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Stepping up their drive to bring compressed natural gas to the masses, two advocate groups unveiled six popular automobiles here converted to run on both gasoline and CNG. Marty Durbin, president & CEO of America’s Natural Gas Alliance and Kathryn Clay, executive director of the Drive Natural Gas Initiative (a collaboration between ANGA and the American Gas Association), said the campaign is aimed to convince consumers, automakers and policymakers of the benefits of CNG as an abundant, affordable clean resource. “Manufacturers are offering bi-fuel vehicles in many other countries around the world; we want them in showrooms here,” said Clay. —More ANGA Roadshow on 8

California’s Wrightspeed, a developer of light to medium duty plug-in hybrid electric trucks – including a CNG-fueled demonstrator – hosted yesterday evening’s ACT Expo 2013 opening reception in the Expo Hall. Seen here with “The Route” drive at Booth 213 is Wrightspeed’s new sales and mar-keting VP Jonathan Randall (ex-Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp).

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TA & Shell for LNG TravelCenters plan for trucks detailed here. —Page 4

Ryder for Lighter NGVsAdds 20 CNG GreenKraft and

19 Navistar TranStar for California

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Trillium Wins Frito WarEmerges the winner under

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Landi Renzo Adds Dual FuelStarts with 12.7-liter DDC engine

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Clean Energy Buys MansfieldAcquisition for $20 million brings

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Penske for Propane Supporting Roush-powered trucks for Chicago’s Alpha Baking.

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Expo Hall Exhibitors3M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360

AFV Natural Gas Fuel System . . . .343AGA Systems, Incorporated . . . . . .649Agility Fuel Systems . . . . . . . . . . .537Allied Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . .564American Honda . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201American CNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .666American Natural Gas . . . . . . . . . .542American Power Group . . . . . . . . .777Anderson Flaps Incorporated

Lobby (ANGA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245ANGI Energy Systems . . . . . . . . . .336Argentine NGV Association . . . . . .267Ariel Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . .364Aspro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .442Atlas Copco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270Automotive Research & Design . . .344

BAF Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . .371BASF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .469Bauer Compressors . . . . . . . . . . .509Bio CNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .460Blu LNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359Boulder Electric Vehicle . . . . . . . . .216

Cavagna Group, S .p .A . . . . . . . . . .567Chart Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255Chrysler Group Fleet . . . . . . . . . . .315Clean Air Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . .613Clean Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .471ClipperCreek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310CNG Cylinders International . . . . .340CNG One Source . . . . . . . . . . . . .670Cobey Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .544Cobham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) . .265Corban Energy Group . . . . . . . . . .560Counteract Balancing Beads . . . . .465CP Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .568Cryogenic Industries . . . . . . . . . . .448Cryostar USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440Cubogas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .563Cummins Westport . . . . . . . . . . . .548

Diesel Technology Forum . . . . . . . .325

Eaton Vehicle Group . . . . . . . . . . .520EcoDual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431EControls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237Endress Hauser . . . . . . . . . . . . . .466eNow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282Europeplast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449Evergreen CNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .467EVSE, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314Europeplast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .449

Ferrellgas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .415FIBA Technologies, Incorporated . .345Fleet Owner Magazine . . . . . . . . . .668Ford Motor Company . . . . . . . . . . .309Freightliner Custom Chassis . . . . .619Freightliner Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . .619

Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .461GE Oil & Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .425General Motors Fleet . . . . . . . . . .301Gladstein, Neandross & Associates 215GPS Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370GP Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247Greater Washington Region

Clean Cities Coalition . . . . . . . .369Greenline Fuel Corporation . . . . . .260GreenTech Automotive . . . . . . . . .312Griffin Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . .445

Hexagon Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . .540Hino Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .355Hy-Lok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .464

IMPCO Automotive . . . . . . . . . . . .455IMW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372INOX/CVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .346Isuzu Commercial Trucks

of America, Incorporated . . . . . .555

JC Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273Jefferson Solenoid Valves . . . . . . .462

Kenworth Truck Company . . . . . . .238

Landi Renzo USA . . . . . . . . . . . . .347Luxfer Gas Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . .337

Mack Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254Macro Technologies . . . . . . . . . . .546

NAFA Fleet Management Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .341

National Biodiesel Board . . . . . . . .321Navistar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .667New Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259NGVAmerica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .446Northville Natural Gas . . . . . . . . .261

Odyne Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . .436Oklahoma Department

of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269OMB Saleri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .447Optimum Composites . . . . . . . . . .458OPW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .571

Parker Hannifin Corporation . . . . . .358Penske . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .643PeopleNet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .366Peterbilt Motors Company . . . . . . .655Pi Innovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368Power Solutions International (PSI) 331Powertrain Integration . . . . . . . . . .348Propane Education & Research

Council (PERC) . . . . . . . . . . . . .401PSB Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .441

Quantum Technologies . . . . . . . . .518Questar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .501

Renewable Energy Group . . . . . . .420Roush CleanTech . . . . . . . . . . . . .419Ryder System, Incorporated . . . . .222

Sensor Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . .263Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219Sierra Monitor Corporation . . . . . .249Simpkins Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . .536Stäubli Corporation . . . . . . . . . . .361

Taylor-Wharton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437Trillium CNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200TruStar Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276Tulsa Gas Technologies . . . . . . . . .444

Ultimate CNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .637Universal Air & Gas Products

Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365US DOE Clean Cities . . . . . . . . . . .367Utilimaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .566

Venchurs Vehicle Systems . . . . . .211VIA Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231Volvo Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .601

Wayne, a GE Energy Business . . . .422WEH Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . .251Weldship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .468Westport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .545Workhorse/AMP Electric Vehicles .241Worthington Cylinders . . . . . . . . . .573Wrightspeed Powertrains . . . . . . .213

XL Hybrids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .672

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Welcome to Washington DC! It is with great pleasure that we raise the curtain on ACT Expo 2013 and kick off the largest and most impressive gather-ing of alternative fuel vehicle stakeholders that our industry has ever witnessed.

We are thrilled to have enjoyed such positive response to the idea that as attendees, yes, you can indeed find it all under one roof. All fuel types, all weight classes, and all of the exciting vehicles, technologies, and equipment that are driving clean transportation forward will be here and ready for viewing. From speakers to exhibits to content and programming – we hope you’ll find your experience here to be extremely rewarding, highly educational, and worth the important investment of your time.

We’re ticking off milestones this year in spe-cial celebration of several significant achieve-ments. First, this year marks ACT’s East Coast debut and we’re excited to bring the resources of

this event to our nation’s capi-tal with an expanded Expo Hall and more speakers than ever before. We’ve been warmly welcomed to the District and it’s certainly encouraging to see a strong interest in alter-native fuels building not just in the U.S. but throughout all of North America and beyond.

