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“Fleet Day” a Major Feature of AF&V 2010

March 12, 2010 – 6:28 pm | USA, Las Vegas NV

Program focuses on Public and Private Fleet Managers – Las Vegas, May 9-12

Program highlights have been announced for the 16th AFVi Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference and Expo (AF&V 2010), to be held in Las Vegas from May 9-12. AF&V 2010 attendee focus is on public and private fleet managers, with a “Fleet Day’ added to the program for the first time. Keynote speakers include T. Boone Pickens, creator of The Pickens Plan,  and John Davis, Executive Producer and creator of MotorWeek, US television’s longest running automotive series.
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IANGV Calls for Nominations for 2010 NGV Champion Awards

March 4, 2010 – 5:14 pm

IANGV logoNominations Close 19 March

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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Eco Mobiliste 2010 – NGVs Galore

February 26, 2010 – 7:11 pm | Switzerland, Geneva

The Fiat Punto Evo 1.4 CNG - EcoChampion 2010 - Small Cars category

One third of top eighty cars are natural gas / biogas vehicles

NGVs achieve 1st place in four categories

The 2010 edition of  Eco Mobiliste (Ecomobiliste 2010 de l’ATE), published in time for the Geneva Motor Show, is once again populated with large numbers of natural gas / biogas vehicles. Among the ten best vehicles, five are NGVs. A third of the top 80 vehicles are NGVs; by comparison only four are hybrids.
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NGV 2010 Program Published – NGVs Creating Revolution in Transport

February 18, 2010 – 9:27 pm

NGV 2010 Rome, Italy, June 8-10More 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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India’s SIAT 2011 “Sustainable Mobility” Symposium – Call for Papers

February 11, 2010 – 7:11 pm | India, Pune

SIAT 2011SIAT 2011: Sustainable Mobility – A Creative Challenge, Jan 19-21

SIAT 2011 EXPO, Jan 19-22. Location – Pune, India

The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) has released details of its biennial Symposium on International Automotive Technology (SIAT). SIAT 2011 will focus discussion on key areas such as Safety, Alternate Fuels, Future Engine Technologies, Emissions, NVH, Automotive Electronics, Structural Evaluation, Vehicle Engineering and Materials.
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GasHighWay Seminar Declared Successful

February 11, 2010 – 4:19 am | Europe

GasHighWay logoThe 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.

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Natural Power Fiat 500 Concept Car Will Feature at Geneva Motor Show

February 10, 2010 – 3:44 pm | Source: salon-auto | Switzerland, Geneva
Fiat 500 concept natural gas / biogas 1.4 turbo

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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Where is Rainer Zietlow and his CNG-fuelled VW Caddy Now?

February 4, 2010 – 2:38 pm | South America

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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Dual-Fuel Critical Issues Workshop in Brussels

January 27, 2010 – 5:37 pm | Source: Dr. Jeffrey M. Seisler, CEO Clean Fuels Consulting

Dual-fuel (Gaseous/Diesel) Engines – Opportunities, Challenges & Strategies to Expand the Market – the third in the series of Critical Issues Workshops – Brussels, Belgium on 30 & 31 March 2010

This forum aims to identify and explore the most important technology, marketing and regulatory issues related to gaseous fuelled (natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas – LPG) ‘dual-fuel’ diesel engines. Engine experts, fleet operators and government regulatory specialists will meet in Brussels to discuss the range of different dual-fuel technologies, operating experiences and regulatory issues that must be addressed in order to overcome the market entry challenges faced by these economic and low polluting engine technologies. Speakers and the audience will participate in an open dialogue designed to create a strategy that encourages the development of a new regulatory framework to allow the certification of dual-fuel gaseous engine systems and results in increased worldwide market penetration of dual-fuel engines and vehicles.
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Zietlow Travels the Panamericana

January 14, 2010 – 4:03 pm | South America
The Caddy Ecofuel about to cross the Strait of Magellan bound for Tierra del Fuego

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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MADEGASCAR Project to Close with CNG/Biomethane Best Practice Conference

January 8, 2010 – 11:40 pm

Logo-madegascarMadegascar Final Conference: On the Road with CNG and Biomethane – European Best Practice Examples

Third International NGV Conference – 2010

The MADEGASCAR (market development for gas driven cars) project is drawing to a close, marking its conclusion with a conference — “On the Road with CNG and Biomethane – European Best Practice Examples” — set for February 4-5 in Prague. The conference will be held in cooperation with the Third International NGV conference – 2010, which is themed “Prospects for the Development and Use of CNG in Transport“, and is organised by the Czech Gas Association in cooperation with NGVA Europe.
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Toyota Landcruisers with CNG Conversions Race the 2010 Dakar

January 1, 2010 – 1:25 am | Argentina and Chile
The Gaso-Terpel Gasel Toyota Landcruiser going throught its paces pre-start of the 2010 Dakar

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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GasHighWay Project’s First International ‘Renewable Mobility’ Seminar

December 17, 2009 – 12:13 pm
Image: Martti Hänninen, Finland

Image: Martti Hänninen, Finland

GasHighWay Seminar: A Trans-European Road to Renewable Mobility – 28th January 2010, Malmö, Sweden.

NGVA Europe has announced details for the first international seminar of the GasHighWay project (www.gashighway.net). It will focus on NG/biomethane as a vehicle fuel and will present real best practice cases from across Europe.

The preliminary seminar program is available here.
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NGV 2010 Rome Conference and Exhibition – Call for Abstracts EXTENDED

December 9, 2009 – 5:53 pm

logo_roma2010-250December 31, 2009 New Submission Deadline

The International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV) and the Consorzio NGV System invite you to submit your abstract for the 12th Biennial NGV Conference & Exhibition to be held in Rome, Italy, June 8-10 2010. Fifty papers will be selected, 40 for oral presentation and 10 for poster sessions. Three papers will be judged in advance of the conference and awarded Best Papers’ prizes with the authors receiving complimentary delegate registration (courtesy of conference organisers, NGV Communications Group).
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Epic CNG Journey Reaches Mid-Point

November 26, 2009 – 2:16 pm
Rainer Zietlow (right of photo) and team happy to have completed first leg without incident.

Rainer Zietlow (right of photo) and team happy to have completed first leg without incident.

CNG adventurer Rainer Zietlow has completed the first leg of a two-part world expedition driving a VW Caddy Maxi EcoFuel that will utilise as far as practicable a network of CNG fueling stations to reach journey’s end in Alaska. Setting off from Portugal in October Zietlow and his intrepid team travelled the ‘Eurasia Highway’ to Vladivostok before embarking on a ferry to Japan to end this section. Zietlow detoured briefly to Donghae, Korea in time for ANGVA 2009, where he hand-delivered a certificate from NGVA Europe to ANGVA Executive Director Mr Lee Giok Seng.
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