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Awards Presented at NGV Rome 2010 Closing Ceremony
The IANGV invites nominations for the 2010 NGV Champion awards. Presented every year since 2002 the awards recognise and honour individuals who, by their actions and endeavours, have promoted and inspired the development of a significant NGV program and activity.
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More than 70 speakers
25 poster presentations
Early bird registration March 15th
IANGV and NGV System Italia, hosts for the NGV 2010 conference and exhibition in Rome this June, have released conference program details for the event running from June 8-10. Presented under the theme ‘Creating a Revolution in Transport’ the conference will focus on marketing and strategic successes for the industry with technical aspects also catered for in several breakout sessions during the course of the conference. With industry projecting more than 50 million natural gas vehicles (NGVs) to join the current fleet in the next ten years, the conference is already being billed as a launching pad into the most dynamic decade the NGV industry is ever likely to see.
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The 1st international seminar A Trans-European Road to Renewable Mobility of the EU funded project the GasHighWay (www.gashighway.net), held on 28th January 2010 in Malmö, Sweden, was announced a great success by organiser NGVA Europe. Participants were able to hear 15 expert presentations from 10 different nationalities in the seminar. The GasHighWay partners and NGVA Europe members presented real success stories and best practice cases from countries across Europe where the infrastructure development of NG/biomethane filling stations and number of NGVs is already on its way. All presentations from the conference are available here.
Fiat 500 natural gas powered 1.4 turbo concept car
Natural gas/biogas consumption: urban 5.5 kgs/100km, rural 3.3 kgs/100km
CO2 Emissions: Natural gas (90%) / Biogas 10% – 98 g/km
Fiat S.p.A. will introduce the Natural Power Fiat 500 concept car, with its 1.4 litre turbo engine (115 h.p.), at the 80th International Geneva Motor Show (4 to 14 March 2010). Together with a selection of other natural gas turbo vehicles, the Fiat 500 will be on display at the stand of gasmobil ag, the centre of competence operated by the Swiss Natural Gas Association to promote mobility.
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The Caddy Maxi EcoFuel crosses the Peru-Ecuador border on the Panamericana
NGV champion Rainer Zietlow left Lisbon, Portugal on October 4th, 2009, driving a VW Caddy Maxi EcoFuel, intent on driving the two longest highways in the world using locally-fuelled natural gas. Carrying extra cylinders for the occasional leg where fuel is a little scarce, Zietlow and his team have advanced through much of the South American leg of the Panamericana.
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The Caddy Ecofuel bound for Tierra del Fuego in South America
Setting off from Santiago on December 29th, where the trans-shipped VW Caddy Maxi Ecofuel was eased out of its container, Rainer Zietlow has commenced the Panamericana leg of his global cng-powered journey. Zietlow’s goal is to travel the two longest roads in the world, the Amur Transcontinental and the Panamericana, using only compressed natural gas for fuel. First heading south through Chile, the Caddy reached Tierra del Fuego on Jan 1st, before heading north again into Argentina and Uruguay.
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Carmona puts the Gasco-Terpel Gasel Toyota Landcruiser through its paces.
Intent on proving natural gas is up to the demands of the one of the world’s toughest motorsport events, a newly formed Gasco-Terpel Gasel team have prepared two V6 Toyota FJ Landcruisers to compete in the 2010 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally commencing on January 1. Both vehicles have undergone conversion to compressed natural gas, fitted with Pelmag conversion kits from Argentina and Italian AEB electronic control units to manage the gas fuel supply. The applied technology is the same used for standard vehicle conversions.
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IMW President Brad Miller
British Columbia-based IMW Industries was recently named BC Export Award’s 2009 Exporter of the Year, rising to the fore despite challenging global economic conditions. IMW’s clean technology expertise and ongoing success in the global CNG marketplace has earned it top recognition among its peers. It’s success comes mainly from the supply of CNG systems to fuelling station operators and commercial fleets across more than 25 countries worldwide. In April this year, they signed an agreement with China Gas to build 120 large-scale CNG stations, using their specialized non-lubricated compressor systems.