We are also pleased to rec-ognize our event partner, the U.S. Department of Energy,

and its Clean Cities program. This year, Clean Cities is celebrating its 20 year anniversary and two decades of initiatives designed to decrease the use of petroleum throughout the transporta-tion system. This year the network of coordina-tors and program directors gather here, with us at ACT Expo, to celebrate this achievement and set a course for continued success in the years ahead.

ACT Expo’s impressive list of past keynote speakers will be enhanced this year by the par-ticipation of Thomas O’Brien, President and CEO of TravelCenters of America and by UPS COO David Abney. Both gentlemen represent companies that continue to set the bar higher

and higher with respect to the implementation of aggressive alternative fuel programs and are truly leaders in their fields.

There is more OEM technology available than ever before and you’ll find the Expo Hall teeming with new products, equipment, and effi-ciencies designed to fuel success for your fleet. Key players from all fuel sectors and technology types are here and prepared to engage – we hope you are all ready for an exciting few days ahead at the Ride & Drive and on the show floor.

The same market drivers are still with us this year: soaring conventional fuel prices (although recent trade press seems to get excited about $3.85 per gallon pricing at the pump), national security, and the need for clean air. We continue to see proof of the fact that “clean and domestic” can also be lower cost. Fleet operators are real-izing that it is possible to do the right thing and to save money doing it. This year we’ll take another focused look at success stories and shine a well-deserved spotlight on those fleets making alter-native fuels work in their day to day operations.

I thank you all for joining us at ACT Expo 2013. Your participation is integral to the success of this event and we hope you’ll find tremendous value in the tools, resources, and contacts avail-able to you here this week.

Have a great show!Erik Neandross

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Like wine? Women’s basketball? James Bond? Perhaps you’d like to own a guitar signed by Jimmy Page? And BB King? Clapton too?

Check out the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition’s Silent Auction at Booth 369. You can bid on • Washington Gas Verizon Center Suite (18 tickets) for Saturday, July 6 game: Washington Mystics vs. Seattle. Two parking passes included. ($960 value/$400 opening bid); • Wine Tasting for 8 from Barrel Oak Winery ($175 value/$80 opening bid); • White House 16x20 Photo – RARE – Auto-graphed by 11 Presidents & VPs: Obama, Clinton, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Carter, Ford, Biden, Gore, Quayle, Cheney and Mondale. (priceless/$1,800 opening bid); • All Six James Bonds Autographed Movie Poster signed by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig ($2,000 value/$850 opening bid); and

• Autographed Rock N’ Roll Legends Elec-tric Guitar: One-of-a-kind axe with signatures of Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, Slash, BB King, Neil Young, the Edge, and Pete Townshend ($10,000 value/$2,000 opening bid).

That’s just a sample. The GWRCCC Silent Auction closes at 6:00pm this evening, during the Expo Hall reception.

Winners will be required to pay for their pur-chases immediately, advises auction coordinator Jill Hamilton.

Cash, checks, Visa and MasterCard accepted. Additional items are welcome!

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That’s the word from Thomas O’Brien, presi-dent and CEO of TA, the nation’s largest full-service truck stop chain – and keynote speaker at ACT Expo’s general session yesterday.

The fueling outlets will be developed at exist-ing TA and Petro Stopping Centers in league with Shell Oil (Booth 219), which will supply the LNG.

The first sites, each with two LNG dispensers

and a storage facility, are slated for Cali-fornia, Texas and Nevada. Sites will then spread out at about 250 mile intervals along major trucking routes.

Maintenance and repair facilities for LNG-powered trucks will be offered at the LNG fueling sites, and eventually at all TA and Petro centers, O’Brien said.

“We will develop the infrastructure as our customers need it,” he promised.

“This stuff just got real,” O’Brien said. “The shale revolution has given us the chance to make a transformational change in the trans-portation industry. Your ideas are now ready for prime time commercialization.”

But the opportunity is not without risk. O’Brien cited three often quoted roadblocks: that natural gas equipment costs more upfront and suffers a discount in the used market; that if demand for natural gas goes up and for diesel declines, the price advantage of natural gas will diminish; and that there is little or no infrastructure for fueling or repairs en route.

“Well, I believe the economic benefit of using natural gas over the road will persist for quite some time,” O’Brien said. “And despite what the pencil-pushers say, the use of natural gas vehicles

is happening. It’s accelerating.”TA and Shell believe the time is right to

invest significant capital to paint the retail part of the picture.

The first LNG lanes will cost six to seven times more than a diesel lane to construct, with their special equipment and safety measures, O’Brien said. That cost will decline for later lanes to twice that of a diesel lane as the learning curve flattens.

The shale revolution has given the U.S. a mean-ingful advantage on the world stage, and a chance to grow its economy. “We must now press that advan-tage for the long-term in a safe way,” O’Brien said.


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The first of as many 100 liquefied natural gas fueling centers for heavy-duty trucks, the beginning of a network spanning the U.S., will be opened next year by TravelCenters of America.

TravelCenters of America & Shell for LNG Trucks

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Shell Oil is entering the North American liquefied natural gas market in a big way, leveraging its strengths as an integrated company to produce natural gas in the U.S. and Canada (and Europe), liquefy it, distribute it and commercialize it for road, sea, and rail. Plans extend well beyond the partnership with TravelCenters of America to build a LNG truck-stop network across the U.S.

Shell (Booth 219) is building liquefaction plants in Alberta and in Ontario, and in Louisiana, to serve truck and other emerging LNG markets. A trio of LNG stations in and around Calgary are to pump fuel from outside suppliers until product can be sourced from the new liquefaction unit at Jumping Pound, Alb. Jumping Pound will support new truck stops and also energy E&P (exploration and production, including fracking) operations, and ultimately railroads.

A liquefaction plant in Geismar, La. and a facility in Sarnia, Ont., will supply marine mar-kets. These liquefaction facilities are expected

to begin operations and production within the next three years. Geismar will sup-ply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the off-shore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisi-ana. Sarnia will supply LNG fuel to all five Great Lakes, their bordering U.S. states and Canadian provinces and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Shell will charter at least three LNG-diesel dual fuel offshore supply vessels from New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf, the first of which is nearing completion in Gulfport, Miss. Harvey and partners are bidding to build LNG bunker vessels for Shell too: powered barges able to distribute LNG to ships. They are expected to load at Geis-mar and at a storage facility in Port Fourchon, La.

“Natural gas is an abundant and cleaner-burning energy source in North America, and Shell is leveraging its LNG expertise and inte-grated strength to make LNG a viable fuel

option for the commercial market,” says Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil. “We are investing now in the infrastructure that will allow us to bring this innovative and cost-competitive fuel to our customers.”

Shell owned E&P operations, some of which have changed over from diesel to natural gas fuel, include hydraulic fracturing operations in Appalachia, the Eagle Ford shale in Texas, and Alberta.

In Europe, Shell recently acquired off Norway’s Gasnor, supplier to pioneering LNG marine opera-tors. It has also begun operating dedicated-LNG powered barges on the Rhine. These deliver liq-uid fuel – a lesson perhaps to the U.S. compa-nies still transporting LNG with diesel tractors.

