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Green Truck-Work Truck 2013 Propane Trucks for the Propane Delivery Business Here for the first time is a propanefueled truck with a propane fuel tank for delivering commercial propane.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard stopped by the DoE Clean Cities booth yesterday.
Allison Hybrid Truck Drive Allison Transmission has launched its H 3000 drivetrain for trucks. —Page 5
Go to Bed with BAF
Chrysler CNG Success Ram 2500 CNG model was launched here last year; the first of 242 bi-fuel trucks for the State of Oklahoma was delivered yesterday. —Page 6
The Fun Truck Show?
BAF founder and elder statesman Bill Calvert and colleagues in a CNG-gasoline bi-fuel F-250 on display by Ford (Booth 3139). Note that the bed is fully available – the truck has been engineered for the compressed natural gas fuel tank to fit underneath, even with the vehicle’s factory gasoline tank left in place. With Mr. Calvert are BAF’s Lauanna Recker and Eme Porlai. BAF is in bed with Utilimaster too on Ford’s B-59 strip chassis. —Page 9
Bauer Gets You Started Virginia-based Compressor manufacturer has a range of selfcontained units that allow even small fleets to get started with their own CNG fueling. —Page 7
3M’s New CNG Tank
Materials technology enables a fuel cylinder that’s lighter and cheaper and as such may help pave the way to greater market acceptance of natural gas vehicles. —Page 13
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The Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp S2G was and Greg Zilberfarb of PERC shown as a prototype chassis at the Work Truck Show last year; this year it’s a full blown delivery vehicle, outfitted with an 8.0-liter GM engine – modi- Council – which helped pay for development of the truck fied by Power Integration for dedicated propane autogas – at Booth 5691. FCCC is at Booth 4559. Power Integraoperation – by Signature Truck Systems of Clio, Mich. tion is at Booth 2453. New Eagle (5961) helped with the It’s being shown by the Propane Education & Research engine controls.
Like Ice Cream? You’ll Like Isuzu Isuzu Commercial Truck of North America is giving away Schwan’s ice cream from a propane-powered Schwan Foods truck at Booth 4747. Schwan’s subsidiary Bi-Phase Technologies outfits the vehicles using its own system – and has done more than 5,000 of them. Beyond the ice cream, Isuzu is showing an NPR HD chassis with dedicated-compressed natural gas upfit – newly available for ship-through by Utilimaster in Charlotte, Mich., with a fuel system by Landi Renzo USA. The vehicle has twin 21-gasoline-gallonequivalent CNG fuel tanks for a 42-GGE total.
John Roberts of Schwan Foods subsidiary Bi-Phase Technologies with Mark Bentley, executive director of the Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition (Clean Cities Booth 3605)
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3M Company 5658
Greater Indiana Clean Cities 3609
A123 Systems Inc 5562
Powertrain Integration 2453
Green Alternative Systems 4593
Propane Education & Research Council 5691
GreenRoad 5680
Ram Commercial 1001
Hamsar Diversco Inc 5471
Reading Truck Body, LLC 3059
All Power Supply 5541 Allison Transmission Inc 4777 Altec Industries 5661 Henderson Products Inc 4547
Remy Inc 5453
American Power Systems Inc 5296
Hino Trucks 4139
ROUSH CleanTech 5099
Arctic Fox LLC 3680
IMPCO Automotive 5681
RSC Bio Solutions 5468
AT&T 5446
InterMotive Vehicle Controls 3027
Rumber Materials Inc 5470
Auto Crane Company 1121
Ryder Transportation Inc 5448 International Truck 3859
Auto Meter Products Inc 2451
Siemens Industry, Inc 5570
AUTOCAR Industries 2001
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc 4747
SmartDrive Systems Inc 5886
BAE Systems 5571
Kenworth Truck Co 1401
Smith Electric Vehicles 5479
Bauer Compressors Inc 5676
Knapheide Manufacturing Company 3739
Sortimo NA 4038
BrandFX Body Company 4981 Brenntag 5770 C.E. Niehoff & Co 4477 CALSTART 5459 Chevrolet & GMC Commercial Truck 1835
Leggett & Platt Commercial Vehicle Products 1421
Sun Power Technologies 610 SwapLoader USA Ltd 4487
Field of Green There are green truck options across the entirety of Work Truck Show 2013. Enjoy, and Learn!
