The low-entry MB Econic CNG enters service for Veolia, in Sheffield.
Sheffield City Council and Veolia Environmental Services, the Council’s recycling and waste management contractor, have launched the country’s largest fleet of gas-fuelled vehicles today, states a company press release. The ten recycling and waste collection lorries — low-entry Mercedes Econic CNG vehicles — will run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
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Together, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the California Energy Commission (CEC), and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) will invest up to USD 13.5 million to support the development of natural gas engines and vehicles.
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Hardstaff Dual-Fuel technology substitutes 70% of diesel fuel with natural gas.
The Hardstaff Group’s launch and roll-out of its dual-fuel injection diesel and CNG (compressed natural gas) system won the Innovation for Sustainability title at this year’s Lord Stafford Awards in the UK. The awards recognise and encourage the development of collaborative relationships between businesses and universities.
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Belgium is improving natural gas fuel highway connections with its neighbors Germany and the Netherlands, through the activities of Dats24, a subsidiary company of the Colruyt Group. Two of its planned four unmanned CNG refuelling facilities have been opened this year, in the Antwerp port region, and two more are planned for completion by the end of 2010. Additionally there are plans for another four stations in the near future, according to mobimix.be.
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Ford E-Series Passenger Van
Landi Renzo USA Corporation (Landi Renzo) has announced development of a 50 state CARB certified dedicated CNG system that will be available on the 2011/12 gaseous prep 5.4L Ford E-Series Cargo and Passenger Van in the first quarter of 2011. Andrea Landi, North American President Landi Renzo USA is quoted as saying the company hopes to open the market by reducing installation costs for customers while matching Ford’s practices in engineering and calibration.
Germany’s government has outlined its new long-term energy strategy for the promotion of natural gas and biomethane as a fuel for vehicles. Under the title of “The Challenge of Mobility”, the government clearly states: “The Federal Government supports the growing sales of natural gas vehicles”. It plans to continue indefinitely the tax concession for natural gas as part of its drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reports erdgas mobiel eV.
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Vox's LNG refuelling station means lower emissions for goods transport. (Photo: D-TV.nl)
Vos Logistics, together with Mercedes-Benz Nederland, LNG Europe, Van Gansewinkel and Indox CryoEnergy Spain, has taken the initiative to enable trucks in the Netherlands to run on environmentally friendly LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). The group has collaborated on the first LNG filling station in mainland north-west Europe, which has been officially opened by Pieter Hofstra, chairman of the Dutch national transport association, Koninklijk Nederlands Vervoer.
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STX Norway Offshore has entered into three separate contracts in recent days to build LNG-powered platform supply vessels (PSVs). Two of the contracts, with Island Offshore and worth approximately NOK 900 million (USD 148.2 million), will be for Romanian-built hulls outfitted in Brevik, Norway, for delivery in Q2 and Q3 2012. The other hull, also to be constructed in Romania, will be outfitted in remote Aukra, Norway and delivered to Olympic Shipping in Q1 2012.
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The 'Bit Viking' will be converted to LNG powered propulsion.
LNG conversion qualifies vessel for lower NOX Emissions tax
Finland’s Wärtsilä Corporation, a ship power solution provider, has signed a turnkey contract with Tarbit Shipping of Sweden to convert a product tanker to LNG propulsion, and to supply the ship with a Wärtsilä LNGPac system for the storage of LNG onboard. This is the first order for a Wärtsilä LNGPac system.
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Green Dragon Gas, an independent CBM gas producer and distributor and seller of wholesale gas in China, has entered into a binding agreement to add 25 new vehicle refuelling stations in 7 districts in Henan Province. The acquisition cost is USD 15 million, with each station expected to cost a further USD 500,000 in construction related expenses.
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For more than 25 years, Compac’s world class CNG dispensers and dispenser technology have set the standard in secure and reliable CNG refuelling. With industry leading technology and products that are designed and manufactured in house, Compac can guarantee quality and product performance.
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Ashok Leyland's H6TI 'H' Series CNG 5.7 litre turbocharged inter-cooled engine
United Kingdom bus manufacturer Optare Group, in a new strategic partnership with India’s Ashok Leyland Ltd since July this year, is considering the addition of Ashok CNG engine technology to its wide range of EcoDrive low carbon power solutions. Already offering green bus power solutions including biomethane, Optare wants to add the EcoDrive range for European markets, where the availability of CNG makes the fuel an attractive low carbon option.
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Renault Premium Distribution NGV RCV
Renault Trucks is upgrading the natural gas version of its Premium Distribution model. Plans are also underway to similarly upgrade the Midlum NGV range. Renault’s Premium Distribution is available in France, Spain and Switzerland and will gradually be introduced in the other European countries.
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Team biogas.se VW Sciroccos are serious podium contenders in the 2010 STCC.
Biogas fuelled Sciroccos too fast! Handicaps imposed.
Despite tough conditions in the Danish Jyllandring on September 4-5, Team biogas.se, driving biogas fuelled VW Sciroccos, retained it position as leader of the STCC’s team championship. Best individual performance in the event was by Fredrik Ekblom, with two fifth places, enough to reinforce his third place in the driver’s championship and close the gap on second to just 27 points. The outcome is all the more remarkable because of an additional 60 kg and reduced turbo boost pressure by 0.05 bar imposed for this seventh of nine events by race organisers.
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Foton L40 CNG transit bus
Foton America, based in Brookfield, Connecticut, has delivered it’s 40’ CNG-powered low-floor transit bus to the Altoona Bus Research and Testing Center at Pennsylvania State University on August 31st, 2010. The testing facility is responsible for the operation of the Federal Transit Administration’s new model bus testing program.
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