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ClipperCreek for ‘Highest Power’ EV Charger

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Some of the best sessions at ACT Expo 2013 will be on Thursday morning. Han Dinh of the U.S. Postal Service, for example, will discuss his huge fleet’s “next generation options” – as many as 180,000 vehicles over five years. DHL, Aramark, and FedEx will be there too. Fleets & Fuels and ACT Expo ShowTimes editor Rich Piellisch will moderate. 10:45 Thursday in Room 209B.

ClipperCreek is introducing the CS-100-3P, a 30-kilowatt, 80-amp, three-phase electric vehicle charger. “This technology represents the highest power EV charging station available for commercial trucking applications,” the company says.

“We saw a need for higher power charging to help expand the fleet and allow our customers to minimize their utility cost,” ClipperCreek president Dave Packard says in a release.

“This innovative durable high power unit will do just that.”The three-phase EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment) unit exceeds

the SAE J1772 standard power range, but retains the J1772 communi-cations protocol to allow customers to adjust supply current ratings to meet their specific needs. “This industry-leading station will help expand commercial truck fleets as opportunity charging can now take place in a fraction of the time,” ClipperCreek says.

“We determined that higher power charging could actually help with the impact on the utility bill by increasing the flexibility of our custom-ers as to when they charge,“ Packard said. “They are no longer forced to charge right through peak demand times.”

ClipperCreek is at Booth 310.

Three-Phase Unit Allows Charging When Rates Are Lowest

ClipperCreek is a veteran supplier of electric vehicle supply equipment to fleets. Its new 80-amp CS-100-3P, says company president Dave Packard, will allow customers to charge when they want, more quickly, at lower utility rates.

AT&T said this month that some 14,300 energy-reducing projects have brought the company more than $151 million in annu-alized energy savings since 2010.

Among the standouts: AT&T has now deployed more than 7,000 alter-native fuel vehicles out of a corporate fleet of 71,000.

BAF Technologies (Booth 371) is AT&T’s

largest supplier of natural gas vehicles, having furnished more than 3,000, including Ford E-250 and Transit Con-nect vans.

Impco Automotive Booth 455 is an AT&T NGV supplier too.

UPS said in April that it expects to have the most extensive private liquefied natural gas fleet in the U.S. by the end of 2014 – purchasing approximately 700 additional LNG vehicles and investing $18 million to build fueling stations in Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, and Dallas.

UPS already operates more than 2,600 alt fuel vehicles world-wide including 1,000 NGVs. David Abney, COO at UPS, is the keynote speaker at this morn-ing’s plenary session. His topic: “The UPS Journey: Lessons from 300 Million Green Miles.”

AT&T Saves with CNG

Honda unveiled its 2013 dedicated-

CNG Civic Natural Gas sedan at the

Wrightspeed-sponsored Expo Hall

reception yesterday evening. Doing the

unwrapping are Elizabeth Munger and

Annabel Cook of Honda, and advisor

Barbara Brentano of ACT Expo orga-

nizer Gladstein, Neandross & Associ-

ates. American Honda is at Booth 201.

BAF-converted Ford Transit Connect in San Francisco.

180,000 Vehicles!

UPS Commits to 700 More LNG-Fueled Trucks

David Abney

Honda Unveils 2013 Civic CNG



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Ryder System has branched into light and medium duty compressed natu-ral gas vehicles in California, taking delivery of 39 CNG trucks said to be “the first of their kind available for lease or rent in North America.”

Ryder (Booth 222) is deploying 20 CNG-fueled JAC-chassis cab-over vehicles by Greenkraft with 6.0-liter GM engines, and 19 Navistar International TranStar trucks with Cummins Westport ISL G engines. Navistar is at Booth 667.

The CNG trucks range in gross vehicle weight from 16,000 to 33,000 pounds. They will be maintained at Ryder’s natural gas-compliant California maintenance facilities in Orange, Fontana (where

a grand opening is slated for July 10), Rancho Dominguez and West Sacramento.

“Unlike heavy duty natural gas vehicles,

which require fueling stations designed to accommodate large commercial tractor-trailers, these lighter vehicles are able to access much of the existing retail CNG fueling infrastructure, which will increase their usability,” Ryder said.

Ryder System is a platinum spon-sor of ACT Expo, and two Ryder executives will participate in the conference at 8:30am Thursday:

• Ryder supply management VP Scott Perry will discuss “Les-sons and Data” at the Show Me the Money – Total Cost of Ownership session, and

• Ryder senior manager for alternative fuels and finance Chris Nordh will make the case for “AFVs:

The Easy Way” at the Rental and Leasing Programs session.

The 39 new light and medium duty vehicles for California “repre-sent an expansion of Ryder’s 300-plus heavy duty natural gas vehicle fleet,” Ryder says. Two years ago the firm deployed 202 heavy duty trucks via

a groundbreaking Southern Cali-fornia project with SANBAG, the San Bernardino Associated Govern-ments – and the trucks were unveiled in connection with ACT Expo 2011.

Ryder’s natural gas fleet also includes vehicles based in Arizona, Michigan and Louisiana.

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Atlas Copco is featuring a line of natural gas compres-sors and a fast fill dispenser at Booth 270.

Atlas Copco’s fast fill dispenser (formerly from Greenfield) features an industry-leading LCD display and electronics, the company says, as well as an integrated micro-processor with mass flow, sequential and display electronics –

features that “eliminate the need for additional remote components.”

Atlas Copco’s natural gas compressors feature a multi-stage compressor design and a compact footprint for maximum efficiency – saving valuable space at natu-ral gas fueling stations.

Atlas Copco Compressors is headquartered in Rock Hill, S.C. The company manufactures, markets, and ser-vices oil-free and oil-injected stationary air and gas com-pressors, air treatment equipment, and air management systems, including local manufacturing of select products.

Edging to the Lead

NASCAR driver Trevor Bayne helped spread Roush CleanTech’s message of clean and economical propane autogas at the NASCAR Nationwide Series in Michigan on June 15th, driving a Roush-sponsored Mustang. Roush CleanTech (Booth 419) offers dedicated-propane conversions of Ford trucks and vans, and of school buses with Ford engines.

Ryder’s new placement of 39 light and medium duty CNG vehicles in California includes 19 Navistar International TranStar trucks with Cummins Westport ISL G engines.

Ryder Places 39 More NGVs

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The strategy was to give CNG vendors the sup-port they need to justify building natural gas infrastructure.

Trillium (Booth 200), which is also responsible for a CNG station opened by Frito-Lay just last week in Beloit, Wisc., is to build five of seven of the new public access facilities. Utah-based Questar is to build two.

Frito-Lay will expand its own fleet of heavy duty CNG vehicles to 208 tractors this year. “Once deployed, the 208 CNG tractors will make up 20% of Frito-Lay’s fleet and will be located at 50% of production locations, making Frito-Lay’s CNG fleet one of the largest CNG fleets in the U.S.,” the company says.