Clean Cities - U.S. Dept. of Energy 3605
Lincoln Composites Inc 5581
CNG Source Inc 5469
Littelfuse CVP/Cole Hersee 832
Cummins Inc 901
Mack Trucks Inc 3529
Daimler Vans USA LLC 4959
Maxwell Technologies 814
D-Brake LLC 628
Miller Electric Mfg Co 2421
Delco Remy 5451
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America Inc 5159
Eaton - Roadranger 4039 Mobile Power 5678 ECHO Automotive 633 Morgan Corporation 4159 Efficient Transportation Solutions 630
NAFA 724
Fiber-Tech Industries Inc 5554
National Biodiesel Board 5291
Ford Commercial Truck 3139
New Eagle 5961
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp 4559
NexTraq 5890 NGVAmerica 5579
Freightliner Trucks 4659 Nissan North America 1437 GE Capital Fleet Services 3577 NTEA 3401 Go Power! by Carmanah Technologies Corp 5764
Odyne 5566
GPS Insight 5959
Peterbilt Motors Company 1825
Syn-Tech Systems Inc/ FUELMASTER 2529 Telogis Inc 5091 Terex Utilities 5365 Transglobal Door 4387 Trillium CNG 5660 Utilimaster Corp 4647 Vanner Inc 5577 Van’s Electrical Systems 4185 Venchurs Vehicle Systems 645 VIA Motors, Inc 5671 Vulcan On-Board Scales 5371 Webasto Thermo & Comfort North American Inc 2409 Westport 5199 Wilcox Bodies Ltd 2135 Wrightspeed Inc 833
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Work Truck 2013 Walkabout Green Truck Summit keynote speaker and Altec chairman and CEO Lee Styslinger made the rounds of the 2013 Work Truck Show with Pat Davis, manager of the Vehicle Technologies in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy office, and Ron Schoon, executive manager for partnership development with DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado. National Truck Equipment Association government activities director Mike Kastner was among the tour guides. The party stopped by Altec’s Booth 5661, where product manager Mark Greer explained green initiatives including Altec’s JEMS (for jobsite energy management system) aerial lift, which operates on battery power. The lifts reduce engine idling, which saves fuel and reduces emissions while making for a quieter, more congenial and safer work site. Alabama-based Altec last year opened a
Odyne (Booth 5566) uses equipment from Allison (which Dalum said invested in Odyne this past June) and lithium batteries from Johnson Controls. A 28-kilowatt-hour battery pack can put out 10 kilowatts or even 14 kilowatts of export electricity, Dalum said, enough to power compressors for jackhammers. The power takeoff feature is powDoE’s Pat Davis, Altec CEO Lee Styslinger, and NREL’s Ron Schoon erful enough that truck outfitters can with Daimler Trucks North America president Richard Saward (right) eliminate a conventional generator entirely. “You can remove an engine and all the maintenance associated with it by Karney explained about GM’s dedicated-CNG using this battery system,” Dalum said. vans and CNG-gasoline bi-fuel pickups, for Odyne systems are available for both new which a new body style will be available in the vehicles and retrofit. coming weeks. Knapheide VP Chris Weiss On to the big Freightliner-Freightliner explained how his firm saves weight by using Custom Chassis Corp display (4559/4659), where advanced materials and better overall designs Daimler Trucks North America president Rich- – with alternative fuels as an upfit option too. Last but not least, NTEA executive director ard Saward told the DoE officials, “No matter Steve Carey summed up the state of alternative fuel vehicles in March 2013: Fleet managers are asking real ROI questions about AFVs, he said, and “They’re becoming very deployable.”
