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2010-Aug-20
| New York MTA Awards New Flyer Order for up to 475 CNG Buses
New Flyer
The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the “MTA”) has awarded New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. (TSX:NFI.UN) (“New Flyer” or the “Company”), a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas (“CNG”) heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buses. This order adds approximately USD $216 million to the current New Flyer backlog.
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2010-Jul-15
| Cleaner trucks with natural gas
US Gasvehicles.com
To avoid another oil spill disaster like BP’s in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama has called for jump-starting a “clean energy industry” to produce wind turbines, solar panels and energy-efficient windows...
Yet these measures don’t address the most significant cause of U.S. oil addiction: 254 million cars, buses and trucks that consume 66 percent of the oil we use, most of it imported at roughly USD 1 billion a day.
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2010-Jun-24
| L.A. Unified School District Orders 130 CNG Buses
NGV Global
The new CNG buses are powered by 8.9 liter Cummins ISL G (compressed natural gas) (250 hp, 280 hp) engines.
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2010-Jun-22
| Daimler Buses North America Delivers CNG Orions to California Transit Agencies
NGV Global
Daimler Buses North America has delivered 25 Orion VII Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) transit buses to four transit agencies in California.
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2010-Jun-16
| [video] CNG Concrete Mixer Truck by McNeilus
US GasVehicles.com
Jerry Blatt, owner/operator of Greencrete Concrete, San Jose, CA and North America's first CNG mixer customer, talks about the reasons why he's looking toward CNG to power his fleet.
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2010-Jun-16
| Montgomery County Announces Green Refuse and Recycling Trucks
US GasVehicles.com
In an effort to help reduce greenhouse gas, help improve local air quality and save money, the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Division of Solid Waste Services (DSWS) has put into service the first 20 of 100 refuse and recycling collection trucks powered with compressed natural gas (CNG).
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2010-Apr-14
| American Fuel - Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles
Center for American Progress
Creating incentives to convert the nation’s heavy vehicle fleet to natural gas would reduce oil use, invest in American energy sources, increase our energy independence and national security, and slash air pollution.
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2010-Apr-07
| Ryder Awarded First-of-Its-Kind Natural Gas Heavy Duty Truck Project Using $19.3 Million in Stimulus Funding
Ryder System, Inc.
Ryder System, Inc. announces that the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) Board has selected Ryder as its fleet partner in a groundbreaking heavy-duty natural gas truck rental and leasing project in Southern California. Ryder will use $19.3 million in state and federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding secured by SANBAG to implement the project. This is the first time that natural gas trucks will be deployed into a large commercial truck rental and leasing operation. As part of the project, Ryder will purchase more than 200 heavy-duty natural gas powered trucks. Both liquefied and compressed natural gas (LNG and CNG) on-board fuel storage systems will be used depending upon the specific type of truck purchased and the anticipated application.
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2010-Mar-24
| Peterbilt Launches Complete Line Up of Natural Gas Powered Vehicles
Peterbilt Truck Company
Louisville, KY (March 24, 2010) – Today, Peterbilt Motors Company announced full production capability of natural gas powered Peterbilt truck Models 384, 365 and 320 at their press conference at the Mid-America Trucking Show.
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2010-Mar-24
| Kenworth Adds T440 Natural Gas Vehicle, Targets Local and Regional Haul, Vocational
Kenworth Truck Company
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 24, 2010 – Kenworth Truck Company today announced the further expansion of its industry-leading green product line with the introduction of the Kenworth T440 natural gas model powered by the Cummins Westport ISL G engine.
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2010-Mar-17
| Quebec's Gaz Metro looks to getting transport trucks to run on natural gas
Metro News
If you want to do something meaningful in transportation, you have to do something about the trucks and the alternative to diesel is liquefying natural gas.
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2010-Mar-11
| Oils For Natural Gas Engines
Truckinginfo.com
Recent announcements illustrate the growing interest in natural gas engines for medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks. In January, UPS announced it was buying 245 new compressed-natural-gas delivery trucks.
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2010-Mar-10
| Fuel for Thought
MSW Management March-April 2010
While you’ve probably noticed the surging interest in the use of natural gas by waste fleet operators around the nation, you may not be aware of just how much of an impact it is having on the industry as a whole, and most particularly some of its largest players.
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2010-Feb-16
| Western Governors urge Congress to incentivize natural gas vehicles
US GasVehicles.com
The Western Governors' Association called on Congress to provide incentives this year for the use and development of natural gas vehicles and NGV infrastructure, which would create jobs, improve the economy, protect the environment and reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.
