Green Truck Summit 2013 March 7, 2013
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
Work Truck 2014! In Indianapolis (as it will be for 2015 and 2016 too): March 4-7, 2014. Sign up with NTEA at Booth 3401.
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Signature Truck Systems president Joe Volk (left)
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)