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42,000-square-foot assembly facility in Dixon, Calif. at the behest of the Pacific Gas & Electric utility, a key customer. PG&E said just last month that it will add 127 bucket trucks with battery-powered Altec aerial lifts during 2013, augmenting 320 in service. “By 2017, the utility plans to have over 700 e-WIMS trucks in its fleet,” said PG&E transportation services director Dave Meisel. The Altec JEMS reduces idling and provides engine-off power for tools, but doesn’t affect how a truck drives. “We focus on both,” said Odyne president Joe Dalum, who described his company’s plug-in hybrid electric drivelines for trucks. 4
what the application, we think natural gas has a fit.” Among the vehicles shown for the first time here was a dedicated-CNG Freightliner M2 112 outfitted with a Johnston sweeper body. Timco and Elgin use the chassis for sweepers too. The DoE party got a preview of Ford’s announcement of new Transit cab and cutaway vehicles, all to have alternative fuel capability. “We’ve got eight different vehicle platforms that we can modify,” said Ford alternative fuels strategist Jon Coleman. “It doesn’t matter what alternative fuel the customer is interested in,” he said. “We have a van for him.” GM alternate energy sales director Mark
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Allison Enters Hybrid Trucks, Following Its Success in Buses Allison Transmission announced its entry into the commercial hybrid truck and shuttle bus markets here yesterday with the unveiling of its hybrid-electric propulsion system. Essentially an add-on hybridization of its current fully-automatic 3000 series transmission, the new product is targeted at medium- and heavy-duty trucks in distribution, refuse, utility and shuttle applications. Production will begin later this year, and talks are under way with OEMs and potential customers, said Laurie Tuttle, Allison hybrid programs VP. Fuel savings are expected to be 25%, she said. The fully-automatic parallel hybrid propulsion system is of the regenerative braking kinetic energy recovery type: it captures electricity as the vehicle brakes, stores it in batteries, and then uses it to assist propulsion or power other functions. The main components are a motor-generator by Remy International (its high power-toweight ratio HVH 4210 model), lithium ion prismatic cell batteries by Delphi Automotive
Systems, and power controllers, inverters and DC-to-DC converters. The battery packs are modular, allowing an operator to choose up to four packs per vehicle to match storage capacity with specific vehicle or duty cycle. “An operator doesn’t have to buy too much capacity,” Tuttle said. All the hybridization is outside the Allison 3000 transmission, keeping down costs and complexity, she said. In the same vein, the electronic controllers and battery packs are scalable, with the former being designed for a family of hybrid transmissions with minimum development costs. The controllers include automatic loadbased shift sensing (the vehicle changes gear without dropping engine revs), and vehicle acceleration control will be offered as an option. Prognostics are also built in, helping to avoid unnecessary maintenance.
The H 3000
For the technically minded, the motorgenerator can provide peak torque of 571 lb-ft from 0-1,300 rpm, or peak power of 134 horsepower, limited by the inverter. It is cooled by Allison’s TranSynd cooling system, which lowers operating temperatures. Nestled into the motor-generator is the engine-disconnect clutch. The packaging allows a power module just 11 inches long. The batteries have an energy capacity of 1.6 kilowatt-hours per 50-kilowatt pack, and a typical 100-kilowatt system will use two 50-kilowatt packs. The new hybrid transmission can be seen on Booth 4777, and the development vehicle (a Coca-Cola truck) on Booth 5098. Motor supplier Remy is at 5453.
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Ram Trucks Begins Large CNG Fleet Delivery to Oklahoma The largest fleet customer for Chrysler’s compressed natural gasoline bi-fuel pickup trucks, the state of Oklahoma, took delivery yesterday of the first of 242 on order, the manufacturer said here. The Ram 2500 CNG has now been ordered by 19 states since it was launched at the Work Truck Show just one year ago. Demand has been “fantastic, especially from fleet and commercial customers,” says Ram president & CEO Fred Diaz. The truck was made available for retail sale two months ago. Production of the CNG Ram began in Mexico this last October. Chrysler notes that it is the only CNG pickup truck in North
America built on an OEM’s own production line instead of being converted by aftermarket upfitters. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been a tireless proponent of CNG, and was instrumental in the sales of CNG Rams to other states. “Converting the state’s fleet to CNG will save taxpayers millions of dollars in fuel costs,” Gov. Fallin said. “The use of cleaner-burning CNG fuel is good for the environment and promotes Oklahoma-made natural gas which in turn supports the creation of more Oklahoma jobs. Our multi-state bidding process was aimed at encouraging automakers to provide states with more affordable and more functional CNG vehicles.”
