Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio receives an NGV Champion award from outgoing IANGV Chairman, Mr Rich Kolodziej.
IANGV has used the occasion of NGV 2010, the biennial conference and exhibition, to acknowledge “NGV Champions”, nominated by the industry every two years for their achievements in furthering the use of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) worldwide. Recipients of the award included:
Presidente Dott. Roberto Formigoni – President of Lombardia region in Italy since 1995 and recently re-elected for a fourth term. Initiatives spearheaded by Presidente Formigoni include: enforcing the first mandate in Italy imposing the installation of a CNG dispenser in every new public refuelling station; providing financial incentives for the construction of CNG fuelling stations and vehicles; and signing agreements for the construction of 30 new CNG stations to be built by 2012. At the end of 2009, Lombardia region had 77 CNG fuelling stations and 54,000 vehicles.
Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio – Mayor of Lima, Peru since 2003. Mayor Castañeda has worked tirelessly for the implementation of NGV programs to improve the air quality in Lima, culminating in the inauguration of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor comprising more than 500 CNG Euro V buses for his city. 8 more similar BRT corridors are in the planning stages. Mayor Castañeda has also: spearheaded a loan program allowing taxi drivers to purchase new CNG taxis and pay back the loan through a premium on the price of fuel until the loan is paid off; and initiated a program for the scrapping of old diesel engines.
California Cartage Company – of California, USA. The first NGV Champion award issued to a company rather than an individual, California Cartage was selected for outstanding efforts in introducing NGVs to their fleet. In less than 2 years, they have deployed 350 heavy-duty class-8 LNG trucks in their operation, making them the largest LNG truck operation (non-bus, non-refuse) in the United States. Their aggressive efforts were instrumental in Daimler Trucks introducing first their Sterling truck and then the Freightliner M2 truck to the market (nearly all have been ordered as LNG), followed by Peterbilt and Kenworth. These vehicles are now available for the rest of the U.S. truck market. The company also worked with Autocar Trucks to deploy the first four (4) CNG port drayage trucks in the market. By the end of 2010, the company plans to have nearly 500 heavy-duty LNG trucks in its operation, representing more than 50% of its entire truck operations.
Print 
PDF 