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OMV's CNG-powered Subaru racing to 2nd overall in Austrian Rally
“…the future will belong to gas powered cars…” (Manfred Stohl – former Group N World Rally Champion)
Austria’s OMV CNG Rally team is all smiles having closed off the 2009 Austrian Rally Championship in 2nd position overall, sealing the Vice-Champion position with a fourth place in the season closer, the Waldviertel Rally. This season was the first for OMV competing in the Division 1 class, having dominated the Alternative Fuel class since first entering the competition in 2006. The decision to switch to Division 1 was made just weeks before the beginning of this year’s season, along with the decision to switch to a converted Subaru Impreza instead of the Mitsubishi Evos used in previous seasons. The team again used biomethane for the full series supplied by OMV from its plant in Bruck (west of Vienna).
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A ceremonial drummer welcomes ANGVA 2009 Green Highway participants to Chuncheon City
South Korea’s Chuncheon City has had a small taste of natural gas vehicle fever ahead of the city’s hosting of the IANGV NGV 2012 Conference and Exhibition. The city was host last month to the commencement of the final leg of the ANGVA Green Highway rally, en route to Donghae for the ANGVA 2009 Conference and Exhibition. Though a relative newcomer to the natural gas vehicle scene, Chuncheon has embraced the concept since first winning their early bid to host NGV 2012 back in 2006. In the subsequent period the city has seen the installation of two compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations and more than 200 CNG vehicles operating on the city’s roads.
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Spanish energy company, Gas Natural has taken part in the first Valladolid Alternative Vehicle and Fuel Show, held in north-central Spain earlier in November. The company offered a technical seminar and sponsored the “Cubo de experiencias” zone, where companies, SMEs and private users were able to discuss their experiences of using alternative fuels in vehicles. The exhibition, whose main aim was to provide information on alternative vehicles and their fuels, included a technical programme, commercial sessions, demonstrations of case studies, and product presentations and demonstrations.
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Korean traditional dance celebrates the opening of ANGVA 2009 in Donghae
Natural gas industry stands at the threshold of an energy revolution
Korea’s national vision of ‘Low Carbon, Green Growth’ and associated countermeasures against the ongoing climate, environmental and resource crisis, has been clearly expressed on the opening days of the ANGVA 2009 Conference and Exhibition. The venue, the proud City of Donghae, is alive with fluttering flags and beds of flowers, smiling faces and other signs of welcome – all conveying the generous hospitality that has greeted dignataries, delegates and visitors to the conference and exhibition.
“Amid the global economic crisis, we are facing various environmental issues such as climate change and securing natural resources. This is also the time when low carbon, green growth policy is needed,” Environment Minister Lee Maan-ee said at the opening ceremony, which was also included addresses by ANGVA President, Dr Chitrapongse Kwangsukstith.
Keynote addresses have been presented by Rich Kolodziej (President, IANGV), Kazunobu Onogawa ((Director, UNCRD), Kang-Soo Choo (CEO, Kogas) and Jong-Soo Yoon (General Manager, GE). Each pointed to the growing capacity, development and opportunity for natural gas powered transportation.
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Biomethane fuelled CNG VW Scirrocco's race against each other in 2010
Volkswagen continues to build on the success of their natural gas vehicle program, organising a one-make cup featuring biomethane powered Scirroccos starting in 2010. With a CO2 reduction of up to 80 per cent Volkswagen demonstrates that major innovative strides are still possible in motorsport and that natural gas is a worthy contender at the highest level. Following the successful debut of the compressed natural gas-powered Scirocco GT24-CNG at the 24-hour race on the Nürburgring, an entire ‘one-make cup’ has now been designed to increase eco-friendly motorsport.
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Westport ranked No. 1 on Canadian Cleantech 10 list
Westport Innovations Inc., producer of alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies, has been ranked first on Corporate Knights Cleantech 10 list. As an independent media company, Corporate Knights confers the recognition upon Canada’s best publicly and privately held companies in the cleantech realm across a range of sectors.
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Iveco CNG Daily - 2009 Van of the Year - Alternative Fuels
Further adding to the accolades for natural gas vehicles, the Fleet Van Awards held recently in London has recognised Iveco’s gas-powered Daily light commercial vehicle by naming it “Green Van of the Year 2009″ in the alternative fuel category. Fleet Van’s Editor, Trevor Gelken, praised the vehicle performance for reducing its CO2 emissions by 62 per cent in comparison with an equivalent diesel model, and already conforming to Euro VI standards.
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