Landi Renzo’s Everywhere Here Landi Renzo USA is the U.S. arm of Italy’s Landi Renzo, the world leader in gaseous fuel systems for light duty vehicles. A dedicated-compressed natural gas fuel system by Landi Renzo may be seen on an Isuzu NPR HD chassis at Booth 4747 – newly available for ship-through by Utilimaster in Charlotte, Mich. The vehicle has twin 21 gasoline gallon equivalent CNG fuel tanks for a 42-GGE total. Landi systems may also be seen on a Ford E-350 van at Leggett & Platt’s Booth 1421, on a strip chassis with GM engine by Green Alternative Systems (4593) on the Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp display (4559), and on a Ford F-550 converted by World CNG at Caseco Manufacturing (2215). There is a Ford F-250 pickup with a Landi Renzo Ross Haith of Leggett & Platt with Gianluca Maso CNG-gasoline bi-fuel upof Landi Renzo USA and Landi sales fit in the Green Truck manager Ryan Waltz and Ford E-350 van Ride-and-Drive. 6
There is significant export potential in U.S. companies helping China address its chronic air pollution through cleaner vehicles, says Calstart, which last year held the first U.S.-China Clean Truck & Bus Forum in Beijing in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The second forum meeting will be in Shanghai later this year. Calstart will hold a workshop on China’s potential here today at 9.30 a.m. in Room 104. Calstart is exhibiting at Booth 5459.
BAE Adds More Hybrid Demos
BAE Systems plans to add another three HybriDrive propulsion system demonstrators by the end of the year, bringing the number of vehicles under test to nine. Most interest has been shown in the parallel hybrid system for refuse collection vehicles. The electrichybrid system uses batteries by Ener1. In January BAE signed a 20-year agreement with Caterpillar to integrate the Cat CX family
of transmissions into its HybriDrive system, and to establish an aftermarket field services model leveraging Caterpillar’s vast global service network to support the growing installed base. BAE Systems is at Booth 5571.
Ford Highlights Guide to Green Vehicles
Confusion is often the norm as prospective truck buyers try to match their vehicle needs with the plethora of “Green” fuel choices now available on the market. Now Ford Motor Co is helping them cut to the quick with a new Alternative Fuels Buyers Guide that covers Ford’s product range and vehicle usage patterns. “It helps them determine what makes the most business sense,” says Rob Stevens, Ford’s chief engineer for commercial trucks. The new Guide – 20 pages this year – covers Ford’s gaseous-prep engines for propane and natural gas vehicles, with fleet case studies and the automaker’s growing line of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, with information about charger suppliers.
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CNG? Bauer Can Help Newbies Virginia-based Bauer Compressors is showing its Micro series for compressed natural gas vehicle fueling, noting ease of installation – Micro units can be driven by single- or three-phase power – and an affordable price: as low as $25,000. “It’s a great compressor for fleets just transitioning into CNG,” says Bauer business development director Paula Hebert. The Micro series CNG system offers multivehicle flexibility, Bauer adds, and is suitable for both time- and fast-fill applications, with a small, convenient footprint. “This system has the highest durability rating, with Bauer Compressor’s unmatched reliability,” the company says. Bauer’s skid-mounted Micro units have aircooled, pressure-lubricated, continuous-duty rated, multi-stage reciprocating compressors. They
include vapor recovery and a gas dryer. Bauer (Booth 5676) has also launched a new “large duty” compressor for small fleets and retail CNG outlets, repackaging its C28 as the C28.0 – or C28.0S with option three-pack ASMR storage tanks. It’s “a package that will easily fit into their existing fueling station at an affordable price,” Hebert says, with “the looks and options suitable for public fast fill applications as well as private fleet applications.” “The smaller footprint, modular Questar Rebuild3 1 7/30/12 attractive design,Final.pdf and great value is a perfect solution for adding CNG.” Both the Mini on show here and the new C28.0 carry a two-year parts and labor warranty.
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Trillium CNG to Add 33 Fueling Stations Trillium, a leading provider of compressed natural gas fueling facilities, plans to add another 33 high-capacity facilities this year to accommodate heavy to light trucks. They will be built in partnership with existing service stations on major corridors between Michigan and Florida, New York and Missouri, and in Texas, according to senior business developer April Dents. The new stations will bring Trillium’s total of CNG fueling stations to more than 1,000 nationwide. The company, now a unit of Integrys Energy, delivered more than 35 million equivalent gallons of CNG last year. Dents says the expansion of the fueling network isn’t any slower than expected “but any incremental growth is a success.” Trillium, she adds, continues to sign up more fleet operators as it adds more stations, but expansion of the industry is awaiting a number of new CNG-powered engines that are coming closer to market. “It’s really exciting, waiting for this perfect storm as everything comes together at the right time,” she says. Trillium CNG is at Booth 5660.
Trillium has long experience in heavy duty CNG fueling installations.