The seven new CNG fueling stations, along with three others to be in operation this year, will begin at a total expected annual volume of two mil-lion gallons and grow to a little over eight million gallons in five years, the Pepsico unit adds.

“This initiative to build much-needed natural gas infrastructure for large commercial vehicles is part of Frito-Lay’s deep commitment to the envi-ronment,” said Frito-Lay North America senior director for fleet operations Mike O’Connell.

“When all 208 CNG tractors are in service, Frito-Lay will eliminate 7,863 metric tons of carbon emissions, the equivalent of more than 1,125 cars per year,” O’Connell said.

The Frito-Lay bidding process was supported by ACT Expo organizer GNA – Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (Booth 215).

In addition to building the new station in Beloit, Trillium will be responsible for new outlets in Jonesboro, Ark.; Orlando, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; Rosenberg, Texas; and Perry, Ga.

Questar (Booth 501) will be responsible for CNG stations in Killingly, Conn., and Topeka, Kan.

Frito-Lay says it hopes to reduce its total U.S. fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2020, compared to 2007 baseline, support-ing parent PepsiCo’s commitments to environmen-tal sustainability.

Frito-Lay, in addition to CNG vehicles, has introduced all-electric trucks to its delivery fleet. In 2012 the firm said it would purchase 100 all-electric commercial vehicles from Smith Electric Vehicles,

Trillium CNG emerged the big winner after Frito-Lay last year put out an innovative RFP – agreeing to be the anchor tenant for a nationwide array of public access compressed natural gas fueling stations.

bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. These electric trucks eliminate the need for approximately 500,000 gallons of diesel fuel each year.

Frito-Lay notes too that its investment in the Beloit CNG station was supported by the State of Wisconsin and the Department of Energy.

Trillium Wins the Frito War

Cutting the ribbon in Beloit last week are Frito-Lay North America productivity and sustainability senior VP Gregg Roden, Frito-Lay logistics, distribution and transportation director Dan Washkoviak, U.S. DoE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy stakeholder engagement director Kerry Duggan, Mike Huebsch of the State of Wisconsin, and Frito-Lay North America senior fleet operations director Mike O’Connell.



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Landi Renzo USA is offering dual fuel engine conversions for trucks, starting with the 12.7-liter Detroit Diesel S60 engine, which it’s demonstrating in a Freightliner glider. Landi has teamed with Baker Equipment to tackle the OUL (outside useful life) market, says sales director Ryan Waltz.

The proprietary, Landi Renzo-

engineered system allows fleet opera-tors to take advantage of the growing compressed natural gas fueling net-work in the U.S. and “displace the majority of their diesel fuel usage with natural gas,” Landi says.

The firm reports • average fuel displacement of up to 60%, • noise reduction up to 40%, • particulate matter reduction up to 40%, • carbon dioxide reduction up to 14%, and • smoke reduction up to 50%.

“Not only does this expand our current clean fuel product offer-ing, but also it further promotes the increased use of natural gas as a fuel,” Landi Renzo USA president Andrea Landi said in a release.

Besides reducing pollution, the Landi Renzo dual fuel system • results in performance comparable to the original engine in terms of torque, horse-power, and drivability;• maintains and improves the emission lev-els of the original engine;• is flexible for adaptation to different die-sel engines;• allows a switch back to 100% diesel if needed;• requires less onboard CNG storage com-pared to a dedicated CNG vehicles; and• allows extended range compared to a truck’s original diesel system.

“While this specific dual fuel CNG system is new to the U.S. market, Landi Renzo has successfully deployed this tech-nology globally on applications that include Fiat, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Ford, Hyundai and Renault diesel engines,” the company says.

Landi Renzo (Booth 347) performed the CNG conversion of two of the six NGVs on show by America’s Natural Gas Alliance in the ACT Expo lobby – the Chrysler 300 and the Honda CRV.

Landi Renzo business development director Barry Carr will discuss Advanced Choices for Natural Gas Vehicles at the Light- & Medium-Duty OEM Factory Options and Approved Modifiers session at 10:45 in Room 209A.

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Landi Renzo USA and Baker Equipment are demonstrating the dual fuel system on a converted 12.7-liter Detroit Diesel S60 engine in this Freightliner truck.

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Sales teams from both companies will offer Clean Energy’s natural gas fueling station construction and operational services, “sup-ported by Mansfield’s large-scale fuel supply capabilities, and Gas-2-Gallons fuel management system

creating a superior solution for the growing number of fleets making the switch to cleaner, cheaper natural gas.”

Put another way, the pact assures a supply of conventional petroleum fuels, via Mansfield

Energy, for customers at Clean Energy natural gas stations.

“This agreement joins two lead-ers of fleet fueling into strategic partners that will provide the high-est level of service and best value for customers in the rapidly-growing natural gas fuel market,” said Clean Energy president and CEO Andrew Littlefair.

Mansfield Energy is an oil jobber that branched into compressed natu-ral gas with the purchase of South-ern California’s GESI/Gas Equip-ment Systems, Inc. in March 2011.

The deal covers 43 Mansfield service and operations contracts and 20 new CNG stations under development.

“No other company offers fuel customers the benefit of scale and expertise that Mansfield provides,” Littlefair said. “Clean Energy has built and operated more CNG sta-tions and fueled more natural gas vehicles than any company in the U.S. Together, we will be the best

solution in the marketplace.” Clean Energy also becomes the

Western distributor of the BRC FuelMaker Phill home CNG fuel-ing unit.

In recent weeks, Clean Energy Fuels

• released the fourth edition of its Road to Natural Gas series, including the news that it is sup-plying fuel to GE Transportation for LNG locomotive development;

• opened a CNG station in New Jersey with Covanta as the first in a nationwide partnership for natural gas garbage trucks;

• opened a natural gas fuel-ing station in Hartford to support garbage truck and taxi fleets, and AT&T vehicles;

• opened a CNG station at Baltimore/Washington Airport;

• disclosed a partnership with convenience store operator Lehigh Gas Partners for CNG with poten-tial for 20 fueling outlets.

Clean Energy Fuels is at Booth 471.

Clean Energy Fuels continues to expand, weighing into ACT Expo 2013 with last month’s $20 million acquisition of Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems under its belt.

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Cutting Petroleum Use in Transportation for 20 YearsClean Cities is this year celebrating two decades of suc-cess in the deployment of alternative and renewable fuels, advanced vehicles, fuel economy improvements, and idle reduction.

In 1992, the Energy Policy Act directed the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a program to coor-dinate government and industry efforts to use alterna-tive fuels in transportation. The following year, DoE launched Clean Cities and officially designated its first six coalitions, located in Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Delaware, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C.

Two decades later, Clean Cities boasts nearly 100 coalitions, covering 74% of the country’s population.

