A currently operating MARTA CNG bus (Image: NGVAmerica)
New Flyer Industries Inc., manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses in the United States and Canada, has been awarded a contract for 265 30-foot and 40-foot heavy-duty buses with compressed natural gas (CNG) propulsion by Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). The contract contains a firm order of eight Low Floor Restyled CNG 30-foot buses and 80 Xcelsior™ CNG 40-foot buses with options for an additional 177 Xcelsior CNG or hybrid 40-foot buses to be exercised at a later date. Read more »
As momentum continues to build in the long-haul trucking segment in the USA, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has released Vol. IV of ROAD TO NATURAL GAS, an update of its growing portfolio of customers making the switch to natural gas as a transportation fuel or expanding their current fleets. This edition includes new agreements recently signed including Clean Energy’s first railroad fuel deal with GE Transportation to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) for its new initiative to test LNG locomotives. 
Minister Norman Baker, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport (DfT), has launched a new £5 million (USD 7.8 million) Clean Bus Technology Fund which will allow local authorities to bid for grants to upgrade local buses by retrofitting pollution reducing technologies, such as cleaner engines operating on biomethane (renewable natural gas). The grant was announced during Minister Baker’s keynote address to the (first) UK Biomethane & Gas Vehicle Conference 2013 in London. 
North American full-service waste management company Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd, which already has Canada’s largest waste and recycling collection fleet of natural gas powered vehicles, plans to significantly increase the number of natural gas powered trucks it purchases. The Company made the announcement on the first day (May 31) of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia. 
GDF SUEZ Gas NA (GSGNA) has begun supplying TransGas LNG of Lowell, Massachusetts, the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucking company in the U.S. Northeast, with LNG for use as a vehicle fuel. Transgas is using LNG to fuel 10 new tanker-truck tractors, which are also transporting LNG primarily to gas utilities throughout New England and to commercial-industrial facilities that use LNG. 
The UK’s first open access Bio-LNG filling station, built by Gasrec, was launched today in an official opening by Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for Transport, Norman Baker MP. This launch marks the start of a nationwide investment in infrastructure seeking the ultimate prize of wiping out nearly two-thirds of the nation’s heavy goods vehicle (HGV) emissions. 
Fleets operating along the I-84 and I-15 corridors from Las Vegas, Nev., through Utah, Idaho, and eastern Oregon can now rent Kenworth trucks fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) through a new rental program available from PACCAR Leasing Company (PacLease), its local franchise – Kenworth Sales Company, and Blu LNG. PacLease and Salt Lake City-based Kenworth Sales Company are teaming up with Blu LNG to provide the LNG-fueled trucks and the LNG fuel to power them. 
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