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Roush Dishes Up Propane Fleet Major news at yesterday’s show was the order by Dish Network for 200 Ford F-250 vans converted to dedicated propane operation by Roush CleanTech. The order wasn’t a clear-cut win. It took Dish more than a year to investigate all the alternative fuel options before settling on Roush and propane, said Abe Stephenson, fleet and administration manager at Dish Network. “It was very important to us not to make sacrifices in day-to-day operations with up on site. The first F-250s will begin operations any alternate fuel strategy,” he said. from this summer onwards at two locations each “It was important that we could source fuel in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit anywhere in the U.S., and propane has 2,500- and Atlanta. plus points of distribution around the country; Looking ahead, Stephenson said Ford’s introit was important to buy American; and it was duction of a new Transit next year could make 10 important to save money.” more Dish offices eligible for propane-powered Dish next compared the mileage range of the vehicles. Roush CleanTech is at Booth 5099. propane F-250 with the range requirements of Roush also announced availability of proits 30 offices, and found that 10 locations were pane-powered Ford F-550 and Ford F-59 chasa good fit. The firm had room in their parking sis step van upfits in partnership with Indiana’s Green Alternative Systems (Booth 4593). lots CC to 1/3install Page propane Day 1_CC tanks 1/3 so Page theDay vans1could 2/25/13 fill 2:05 PM Page 1
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New Eagle Soars Behind Gaseous Engine Controls When it comes to solutions, New Eagle is playing an increasing role in helping others develop gaseous fuel engines. The company is best described as a product distributor for programmable electronic, hydraulic and fuel controls, with a design engineering team that develops software to make them work. Its business is split 40% electric hybrids, 20% mobile hydraulics and 40% alternative fuels, says president Rich Swortzel. The chief reason for its success is a rapid prototyping software tool called MotoHawk Toolchain that was developed some 15 years ago by Swortzel and was subsequently bought by Woodward Governor. “We help other people build conversion kits,” says Swortzel, “and often supply the parts.” Its latest achievement was to develop the control system on a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) engine for a Powertrain Integration 8.0-liter 8-cylinder engine (Booth 2453) that uses CleanFuels USA for the traditional gasoline fuel system. New Eagle also provided torque security for electronic throttle control. The first production application is the Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp school bus and medium duty delivery vehicles. New Eagle is at Booth 5961.
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Utilimaster for BAF F-59’s Strip Chassis BAF and Utilimaster are announcing a preferred and exclusive installer agreement by which Utilimaster will handle upfits of Ford F-59 walk-in van strip chassis with natural gas fuel systems from BAF. The two companies are showing a converted vehicle in the Ford Commercial Truck area (Booth 3139). The vehicle has already achieved both U.S. EPA and California Air Resources Board certifications. Under the agreement, Utilimaster “is appointed the exclusive and preferred installer of the BAF Compressed Natural Gas system on the Ford F- 59 walk-in van stripped chassis… “This partnership builds on the Utilimaster strategic vision of offering a full portfolio of alternate fuel and field service solutions,” states a joint announcement to be released today. “Alliances with companies like BAF Technologies provide Utilimaster clients with a professional partnership of project management, engineering and fleet solutions while positioning Utilimaster for long term growth,” said Utilimaster president John Forbes. “The agreement further extends our commitment to offer green solutions that are fieldproven and deliver a strong return on investment.” CNG vehicles provide a 65% fuel savings. Some 90% of the CNG is produced domestically. Utilimaster is promoting “a proprietary alternative fuels program offering that assesses customer needs, formulates the best solution, develops the business case, manages the deployment project plan, and provides product training/support. “Customers also have the option of calling upon the Utilimaster fleet solutions organization to implement additional programs – at any location – that have proven to be best practices in the areas of improved driver productivity, safety, and reduction of cost of operation.” Utilimaster (Booth 4647) is a subsidiary of Spartan Motors, Inc. BAF is a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels.
A New Lincoln Get used to Hexagon Lincoln, as parent Hexagon Composites in Norway has decided on a re-brand across the corporation. Lincoln – we mean Hexagon Lincoln, which manufactures all-composite Type IV compressed natural gas fuel cylinders in Lincoln, Neb. – is at Booth 5581.
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At the U.S. Department of Energy display at WTS 2013 are Clean Cities director Dennis Smith, DoE-EERE vehicle technologies chief Pat Davis, Altec chairman and CEO (and Green Truck Summit 2013 keynoter) Lee Styslinger, National Renewable Energy Lab partnership development manager Ron Schoon, and Clean Cities vehicle technologies deployment manager Mark Smith.