DoE’s David Sandalow inducts Clean Cities coordinators Lisa Thurstin and Robin Erickson into the Clean Cities Hall of Fame.

Wally Lysle and Jan Reak at the Minnesota State Capitol with a Ford Taurus FFV, in the Minnesota Department of Public Service !eet.

DOE designation ceremony for the Austin coalition.

Through the Clean Cities National Parks Initiative, Mammoth Cave National Park recently acquired four new propane buses. Each year, about 175,000 visitors ride park buses as part of their cave tours.


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Staff at the National Renewable Energy Lab administering the Alternative Fuels Data Center in the early ‘90s.

National Clean Cities Director Dennis Smith (left) awards Mark Bentley (center) and Philip Wiedmeyer an of"cial coalition designation at Alabama’s Renewable Energy Conference.

National Clean Cities Director Dennis Smith (far left) and Co-Director Linda Bluestein (far right) and Regional Manager Erin Russell-Story present an award to Greater Indiana Clean Cities Coordinator Kellie Walsh.

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Alliance AutoGas performs propane vehicle conversions too, almost of them bi-fuel using equipment from Europe’s Prins, for which it’s the U.S. distributor.

“Unlike proponents of other alternative fuels,” says the Alliance, “Alliance AutoGas does not build public fueling stations with the hope that people will begin using them. Instead, Alliance provides everything a fleet needs to suc-cessfully switch to propane auto-gas, including vehicle technology, refueling infrastructure, fuel supply and ongoing technical support.

“In just three years, this fleet-first approach has enabled Alli-ance AutoGas to switch thousands of vehicles over to this cleaner,

affordable, domestically-produced fuel. Alliance has helped its fleet customers offset thousands of tons of greenhouse gas emissions while preventing the transfer of millions of dollars to foreign oil suppliers.”

Weidie likes to talk about five propane “imperatives:”• good vehicle technology that works well with modern engines;• proper installations, by compe-tent professionals;• a strong, retail-capable fueling infrastructure with a reliable sup-ply of fuel;• data management to let fleets know how they’re faring with the alternative fuel; and• aftermarket service and support.

“You’ve got to keep the vehicles

running,” he says. Training? “Training is in all of

them,” Weidie told ShowTimes. Safety? “Safety is the umbrella

that all of our values live under.”“Fleet customers depend on

Alliance to make their switch to autogas affordable and straight-forward,” Weidie says in the orga-nization’s 1,000-stations announce-ment. “The sheer number of fleet fueling stations we’ve built is a testament to our commitment to increase affordable clean fuel options nationwide – but it’s also encouraging for our team of auto-gas fleet specialists who have been working to develop this market.”

There are 2,843 propane auto-gas stations in the U.S., the Ashe-ville, N.C.-based Alliance says, citing U.S. DoE statistics, and the Alliance “is playing an important role in increasing that number to

make clean fueling more widely available for American fleets.”

“Fleets desire to reduce costs, reduce emissions and reduce dependence on foreign oil – and the Alliance program is the most reliable choice to help them quickly reach those objectives,” Weidie says.

Weidie is also the founder of the advocacy group Autogas for Amer-ica, which states that U.S. “lags far behind the international commu-nity in adopting autogas vehicle fuel – our country drives less than 2% of the world’s 15 million-plus autogas vehicles.”

Alliance AutoGas is exhibiting with PERC, the Propane Educa-tion & Research Council, at Booth 401. Weidie is speaking at the Retail Alternative Fuel Refueling Infrastructure session at 3:30 this afternoon in Room 204C.

“We’re focusing on fleets,” says Stuart Weidie, president of Blossman Gas, a founding partner of Alliance AutoGas – which installed its 600th propane autogas refueling station this month.

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Dual fuel specialist EcoDual is here with a new president and CEO, having formally named Mike Donoughe to the post at a dinner in con-nection with ACT Expo yesterday evening.

Donoughe is a veteran of Mercedes, Chrysler and Tesla Motors, and of Bright Automotive. He remains on the board of electric driveline developer SinoEV, where he was the initial CEO.

EcoDual (Booth 431) has a system for retrofitting diesel trucks for natural gas-diesel dual fuel operation, allowing the vehicle to run on a combination of natural gas and diesel fuels – and diesel alone if cheaper natural gas is unavailable.

The EcoDual upfits allow trucks to operate on about 60% natural gas.The Beaufort, S.C.-based firm earlier this year entered a partnership

with CU-ICAR, the Clemson University International Center for Automo-tive Research, to advance commercial availability of natural gas engine systems for heavy duty diesel trucks. They “will focus their combined

resources on conversion of diesel engines already on the road to natural gas operation and reduction of exhaust emissions.”

EcoDual senior business development director Ira Dorfman will participate in the Heavy Duty Natural Gas Retrofits session at 10:45 this morning. Room 204C.

EcoDual Names Donoughe CEO

Peterbilt tractor converted to natural gas-diesel dual fuel operation by

South Carolina’s EcoDual.

The Muscogee County Sheriff in Georgia is among the beneficiaries as Alliance AutoGas has helped establish 1,000 propane autogas fueling stations – and counting. The police in Sandy Springs, Ga. are benefiting too.




Luxfer Gas Cylinders is introducing an expanded line of aluminum-lined Type III CNG fuel cylin-ders here, and says that the G-Stor Pro product takes advantage of process technology acquired with Canada’s Dynetek Industries last year.

Luxfer (Booth 337) is also preparing a line of polymer-lined (and likewise carbon fiber wrapped) Type IV cyl-inders, confirms mar-keting manager Orion Goe.

Luxfer claims “the lightest-weight cylinders for containment of clean-burning, environmentally friendly com-pressed natural gas.”

The firm’s G-Stor Pro tanks range in capacity from 2.4 diesel gallon equivalents to more than 24 DGE at 3,600 psi. They are offered with outside diameters of up to 16 inches.

“These Type 3 cylinders are made with seam-less, homogenous aluminum liners fully wrapped with high-strength, aerospace-grade carbon fiber,” Luxfer says. “The load-sharing liner pro-vides an impermeable substructure for the wrap-ping, which creates an internal cylinder surface

free from welds, joints and potential leak paths. “Unlike permeable non-metallic, non-load-

sharing liners, Luxfer aluminum liners present thermal dynamic characteristics that enable G-Stor Pro cylinders to be fast-filled – a sig-nificant productivity and cost benefit for busy vehicle fleets.

G-Stor Pro composite cylinders are 66% lighter than Type 1 all-metal steel cylinders. As such they offer fleet operators “improved fuel economy, increased range and significantly reduced vehicle maintenance costs due to lessened wear on brakes, tires and suspension systems.

“In haulage businesses, lower vehicle weights also allow higher payloads,” Luxfer says.

Luxfer manufactures G-Stor Pro composite CNG cylinders at its main factory in Riverside, Calif., and at the facility in the Calgary formerly operated by Dynetek Industries. Besides bringing customers, the Dyne-tek acquisition brought a flow-forming, mandrel process for aluminum liner manufacture.

