Compressed Natural Gas
Fleet Roundup: SAE vs. CHAdeMO, Tesla, Waste Industries, Volvo
The battle over DC fast-charge standards heated up at a recent California State Senate public committee meeting. A GM representative asked the state ...
Don’t Board the ‘Fracking Banned’ Wagon
In my last column, I preached patience for those who question the safety of extracting shale gas via fracking. ...
Waste Management Expands CNG Fleet
Waste Management will add 35 compressed natural gas-powered vehicles to its Houston fleet by the end of 2012, the company said, and will soon open ...
Frito-Lay Expands EV Fleet, Adds CNG Trucks
Frito-Lay will purchase 100 all-electric trucks in 2012, bringing its electric fleet to more than 280, and will deploy compressed natural gas vehicles in the ...
Sunny Delight CNG Fleet to Cut 400,000 Gallons of Diesel
Sunny Delight Beverages has put into service a fleet of three compressed natural gas vehicles for distribution in southern California, in markets including Los Angeles, ...
Fleet Briefing: Ford Partners with Dow; CNG for Veolia, Waste Connections and Hertz
Ford Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites to reduce weight in high-volume ...
Leakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’
Failure to reduce methane leaks has the potential to eliminate much, if not all, of the greenhouse gas advantage of natural gas over coal, according ...
The Story of Ethylene: Now Starring Natural Gas
It's a $160 billion a year market you've probably never heard of.
Ethylene, the intermediary chemical compound from which popular plastics ...
What’s the Fracking Problem?
One image in the HBO movie Gasland changed our perception of shale gas: a Pennsylvania resident held a lit matchstick ...
Fleet Briefing: CNG In A Box, Chevy Volt Hiatus, Coca-Cola BioMethane Fleet, VIA eREV for Verizon
GE and Chesapeake Energy have announced a multi-year collaboration that aims to develop and bring to market compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural ...
Best Buy, Veolia, and Others Join National Clean Fleets Partnership
Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia have joined the U.S. Department of Energy's National Clean Fleets Partnership, a public-private partnership that ...
EPA Green-Lights EcoDual Fuel Truck Conversion Kit
EcoDual LLC, a provider of dual fuel conversion systems for heavy duty diesel trucks, has achieved authorization from the EPA to begin installing its systems ...
GE Launches Micro LNG Plant
GE Oil & Gas has announced the development of a liquefied natural gas plant that it says meets the small-scale requirements of powering remote industrial ...
Fleet Briefing: AT&T Orders 1,200 CNG Vans; Waste Management, BAE, Caterpillar
AT&T has ordered 1,200 Chevrolet Express compressed natural gas cargo vans for delivery to its service centers nationwide. General Motors says it is its largest ...
PowerSecure Launches Diesel-Nat Gas Generator
PowerSecure International has introduced a new version of its PowerBlock proprietary generator system that runs on a combination of natural gas and diesel fuel and ...
Ryder Cuts Direct, Indirect GHG Emissions
Ryder System's direct GHG emissions fell two percent in 2010, from 470,481 metric tons to 461,828 metric tons, and were down 18 percent on ...
ACEEE Report Sees Rapid Growth in Home Efficiency Programs
There has been a rapid growth in the number and budgets of natural gas energy efficiency programs for U.S. homes, according to a report by ...
IMW Launches Mobile CNG Fueling Station
IMW Industries, a subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., has launched a new self-contained, mobile compressed natural gas fueling station designed for small to mid-size vehicle ...
Nissan Aims to Cut CO2 20%, Up Efficiency 35%
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is aiming for a 20 percent per vehicle cut in its operational CO2 emissions by 2016, compared with 2005, under ...
Green Fleets Briefing: Chrysler Biofuel Deal, EV Cyber Attacks, States Eye Fuel Rules
Chrysler and ZeaChem Inc. have entered into a memorandum of understanding aimed at accelerating the development and market adoption of advanced cellulosic ethanol. Through ...