Clean Cities: 20 Years! The U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities organization is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and may be found at Booth 3605 at Work Truck 2013. Watch for even more 20th anniversary at ACT Expo, the Alternative Clean Transportation Exposition in Washington, D.C. June 24-27. —See Page 14
Former Clean Cities director Shelley Launey with George Wendt, aka Norm, at Clean Cities 2004 in Fort Lauderdale (logo below).
A CNG-fueled Freightliner at the 2011 Clean Cities Stakeholder Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)
The Alternative Fuels Data Center began in 1991, a few years before Clean Cities launched, with just a single computer at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. (Photo by NREL)
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Store manager Kyle Krause (left) and Menards spokesman Jeff Abbott (right) cut the ribbon on a newly opened propane fueling station at the Menards store in Hodgkins, Ill, in December, 2012. The station was part of a Clean Cities Recovery Act project supported by the City of Chicago, Department of the Environment. (Photo by Greg Zilberfarb, The Sales Network)
An all-electric truck by Smith operated by National Clean Fleets Partner Staples at the 2011 Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)
2011 Clean Cities Hall of Fame inductees Utah Clean Cities executive director Robin Erickson (middle left) and Twin Cities Clean Cities coordinator Lisa Thurstin (far right) accept their awards with Clean Cities regional manager Kay Kelly (far left) and National Clean Cities director Dennis Smith (middle right) at the Clean Cities Stakeholder Summit in Indianapolis. (Photo by DOE/NREL)
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Westport WiNG’s Broad Bi-Fuel Line Westport LD will begin taking orders on April 1 for its bi-fuel CNG-gasoline conversions of Ford F-450 and F-550 Super Duty Chassis Cab trucks. The firm’s Westport WiNG Power System equipment is installed at WKIC, the Westport Kentucky Integration Center, located near Ford’s manufacturing plant in Louisville for easy ship-through. Plans for the larger Fords were announced in December following word earlier in 2012 that the light duty vehicle arm of Westport Innovations would offer bi-fuel versions of F-250 and F-350 vehicles. Westport’s Ford F-450 is being shown for the first time here – at both Westport’s Booth 5199 and by Ford Commercial Truck at Booth 3139. Westport notes that WKIC is a Ford-audited, Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) facility, and that the new F-450 and F-550 trucks “have undergone the same rigorous testing for safety and durability used by Ford for all its original equipment manufacturer products... The 2013 F-450 and F-550 trucks will use the same integrated transportation system as other Westport powered Ford products to reduce delivery costs
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to the customer.” The trucks have Ford’s 6.8-liter V-10 engine affording Westport’s Ford F-450 rendering with WiNG Power System. a combined range of approximately 650 miles with maximum The larger Fords are said to be ideal for fleets compressed natural gas capacity of 42 GGEs in the natural resource industries, construction, (gasoline gallon equivalents) and a standard delivery, and public utilities, as well as for gov40-gallon gasoline tank. They are delivered ernment and transit operators. Fleets get to use “key-READY,” Westport says, with a warranty a cleaner, domestic fuel with savings between 30 that matches Ford’s. to 60% and “payback demonstrated in as little “The expansion of our product line builds as two years.” upon our proven technology of the Westport Westport works with service body companies WiNG Power System and extends our prod- in Louisville to outfit the bi-fuel trucks for speuct availability to a different end user,” said cific missions: “Many standard configurations Westport LD managing director and VP John exist for bodies with a minimum of 84-inch Lapetz. “With a higher degree of application CA in combination with a tank pack. Custom flexibility and increased gross vehicle weight, bi-fuel configurations can be engineered for the Ford F-450 and F-550 Super Duty trucks virtually any second-unit body with a minimum allow us to grow a solid footprint with custom- order of 10 units,” said senior marketing director ers who were not serviced with the Ford F-250 John Howell. Westport CNG upfits start at $9,500. and F-350 CNG bi-fuel trucks.”
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Frank Johnson and Larry Zepp with Crosspoint Kinetics shuttle.
Nick Magnuski of Freightliner Custom Chassis with propane-fueled S2G truck.
Brian Sutherland with CNG-fueled Freightliner dump truck.
WTS 2013 Green Truck Ride-and-Drive Neither snow nor rain nor heat… OK, no heat. But the snow stopped in the morning and the plowmen did their job, and while the weather was brisk, the clean fuel and advanced technology vehicles were there in force yesterday for the Work Truck Show
2013 Green Truck Ride-and-Drive. Hybrids and natural gas and propane and more. Miss it? The ride-and-drive happens again today from noon until 4:40pm.
