilimaster will take advantage of some 350 existing Schwan’s facilities for aftermarket service, Marshall says.

Some, he told Fleets & Fuels, will be able to perform conversions of existing vehicles to gaseous fuels. These are to be located near ship-through centers.

The dedicated-propane Bi-Phase system will be available for other vehicles too, says the Schwan Food unit’s John Roberts: a Bi-Phase system for Ford trucks with the 5.4-liter engine is already certified with both the U.S. EPA and in California, he says, with approvals for the 6.8-liter engine for larger trucks like the F-550 coming soon.

Utilimaster is a unit of Spartan Motors, which handles Isuzu vehicles in Charlotte, Mich.

The firm is best known for truck bodies. Elsewhere in the alt fuels world, Utilimaster does bodies for Azure Dynamics, Electric Vehicles International (Booth 627) and Smith Electric Vehicles, Marshall says.

Removing the factory engine, transmission, and differential means that the 400-kilowatt/536-horsepower Wrightspeed drive, with microturbine and batteries, adds no weight – “the Wrightspeed Route does not compromise payload,” the company says. The system nonetheless includes twin 200-kilowatt inverters, and 240-volt, single-phase, and J1772-compliant grid charger. Depending on drive cycle, fuel efficiency could more than double. Because it’s a plug-in, “the Wrightspeed Route allows a significant part of daily mileage to be driven on inexpensive grid

Wrightspeed for ‘The Route’ Plug-In Wrightspeed is using Nanophosphate brand lithium iron phosphate modules from A123 Systems in its packs, which feature a proprietary BMS – battery management system. The battery-only range of The Route is stated as a “conservative” 40 miles.

Wrightspeed has an all-electronic, clutchless system it says recoups far more energy than competing hybrids – 20 times more than today’s commercial parallel drives. Wrightspeed’s proprietary motor boasts four times the power density than the competition, the firm says.

A motor and 2-speed gearbox for each of the drive wheels of a medium duty truck yields a “much higher degree of control and stability,” says senior drive systems engineer Ryan Cash.

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energy while continuing to meet the power expectations of drivers.”

The CNG dem- Twin two-speed gearboxes (one with onstrator is dubbed Wrightspeed motor installed) on Isuzu NPR HD Suzie II as it’s Wright- vehicle – ‘Suzie I.’ speed’s second Isuzu upfit (Isuzu is at Booth 645). Potential component suppliers include Luxfer (138) and Agility Fuel Systems (224).

Wrightspeed plans to expand availability to Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp (633) MT-45 and Workhorse W62 (844) walk-in vans.

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Parker and Wells Fargo for Hydraulic Hybrids Parker Hannifin’s Parker Hybrid Drives Systems has announced a leasing program with Wells Fargo Equipment Finance to help place hydraulic hybrid refuse trucks via select Autocar dealerships in the U.S. Autocar E3 trucks with Parker’s heavy duty RunWise hydraulic hybrid have been shown to reduce fuel consumption by 35 to 50%.

“Many fleets have money appropriated for purchases such as refuse trucks,” says Parker Hybrid Drives Systems GM Shane Terblanche.

“Leasing allows them to better manage their cash flow and the reduction in fuel consumption, brake maintenance and productivity gains can help offset the cost of the technology.”

“Our goal for this leasing program is to provide creative financing solutions for Autocar dealerships to help sell products,” Jeff Sorem, program manager at Wells Fargo Equipment

Finance, said in this month’s Parker announcement. “Financing is a big piece of the customer’s acquisition in today’s market.

Parker states unequivocally that “Autocar refuse trucks equipped with RunWise technology deliver unmatched fuel savings and engine efficiency over all other options for refuse vehicles in the market today” (emphasis added).

“Beyond brake energy recovery capabilities and reduced noise levels, the Autocar refuse trucks commonly demonstrate annual fuel savings of 35-50% with the hybrid drive system, reusing as much as 71% of the vehicle’s braking energy that would otherwise be lost.” That

Fleets in Florida are slashing their fuel bills on Autocar E3 trucks with Parker Hannifin’s RunWise hydraulic hybrid drivetrain.

compares with just 21% for hybrid electric systems, according to Parker business development man Tom DeCoster. Additional benefits include reduced maintenance costs, less engine wear and tear, and extended brake life.

A medium duty version of the RunWise drive is being tested by

FedEx Ground, UPS, and Canada’s Purolator Courier on Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp (FCCC) package delivery vehicles.

Parker Hannifin is promoting its hydraulic hybrid drives at Booth 362. Parker’s Finite Airtek Filtration unit is at Booth 334. FCCC is at Booth 633.

Cornerstone Environmental for BioCNG

SCI for Propane Too Structural Composites Industries veteran John Coursen holds a lightweight (!) toroidal propane tank from its new cccc affiliate Stako,ttttte of Slupsk, Poland. Propane fuel aaaa errrrrwe wwww vessels from Stako represent a new product line for SCI, which is best known for Type III (carbon fiber on aluminum) CNG tanks. SCI was acquired by Type I manufacturer Worthington Industries in 2009, and Worthington industrial products director Wayne Powers, pictured at right, has come over to SCI as alternative fuels director. Worthington bought Stako last year.

Worthington acquired a majority stake in Nitin, a CNG tank manufacturer in India, late in 2010.

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Cornerstone Environmental and its Bio- technology for carbon dioxide removal CNG, LLC unit are opening natural gas and a scavenger system dubbed SulfaTreat vehicle fueling stations based on waste to remove hydrogen sulfide, Michels says. methane – and delivering the fuel at bar- The Janesville facility has compression and dispensing equipment from ANGI Energy gain prices.

A landfill gas-based facility in St. Landry Systems – which happens to have recently Parish, La. opened on March 26 and another, relocated there. using methane from a local wastewater treatIn Louisiana, Cornerstone installed ment plant, opened in Janesville, Wisc. mid- equipment from New Jersey’s Air & Gas February.

Technologies.

Each has a BioCNG 50 purification unit Cornerstone is at Booth 451. ANGI Energy and can produce 250 gasoline gallon equiva- Systems is at Booth 124. lents of CNG per day. Cornerstone’s first installation, at the Rodefeld Landfill, in Dane County outside Madison, Wisc. opened at 100 GGE per day in late 2010 and is being expanded to 250, says VP Mike Michels.

“We’re making biofuel at Cornerstone all three of these projects at Environmental’s under $1 a gallon,” he told BioCNG facility in Janesville, Wisc.

F&F – with the cost of comhas compression and pression included. dispensing equipment from ANGI Energy Systems – BioCNG units employ which happens to have recently relocated there.

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