Peterbilt hosts ANGA presentation, showcases alternative fuel vehicles

Peterbilt Motors Company hosted America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) for an educational presentation showcasing Peterbilt’s family of alternative fuel vehicles, highlighting the lower operating costs, lower emissions benefits and the performance capabilities Peterbilt’s alternative vehicles offer. The meeting included test drives in Peterbilt’s alternative gas vehicles and a tour of the Denton manufacturing plant....

Biodiesel production reaches monthly high

US biodiesel production reached a new monthly high of 81 million gallons in June 2011, according to the latest Environmental Protection Agency statistics. This marks a third consecutive month of record volumes and continuing a turnaround in which biodiesel production in the first half of 2011 has already eclipsed production for all of 2010. ...

Ryder launches alternative fuels website

Ryder System Inc has launched a new alternative fuels website at www.ryder.com/alternativefuels to help users and fleet owners better understand how they can reduce transportation costs, while meeting sustainability objectives. ...

Volvo Trucks adding factory-installed natural gas option for VNM daycab

Volvo Trucks announces a natural gas-powered Volvo VNM daycab targeted at local and regional vocational applications. The natural gas option is ideal...

NBB supports renewable fuels proposal

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s latest renewable fuels proposal will provide stability for the nation’s biodiesel industry while helping to create jobs, improve the environment, and bolster US energy security, National Biodiesel Board Chief Executive Officer Joe Jobe testified recently. ...

Volvo Trucks adding factory-installed natural gas option for VNM daycab

Volvo Trucks announces a natural gas-powered Volvo VNM daycab targeted at local and regional vocational applications. The natural gas option is ideal for port drayage, pickup and delivery, grocery and beverage haulers, or any private fleet concerned about CO2 emissions...

Emco Wheaton meets urea challenge

Legislation, first introduced in 2009, has forced transport companies across North America to install special tanks containing “aqueous urea solutions” also known as AdBlue or DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) to reduce harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in diesel-powered vehicles. But it has raised another problem: the potential for accidental spillage and expensive contamination of fuels....

Clean Energy contracts
with Fair Oaks affiliate
to build CNG fuel station

Renewable Dairy Fuels, an affiliate of Indiana milk producer Fair Oaks Dairy, has contracted with Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (Nasdaq: CLNE) to build and operate a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station that will dispense CNG fuel to power the initial fleet of 42 CNG milk-hauling trucks the dairy plans to deploy later in 2011....

Drive tire features Fuel Max technology

Goodyear is putting more tread on the road while leaving more diesel in the tank with the introduction of its new G572 LHD drive tire with Fuel Max technology. EPA SmartWay-verified, the G572 LHD features 30/32nds of tread. ...

Freightliner 114SD SBA includes NG option

At the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach CA recently, Freightliner Trucks announced that its new 114 Severe Duty (SD) set-back...

Hybrid Truck Users Forum set for October

The nation’s advanced-trucking eyes will focus on Baltimore MD in October 2011, when the city hosts the 11th annual Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) national conference, CALSTART announced...

Blackmer pump designed for use with DEF

Blackmer has announced the availability of a new positive displacement sliding vane pump model—the STX1220A-DEF—that has been designed specifically for use in applications that require the handling of Diesel Exhaust Fluid ...

Distrigas LNG goes to Connecticut station

Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC, a subsidiary of GDF SUEZ Energy North America, announced that it is providing LNG (liquefied natural gas) to the first LNG refueling station east of the Mississippi River....

Workshop will examine alternative fuels

Transportation professionals are invited to learn about the capabilities of propane autogas and other alternative fuels at a free training workshop hosted by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) and Alternative Fuels Trade Alliance members....

National NGV Fleet Forum is established

Leading national fleet operators announced the formation of the Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Fleet Forum, a new membership organization dedicated to advancing the use of natural gas in the US transportation sector. The effort was announced at the 2011 Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, a showcase of clean, alternative fuel vehicles...