Luxfer acquired Dynetek in September 2012. Luxfer Gas Cylinders further notes that with

additional facilities in England, France, Germany and China, it is the world’s largest manufacturer of aluminum and composite high-pressure cyl-inders, including its tanks for the storage and transportation of CNG, biomethane, hydrogen and industrial gases. Luxfer composite cylinders are also used for medical oxygen, for breathing air for firefighters and other first responders, and for specialty electronic and calibration gases.

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Norway’s Hexagon Composites, citing a growing market for natural gas vehicles in North Amer-ica, reports an aggressive expansion plan for the Hexagon Lincoln factory in Lincoln, Neb. The parent company plans to invest an estimated 150 Norwegian krone, upwards of $25.8 million at current rates of exchange, to double Lincoln’s production capability for Type IV all-composite compressed natural gas fuel cylinders – again.

“During the second half of 2013, Lincoln’s capacity will have doubled in relation to

its capacity in 2012,” states a release.

“The planned production line is expected to once again double the production capacity for CNG cylinders for the bus and truck market (Tuffshell) compared with the second half of 2013.

“This corresponds to four times the capacity in 2012.

The new production line is expected to be operational towards the end of 2014.”

“This investment will give Hexagon Lincoln an automated and dedicated production line aimed specifically at the production of pressure cylinders for larger vehicles,” the company says.

“Because of the great market potential for pressure cylinders for larger vehicles in the USA, we wish to take the lead with essential invest-ments so that we can meet customer needs,” said Hexagon Composites CEO Tore Fjell.

“We wish to establish an automated and cost-effective production line, so as to achieve the greatest possible competitive effect,” Fjell said.

Hexagon Lincoln, the former Lincoln Composites, is at Booth 540.

CNG Cylinders International (Booth 340) lays claim to manufacturing the world’s largest-diam-eter Type 3 cylinders – 23 inches – and says that they fill far faster than competing Type IVs.

During a Powertech Labs study, CNGci says, both cylinder types were fast-filled to a final pressure of 4,175 psi, and weighed to determine their actual CNG content.

“At 250 psi starting pressure (10% fill condi-tion) the difference was a staggering 37% greater fill for the Type III,” CNGci says. “This is sim-ple physics: the heat dissipation of the aluminum liner is far superior to the plastic liner in a Type IV design.”

In terms of customer value, a Type III cylin-der from CNGci adds 9.6 diesel gallon equiva-lents (or 58 miles at 6 mpg) of range per tank with fast fill at 4,175 psi. “Over the course of a year,” states CNGci, “that results in 28% less fuel stops, compared to a Type IV cylinder.”

Put another way, a truck equipped with three

400-liter tanks logging 125,000 miles per year (at 6 mpg) “will save 76 fuel stops each year.”

“This result is a game-changer when it comes to a comparison of Type III versus Type IV,” says CNGci president Siggy Rivalta. The dif-ference is enough to change the CNG-vs-LNG equation, he says, predicting that the CNGci design “will become the industry standard mov-ing forward.”

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3M is at ACT Expo with its new Type IV cylinders for the first time, as Cob-ham brings knowhow from the aerospace composites sector to a new line of Type III – and later Type IV – CNG tanks. Veteran Type IV manufacturer Quantum is promoting a new process using discontinuous carbon fiber.

3M (Booth 360) said in 2011 that it would enter the Type IV all-compos-ite CNG tank business, applying a new matrix material to consolidate the tanks’ carbon fiber strength layer. 3M’s proprietary, nanopar-ticulate matrix resin is said to better translate

the strength properties of costly carbon – allowing for less fiber and reduced cost.

In February, 3M reported that the new tank had completed the NGV2-2007 certification process, and named initial upfitter customers including ACT Expo exhibitor Venchurs (Booth 211).

Cobham (Booth 443) is here to debut a new line of Type III (carbon fiber on aluminum) CNG tanks, with plans to introduce Type IV units as well. Cobham is starting with 88- and 150-liter Type IIIs.

Quantum (Booth 518) earlier this month proclaimed “a breakthrough” in Type IV CNG tank manufacturing, describing a combination of selective fiber placement and discontinuous reinforcing fibers it said can result in a reduction of more than 20% in material utilization – making CNG tanks both lighter and cheaper.

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Xperion Energy & Environment – “xperion” – reports its selection as a Tier 1 supplier of X-Store brand lightweight high pressure CNG cylinders for the new Audi A3 G-tron. The five-door, compressed natural gas-gasoline bi-fuel “sportback” is Audi’s first natural gas vehicle. It’s

to go on sale in Europe at the end of the year.Audi’s own A3 G-tron literature talks up the

made-in-Germany tanks: the lightweight cylin-ders are manufactured with a gas-impermeable polyamide matrix inner layer, Audi explains, with a second layer of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer

(for strength), while a third layer of glass fiber reinforced polymer provides damage protection.

Xperion also supplies its Type IV tanks to Volvo Cars in Sweden, including the just-publi-cized V60 Bi-Fuel with fuel system by Westport Innovations. The V60 Bi-Fuel is to go on sale in Sweden in October.

Xperion is exhibiting with Westport at Booth 545.

Audi’s new A3 G-tron and Volvo’s new V60

Bi-Fuel both use lightweight Type IV CNG fuel cylinders

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Argentina’s Argentoil says it has secured NGV2:2007 certification of its new Inflex brand Type IV all-composite CNG cylinder by the international certification organization Bureau Veritas.

“This cutting-edge product makes us the only company in Latin America that manufactures Type I, Type II and Type IV,” the company says.

The Unites States “is our target market,” says Argentoil VP Juan Carlos Fracchia.

The new Type IV Inflex tanks come in liter volume sizes of 60 to 155, with the larger able to hold 13.7 gasoline gallon equivalents or 12 DGE diesel gallon equivalents.

The Inflex Type IV line is to be extended soon to include 250-liter cylinders – sufficient for 22 GGE and 19.3 DGE.

Argentoil has manufactured compressed nat-ural gas fuel cylinders for more than 45 years. More than 5 million have been sold, in more than 40 countries, “without having experienced a single accident,” the firm says.

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Franklin, Pennsylvania-based CNG One Source emerged this year as the buyer of Emission Solu-tions, Inc., which specialized in converting Navi-star International engines, notably the 7.6-liter DT 466, to spark-ignition dedicated-natural gas operation.

ESI entered bankruptcy last year after Navi-star said it would offer natural gas trucks with Cummins Westport engines.

CNG One Source (Booth 670) says that its ESI buy took place on April 4, and that it “will be moving all operations of the former Texas company to Erie, Pennsylvania.”

Another top priority is re-affirming U.S. EPA certification of the 7.6-liter ESI engine, says CNG One Source president Karen Tes-lovich, for both new engines and for older IUL and OUL (intermediate useful life and outside useful life) units.