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2010-Jan-22
| Pickens' natural-gas plan may prove boon to truck builders
Bloomberg News
T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of Dallas-based BP Capital LLC, said converting the U.S. trucking industry to natural gas will benefit manufacturers including Columbus-based Cummins Inc. and Paccar Inc.’s Peterbilt.
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2010-Jan-07
| Trash to Gas: Landfill Energy Projects Increasing
ABC News
Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage.
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2009-Dec-21
| Kenworth Expands Product Line
Kenworth Truck Company
KIRKLAND, Wash. – Kenworth Truck Company is expanding its industry-leading product line with the introduction of the Cummins Westport ISL G natural gas engine for the Kenworth T800 short hood and W900S models.
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2009-Dec-21
| EnCana seeks natural gas highway network
ReportonBusiness.com
One of Canada's biggest energy companies is asking the federal government for $1-billion to kick-start a transformation of the country's highways.
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2009-Dec-15
| Interview with Richard Kolodziej (International Association for NGV)
US Gasvehicles.com
Richard Kolodziej, president of the International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV) and NGVAmerica, talks of the growing support for natural gas and natural gas vehicles (NGVs), current political and legislative policies, challenges and opportunities.
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2009-Dec-02
| Refuse operators open CNG stations in four states
US GasVehicles.com
Leading refuse operators in Florida, New Jersey, Idaho and California have opened new compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling stations to support deployment of their growing fleets of CNG refuse collection trucks.
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2009-Nov-02
| America's Natural Gas Revolution
The Wall Street Journal
The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called "unconventional" natural gas. Some call it a revolution.
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2009-Oct-29
| [video] Fuel of the Future
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer
Natural gas might be a great way to break America's dependence on oil, with Sen. Dan Boren (D-OK).
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2009-Oct-16
| [video] From Refuse to Refueling
Linde and Waste Management team
Linde and Waste Management team up to recover landfill gas and convert it to fuel for refuse collection vehicles
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2009-Oct-05
| [video] Facts About Natural Gas: The Natural Choice.
Spectra Energy
Natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel and an increasingly vital, abundant source of North American energy. Roughly 98 percent of the natural gas we consume in the U.S. is produced in North America. Continued capital investments in North American natural gas infrastructure are more critical than ever. Natural gas is an abundant, domestic, and clean energy resource.
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2009-Sep-25
| Illinois Waste Management Co. Turns to CNG For Fleet
NGV Global News
Groot Industries Inc., the largest independent solid waste management services provider in the State of Illinois, will add 20 new compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks to its garbage hauling fleet by the end of the year.
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2009-Sep-17
| McNeilus to deliver gas-powered garbage trucks to Groot
Waste & Recycling News
McNeilus Companies Inc. says the company is preparing to deliver 20 compressed natural gas-powered garbage trucks to Groot Industries in Chicago.
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2009-Sep-14
| South Coast Air Quality Management District Approves Funding for 483 Natural-Gas-Fueled Trucks To Replace Diesel Trucks for Drayage at Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles
Clean Energy Fuels
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board voted last Friday to approve funding for 483 natural gas-fueled (liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG)) trucks to replace old diesel trucks serving the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, according to Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
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2009-Aug-31
| Peterbilt Announces Availability Of Natural Gas Powered Aerodynamic And Vocational Vehicles
Peterbilt Trucks
DENTON, Texas (August 31, 2009) – Peterbilt Motors Company announced that the company is taking immediate orders for the production of its vocational and aerodynamic vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas (NG). The Model 365 and Model 384 will be offered with the Cummins Westport ISL G and built at Peterbilt’s truck manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas.
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2009-Jun-23
| [video] Cow waste as transportation fuel?
ABC
Could cow waste power cars? That was the question on the minds of scientists Tuesday in Sacramento at the first National Biomethane Summit, where they discussed harvesting dairy methane as a type of bovine fuel.
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2009-Jun-19
| [video] McNeilus CNG trucks - powerful, quiet and reliable
McNeilus via YouTube
McNeilus CNG-powered trucks will reduce your fuel costs and emissions, and help reduce our foreign oil dependence. Featuring Cummins Westport ISL G engines, they are 2010 emissions compliant and run quieter than any diesel on the road today, while being every bit as powerful.
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2009-May-20
| McNeilus delivers natural gas trucks to Seattle companies
Waste & Recycling News
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing recently delivered 144 new compressed natural gas refuse trucks to two companies in Seattle.
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