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Mike Stark of Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp with hydraulic hybrid delivery van.
Eric Fuentes of XL Hybrids with converted Chevy van.
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Jamie Mitchell of Impco Automotive and Dave Bary of Isuzu NPR-HD converted to CNG.
Ford pickup converted by Venchurs using 3M’s new Type IV CNG tank
3M Weighs In with Weighs-Less Tank Lighter, Cheaper Type IV Unit to Help Eliminate an NGV Market ‘Bottleneck’ 3M – you know they make more than Scotch tape and Post-Its – is here promoting a new compressed natural gas fuel cylinder. 3M has applied proprietary materials technology making for a lighter – and cheaper – fuel container for natural gas vehicles. 3M said last month that it’s successfully completed the American National Standards Institute certification process (ANSI NGV2-2007) for its new CNG tank. It’s a Type IV cylinder – made with carbon fiber over a plastic liner – with the carbon fiber consolidated using a matrix resin material with nanosilica particles to enhance the properties of the costly carbon. The tanks can thus be made with less carbon fiber, for less money. “The fuel tank is the most expensive component to a CNG conversion,” says Kelly Muldoon, director of business development at Venchurs Vehicle Systems. With 3M’s new tank, she says, “we’re hoping to cut our costs and ultimately the price of our conversions, making CNG powered vehicles a more viable option for fleet and retail customers alike.” Venchurs is one of five NGV upfitters 3M has authorized to use the new tank, at Booth 645. Venchurs used a prototype 3M tank to convert a Ford F-250 for display at 3M’s Transportation Summit in Michigan this past autumn.
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3M itself is showing the new nanoparticle CNG tank at Booth 5658. The 21.5- by 60-inch tank is designed for light- and medium-duty pick-up trucks and corporate fleet vehicles. It can hold 23.5 GGEs – gasoline gallon equivalents, 3M says. More sizes are planned. “We are going to be using it in all pickup truck conversions going forward when the application uses a 21.5- by 60-inch tank,” says sales VP Joshua Hosford of Seattle-based World CNG, another 3M-designated upfitter. “The 3M product has more capacity and weighs less than some other Type IV tanks,” Hosford told ShowTimes affiliate Fleets & Fuels. 3M’s new product “is a no-brainer,” says VP Jim O’Donnell of Alternative Fuel Solutions, another 3M designee. He cites cost and usable gasoline gallon equivalent advantages, plus the comfort of having a company the size of 3M behind the product. AFS, of Mahaffey, Pa. has
Echo: a New Hybrid Owners of 2007 to 2013 Ford E-series trucks who feel they missed out on hybrids will get another chance: for $10,000 they can convert their vehicles with a plug-and-play kit from Echo Automotive. Fuel savings of 25-50% will mean a payback in three to four years, Echo said here yesterday in unveiling its concept at Booth 633. Echo is adding a 40-horsepower induction motor between the transmission and driveshaft, hybrid electric controls, an air-cooled inverter, and a lithium ion battery pack in place of the underfloor spare wheel. Plug-in recharging is an option. The kit adds 500 pounds to the vehicle’s weight. The kit can be installed by any competent mechanic, and doesn’t involve removing the engine, said Echo president and chairman Jason Plotke. A demo vehicle with the EchoDrive is participating in the Ride-and Drive here. Customers are signing up for pilot vehicles, and production of kits
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done Ford and GM vehicle upfits using AltechEco, Impco Automotive (Booth 5681), NatGasCar and other fuel systems. “The 3M tank is less expensive than anybody else out there with a comparable tank,” says Bry Granger of AVS, Alternative Vehicle Solutions in Murray, Utah. “It can be up to $500 [per cylinder] cheaper, depending on volume,” he told Fleets & Fuels. “It is also lighter.” “With a tank that will help provide more range and more payload capacity at less expense, CNG vehicles are now an even more attractive alternative for fleet and individual retail customers alike,” 3M industrial adhesive and tapes division VP Mike Roman said in the manufacturer’s tank certification announcement.
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should begin in early 2014. Echo differs in that most of its components are off-the-shelf. Plotke said that although Echo uses the same facilities in Anderson, Ind., and some expertise left over from Bright Automotive, a hybrid auto company that went bankrupt early last year, there is no connection whatsoever between Bright and Echo Automotive. “The facilities were available, as was some technical expertise. “That’s it,” Plotke said.