“The purchase of ESI will allow CNG One

Source to further develop the industry for medium and heavy duty natural gas vehicles,” Teslovich said. “Cummins Westport and now CNG One Source will be able to offer multiple engine types for consumers to operate their vehicles on a dedicated natural gas platform.”

Teslovich told Fleets & Fuels that CNG One Source will build on ESI’s work, adding some of its own technology to expand to a spark-ignition version of International’s 9.3-liter engine.

Another priority is establishing a national dealer network for service and support beyond the Erie region, she says.

CNG One Source offers both vehicle conver-sions and CNG fueling installations: ”We want to be one point of contact for people who want to convert their fleets,” Teslovich says.

That includes consulting work to determine if the switch to CNG is a good idea for a particular fleet, converting vehicles, building a CNG fuel-ing station, maintaining said station, and improv-ing and expanding it in future. CNG One Source will also offer training.

Suppliers include Bauer (Booth 509) and Knox Western for compressors, and CNG Cylinders International (340) for fuel tanks and such fueling station components as easy-to-use TK-17 pistol-grip nozzles from WEH Technologies (251).

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None of the vehicles is available to the public, yet – but they form the backbone of a campaign to share the vision of using America’s vast resources of clean-burning natural gas for consumer cars, said Marty Durbin, president & CEO of America’s Natural Gas Alliance.

“We need to start the conversa-tion with the public, automakers and policymakers,” he said here, to create demand from the ground up.

Kathryn Clay, executive director of the Drive Natural Gas Initiative (a collaboration between ANGA and the American Gas Associa-tion), says the roadshow will travel to at least three more large-scale venues this year, as well as to the Kansas State Fair in the fall – “We

would love to do more of that sort of event,” she said.

Ride-and-drives are planned with policymakers at the state and federal level.

Clay noted that of the 15 million CNG vehicles worldwide, only one percent are operated in the U.S.

The six cars in the roadshow are fitted with small CNG tanks that will provide 80% of the driv-ing needs of the average American, she said. They range from muscle cars to SUV to premium sedans.

The NGVs will help free the consumer from the gas station too, as it will be possible to fuel with CNG at home. And the small size of the CNG tank doesn’t compro-mise room in the trunk.

Four of the cars – the Ford Mus-tang GT, Hyundai Sonata, BMW X3 and GMC Acadia Denali – were upfitted by Michigan’s CarLab. The Chrysler 300C Award and Honda CRV were done by Landi Renzo USA (Booth 347).

CNG range varies from 55 miles in the Mustang to 180 miles in the Honda, and ANGA’s projected cost of the conversions – assuming automak-ers can move 20,000 units (not a wild prospect given the success of hybrids) ranges from $2,800 to $4,800.

ANGA Roadshow Aims to Create CNG Demand

Kathryn Clay, executive director of the Drive Natural Gas Initiative hopes that the buzz generated here will spread nationwide.

Six popular consumer vehicles converted to run on compressed natural gas and gasoline were unveiled here Tuesday as the second stop of a national roadshow designed to bring CNG to the driving public.

It ain’t heavy! Karen Teslovich of CNG One Source explains how a bi-fuel CNG gasoline intake manifold for a Ford F-150 works. Her Erie, Pa.-based company is showing an ‘ESI-plus’ DT 466 engine converted to dedicated natural gas operation too.




It’s “a package that will easily fit into their exist-ing fueling station at an affordable price,” says Bauer business development director Paula Hebert, with “the looks and options suitable for public fast fill applications as well as private fleet applications.”

“The smaller footprint, modular attractive

design, and great value is a perfect solution for adding CNG.”

Bauer (Booth 509) also offers a Micro series for compressed natural gas vehicle fueling, noting ease of installation – Micro units can be driven by single- or three-phase power – and an afford-able price: as low as $25,000.

“It’s a great compressor for fleets just transi-tioning into CNG,” Hebert says.

The Micro series CNG system offers multi-vehicle flexibility, Bauer says, and is suitable for both time- and fast-fill applications, with a small, convenient footprint. “This system has the high-est durability rating, with Bauer Compressor’s unmatched reliability.”

Bauer’s skid-mounted Micro units have air-cooled, pressure-lubricated, continuous-duty rated, multi-stage reciprocating compressors. They include vapor recovery and a gas dryer.

Bauer compressors carry a two-year parts and labor warranty.

Virginia-based Bauer Compressors is emphasizing a new “large duty” compressor for small fleets and retail CNG outlets, repackaging its C28 as the C28.0 – or C28.0S with optional three-pack ASMR storage tanks.

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The Iowa-based Renewable Energy Group is coming off of its best-ever quarter, with volumes up 14% and net income better than tripled, and sees even better times ahead as LCFS, Califor-nia’s low carbon fuels standard, takes full effect.

“The low carbon fuel credits are starting to provide meaningful value,” says Eric Bowen, VP of corporate business develop-ment and legal affairs. “We’re seeing volume as a result,” he says.

“We’ve seen a significant change in people’s acceptance of higher blends,” Bowen says, and “increas-ing demand from fleets across the country.”

REG, which makes biodiesel from inedible (non-food) corn oil, recycled

cooking oil, and animal fats, sold 39 million gal-lons of product during the first quarter of 2013, up 14% compared with the first three months of 2012.

Net income for REG (Booth 420) rose to $46 million from $14 million for the first quarter of 2012.

REG has updated its inedible corn oil-based biodiesel plant at Lea, Minn., and just last week started pro-duction based on feeds including ani-mal fats at New Boston, Texas.

According to Bowen, “2013 is shaping up to be the best year that California biodiesel has ever had.”

“What you’re going to see,” he says, “is a sea-change.”

REG sales and marketing director Jon Schar-ingson will discuss “Biodiesel’s Role as a Drop-In Performance Fuel For Your Fleet” at the Liquid Biofuels session at 3:30pm today. Room 204A



Chicago’s Alpha Baking, a national distributor “and home to the iconic S. Rosen’s brand,” has picked Pen-ske Truck Leasing for maintenance of 2013 Roush CleanTech propane autogas-powered Ford E-450 bread delivery trucks.

Alpha Baking is introducing the 22 propane autogas trucks in its headquarters area “to reduce emissions while also continuing to meet its operational performance needs and factory warranty without a decrease in engine horsepower or torque.” The new alt fuel vehicles

were officially put into service two weeks ago during a ceremony with Chicago Area Clean Cities at Alpha Baking’s North Aurora truck depot.

“After much research and test-ing the time has arrived for Alpha Baking to integrate propane auto-gas equipment into our fleet,” said Alpha VP and logistics director Bob McGuire.

“The technology is here and it is affordable.”

“Penske has been maintaining alternative fueled fleets of vehicles for more than a decade around the country,” said Penske Truck Leas-ing sales VP Jack Sullivan.

His firm already provides full-service truck leasing and mainte-nance to Alpha, and will now take

on support of the new AFVs.Alpha has plants in Illinois, Indi-

ana and Wisconsin, employs more than 1,400 people and has more

than 300 trucks in its delivery fleet. Penske is at Booth 643, Roush

CleanTech is at 419, and Clean Cities is at 367.

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In a move “that will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector,” the National Biodiesel Board said this month that it is opening its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers.

The decision “consolidates under one tent the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry, creating a stronger and more effective voice for both,” NBB said.

“While produced with different tech-nologies, biodiesel and renewable diesel are close cousins with a lot of shared interests, particularly in policy areas such as the RFS and the blender’s tax incen-tive,” said NBB CEO Joe Jobe.

“Joining forces puts us in a much stronger position as a coalition to make our voice heard and spread the word that these policies are working and that advanced biofuels are here today.”

NBB says it will represent the entire biomass-based diesel category under the RFS, the U.S. EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard. NBB is at Booth 321.

Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Join Forces

Penske Truck Leasing is taking on propane in Chicago.

REG Resurgence Thanks to LCFS

With Low Carbon Fuels Standard, Biodiesel Begins to Pay in California

Tanks are increasingly important as REG’s

biodiesel volumes soar.

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2013 Clean Cities Hall of Fame Inductees

Industry Marathon Champions

Alternative Transportation Pioneer

Yvonne AndersonCentral Oklahoma Clean Cities Coordinator

Serving since 1998

American HondaNatural Gas Civic

Longest continuously available light-duty dedicated AFV product line

Rita Ebert Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition Coordinator

Serving since 2007

Cummins WestportNatural gas truck and bus engines

Longest continuously available heavy-duty dedicated AFV product line

Melissa HowellKentucky Clean Cities Partnership Coordinator

Clean Cities’ longest-tenured coordinator, serving since 1994

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program marks its 20th anniversary in 2013, celebrating

two decades of progress toward energy independence in transportation.

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Boulder Electric Vehicle (Booth 216) reports a demonstration of bi-directional DC fast charging with Michigan’s Coritech Services, making Boulder “the first electric truck company ever to successfully implement Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) charging.”

Boulder and Coritech prom-ise onsite demonstrations of their turnkey V2G solution here, using a Boulder battery electric flatbed utility truck with a 72-kilowatt-hour lithium battery pack and a 60-kilowatt Coritech DC fast charge system.

“Demonstrations are seeing charger rates of 150 amps during charge or discharge on the 360V nominal battery pack,” Boulder said Tuesday.

“We recognize the importance of V2G in turning EVs into energy

storage for the grid,” said Boulder CEO Carter Brown. “We now have a solution ready for immedi-ate deployment that will allow 50 electric trucks to offer 3 megawatts of energy on tap.”

“ACT Expo is the perfect forum,” he said, to show it.

“V2G is one of the key appli-cations of smart grid technologies which will help realize the eco-nomic value of mass deployment”

of EVs,” Boulder says.The system on show here,

Boulder says, is based on the inter-face specification for the Penta-gon’s SPIDERS Phase II program (SPIDERS stands for Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security). Southwest Research Institute will supply grid aggregation service between the Coritech gear and the grid.

“We are proud to provide sys-tem solutions today for the realiza-tion of V2G DC Fast Charging and to be working with Boulder Electric Vehicle to ensure the entire system works together flawlessly,” said Russ Ristau of Coritech.

The companies are working toward a further V2G demon-stration late summer 2013 at Fort Carson, Colo.


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Backers of vehicle-to-grid technology – which can put electric vehicle batteries in service to electric utilities, thereby increasing their value – reported late in April that for the first time, “batteries in road-going cars have been used to provide revenue generating ancillary services for the power grid.”

As part of a V2G project dubbed Grid on Wheels, Palo Alto, Calif.-based EV Grid announced the “successful fulfillment of, and payment for hour-ahead bids into PJM’s grid regulation ancillary services market.”

“We got a check,” said EV Grid founder and CEO Tom Gage.

PJM is an RTO, or regional transmission organization, that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity. As part of the Grid on Wheels initiative, EV Grid has provided 30 specially equipped, Mini E electric vehicles “aggregated,” EV Grid says, “as a 100-kilowatt dispatchable power resource.”

“Our cars got paid for plugging in because they were able and available to respond to the commands of the grid operator,” Gage says.

In 2011, the University of Delaware and NRG Energy, of Princeton, N.J., formed a joint venture

to explore the commercial potential of V2G. At about the same time, Gage started EV Grid. BMW was interested and offered off-lease Mini Es. The Mini E is readily adaptable for V2G because it is equipped with an 18-kilowatt bi-directional charger from AC Propulsion. Gage is a former president of AC Propulsion.

“PJM Interconnection controls a large grid region that stretches from the East Coast to Illi-nois,” he explains. “When they needed more juice the cars gave it up. When PJM had too much juice, the cars took it in.

“We’ve been working on V2G for years,” Gage says. “The big question was always, ‘How much money do you get?’ Now we know because we got a check from PJM.”

“This demonstrates that EVs can provide both mobility and stationary power while helping mak-ing the grid more resilient and ultimately gener-ating revenue for electric vehicle owners,” NRG executive VP Denise Wilson said in April.

“For the month of March, with the first 15 cars, we got about $5 per day per car,” says Gage. “Just as important, the cars that we provided were aggregated, so that together, they could offer – and deliver – 100 kilowatts into PJM’s market.”

The Grid on Wheels Project is a collabora-tion operated out of the University of Delaware in Newark. UDel has been studying and promot-ing V2G since 1997.

“With BMW’s help, we set up a service hub in Delaware at AutoPort, Inc. near Wilmington so we could upfit and maintain the cars near the Univer-sity,” Gage said in EV Grid’s April announcement.

“The V2G upfit was pretty simple,” he says. “We added a high-current J1772 charge connec-tor and the V2G system... I’d like to say we just plugged them in and started counting the money, but of course it wasn’t that easy. The institutional and transactional issues are as much of a challenge as the technical issues.”

“It has many tentacles.” EV Grid will provide additional Mini Es

to Grid on Wheels, and in collaboration with AutoPort, will introduce the eVan, an all-electric Ford E-250 commercial vehicle re-powered with a V2G-capable power system.

Gage is speaking at the Show Me the Money – Total Cost of Ownership session at 8:30am Thursday in Room 209A.

Mini E Batteries Yield Grid Gold at V2G Installation in Delaware

‘We Got a Check,’ Says EV Grid

EV Grid provided 30 specially equipped BMW Mini E electric vehicles ‘aggregated as a 100-kilowatt dispatchable power resource.’

Boulder EV Claims the First V2G for Battery TrucksBoulder is demonstrating V2G using a

100% battery electric flatbed utility truck with a 72-kilowatt-hour lithium battery pack

and a 60-kilowatt DC fast charge system by Coritech Services.

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