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New CTAG Marks Refreshed HTUF Focus More than 50 industry stakeholders convened in Pasadena, Calif. last month for the kick-off meeting of CTAG, Calstart’s new Commercial Truck Action Group. The HighEfficiency Truck Users Forum gathering marked a turning point in the HTUF program. The focus is on high-efficiency technologies and top cross-cutting issues versus an initial singular focus on hybrid trucks. Calstart’s aims for the fleets, vehicle OEMs, suppliers, military, policy-makers and other stakeholders who participated in the Pasadena meeting are • to facilitate collaborative, actionoriented, enduring partnerships; • to forge a long-term relationship to evaluate and improve trucks and other commercial vehicles to speed commercialization of high-
Kevin Beaty joined Calstart last year to run the HTUF program.
efficiency technologies; • to rely on input and feedback between the HTUF program and
industry sponsors to help shape the goals and priorities of high-efficiency, cross-cutting collaborations. Attendees received high level overviews about Calstart as a whole from senior VP Bill Van Amburg, and about HTUF’s new direction from Calstart VP and HTUF director Kevin Beaty. Presentations and other materials are available via the Calstart website (www.calstart.org). Stakeholders provided valuable feedback as they discussed and then voted on what they perceived to be the top three technologies with the most potential for efficiencies. The list included combined alternative fuel and hybrid system (CNG/LNG/Biofuel/LPG), hybrid electric, and range-extended electric vehicles and plug-ins. The top cross-cutting issues were specialty
engine certification, reduction of battery life-cycle costs, and expansion of state voucher incentive programs. Calstart is looking for industry engagement to mobilize its expanded focus on high-efficiency vehicles. Activities you can expect to hear more about over the next year include • highly-targeted policy initiatives; • technology deployment and validation; • action-oriented working groups (based on direction being set by CTAG and a new Military Truck Action Group); • regional and national meetings with unique Ride-and-Drive events. Anyone interested in being part of the CTAG is welcome, Calstart says. Calstart is at Booth 5459.
ACT Expo 2013 in Washington Rates are low and coverage is broad at ACT Expo 2013 in Washington in June. The dates are June 24-27 for the 2013 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo, being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and Embassy Suites in Washington D.C. It’s the third year for ACT Expo, which is organized by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA). The meeting coincides this year with the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program. “With more than 3,000 registrants for ACT Expo 2012, the event has emerged as the world’s preeminent alternative fuels conference and exposition,” says Erik Neandross, CEO at GNA. “With the show moving to Washington D.C. this year, the momentum is even stronger. “Don’t miss it.” GNA has released the ACT Expo 2013 conference agenda, comprising a compelling program for transportation professionals looking to invest in alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies. 14
Both vendors and fleet colleagues will discuss how best to successfully navigate the transition to clean alternative fuels. GNA notes too that its conference is cost-competitive, “with rates at half the cost of many smaller industry conferences.” Value registration fees valid through April 30 include just $575 for the full conference – and $225 for fleets. Admission to the ACT Expo exhibition hall June 26-27 is free. “ACT Expo is unrivaled in its ability to provide strong educational content to transportation professionals that are looking to make investments in alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies, GNA says. The just-released agenda has been crafted over several months with ongoing input from a High-Volume Fleet Planning Committee, a Clean Cities Planning Committee, and alternative fuel industry associations. Fleets & Fuels will join forces with Convention and Tradeshow News to publish two live daily Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes news magazines at ACT Expo 2013 too. (www.actexpo.com)
WKIC, the Westport Kentucky Integration Center.
Westport LD at MATS in Two Weeks The Westport LD unit of Westport Innovations, which is promoting its Westport WiNG bi-fuel CNG-gasoline upfits at Booth 5199, is hosting a Natural Gas Now mini-conference on March 19 – just prior to MATS, the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. “Learn from both customers and suppliers why the range of options – from pick-up trucks to locomotives – and benefits of natural gas are greater than ever before,” Westport says. Natural Gas Now will be held at WKIC, the Westport Kentucky Integration Center, where the company converts Ford F-250 through F-550 trucks for compressed natural gas operation. WKIC is adjacent to Ford’s Louisville assembly plant, making for easy ship-through of the Westport NGVs. The Mid-America Trucking Show takes place March 21-23 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
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