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2013 RAM 2500 CNG Pickup Review By Larry Nutson +VIDEO

2013 RAM 2500 CNG Pickup Review By Larry Nutson +VIDEO

Compressed Natural Gas RAM 2500 The only OEM-built CNG pickup in North America By Larry Nutson Senior Editor, Chicago Bureau The Auto Channel (DSC_1552) I don’t consider myself a trucker. Therefore, I don’t drive and review pickups and usually turn them down when offered. I initially declined to drive a new 2 ... Continue reading

Audi Partners With Joule To Make Future Mobility Fuels With Micro-organisms

Audi Partners With Joule To Make Future Mobility Fuels With Micro-organisms

</p><p>By Henny Hemmes <br>Senior European Editor <br>The Auto Channel </p><p>THE HAGUE, January 9, 2013; In the quest to reduce fuel consumption and thus CO2 emissions of cars, Audi is developing synthetic natural gas, which the German car manufacturer refers to as Audi e-gas, (<a href=http://www.theautochannel.com/ne ... Continue reading

Car Maker Audi To Synthesize Sustainable Fuels

Car Maker Audi To Synthesize Sustainable Fuels

SEE ALSO: Real Patriots Use Flex-Fuel Vehicles By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor The Auto Channel THE HAGUE, January 8, 2013. In Northern Germany, Audi has an e-gas facility under construction together with system builder SolarFuel. It will be the world’s first facility to convert renewable electricity and CO ... Continue reading

Quantum Announces the Launch of Fully-Integrated and Assembled Advanced Natural Gas Fuel Storage System Solutions

Quantum Announces the Launch of Fully-Integrated and Assembled Advanced Natural Gas Fuel Storage System Solutions

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. , a leader in natural gas, alternative fuel systems and clean propulsion vehicle technologies, today announced the launch of pre-assembled, quality tested and fully-validated natural gas storage modules and system assemblies for quick integration on to a variety of vehi ... Continue reading

China Yuchai Leads Natural Gas Bus Engine Market in Shaanxi Province

China Yuchai Leads Natural Gas Bus Engine Market in Shaanxi Province

China Yuchai International Limited ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), announced today that natural gas engines produced by the Company's main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited ("GYMCL"), have been penetrating the key Shaanxi Province market in North-West China since their introduction in ea ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Announces Completion of First Stage of Its Nationwide Network of Natural Gas LNG Fueling Stations for Long-Haul, Heavy-Duty Freight Trucking

Clean Energy Announces Completion of First Stage of Its Nationwide Network of Natural Gas LNG Fueling Stations for Long-Haul, Heavy-Duty Freight Trucking

With the completion of its LNG truck fueling station in Matthews, Missouri this month, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. concludes the first stage of America's Natural Gas Highway (ANGH), a network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fueling stations to support long-haul, heavy-duty goods movement along major interstate corrid ... Continue reading

Energy Vision Publishes New Report Documenting Renewable Natural Gas as the Solution to a Major U.S. Transportation Challenge

Energy Vision Publishes New Report Documenting Renewable Natural Gas as the Solution to a Major U.S. Transportation Challenge

A newly released publication, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG): The Solution to a Major Transportation Challenge, reports that the use of renewable natural gas as a vehicle fuel is a technologically viable alternative to relying exclusively on petroleum-based fuels for transportation. The new publication was prepared by Ene ... Continue reading

Ryder's Natural Gas Fleet Surpasses 6 Million Miles

Ryder's Natural Gas Fleet Surpasses 6 Million Miles

Ryder System, Inc. , a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions, has achieved a significant milestone with its fleet of 250 natural gas vehicles surpassing six million miles. The fleet consists of 35 liquefied natural gas and 215 compressed natural gas tractors, currently running in 32 ... Continue reading

Chevrolet and GMC CNG Bi-Fuel Pickup Production Begins +VIDEO

Chevrolet and GMC CNG Bi-Fuel Pickup Production Begins +VIDEO

DETROIT - November 9, 2012: Production of the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra 2500 HD bi-fuel pickup trucks is underway in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the pickups are available for order by fleet and retail customers through Chevrolet and GMC dealers. The Silverado HD and Sierra 2500 HD Vortec 6.0L V8 engine runs ... Continue reading

Green Automotive Company Announces Order by Subsidiary Newport Coach Works to Build Buses for Don Brown Bus Sales

Green Automotive Company Announces Order by Subsidiary Newport Coach Works to Build Buses for Don Brown Bus Sales

Green Automotive Company (OTC:GACR) today announced that its subsidiary Newport Coach Works, Inc. signed a definitive distribution agreement for the manufacturing of buses over a two year period with Don Brown Bus Sales, Inc., one of North America's leading bus distributors, beginning November 1, 2012. Newport Coach Wo ... Continue reading

Clean Energy's CNG Fueling Stations Up and Operating in Storm's Path

Clean Energy's CNG Fueling Stations Up and Operating in Storm's Path

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. today reported that 49 fueling stations in the seven states affected by Hurricane Sandy are operating and providing CNG (compressed natural gas) fuel to a wide range of fleets and individuals. The fleets provide needed emergency, transit and refuse services in New York, New Jersey, Massachusett ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Releases Second Edition of 'Road to Natural Gas'

Clean Energy Releases Second Edition of 'Road to Natural Gas'

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. today released the second edition of “The Road to Natural Gas," an update of truck companies, refuse haulers, fleet operators, airports, municipalities and other organizations which are making the switch to natural gas with transportation fuel, station construction and services provided by Cle ... Continue reading

Production begins for Ram 2500 Compressed Natural Gas Truck; Availability expanded to retail customers

Production begins for Ram 2500 Compressed Natural Gas Truck; Availability expanded to retail customers

The first Ram 2500 Compressed Natural Gas pickup trucks have begun rolling off the line at Chrysler Group's Saltillo Truck Assembly Plant today. The start of Ram CNG production is timed perfectly to support the Company's announcement that the formerly fleet-only vehicle will now be available to retail customers. "We fe ... Continue reading

Experts: Sales Of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles, Including Hybrids And Plug-In Electric Cars, Shatter Records In 2012

Experts: Sales Of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles, Including Hybrids And Plug-In Electric Cars, Shatter Records In 2012

Setting the Record Straight on Misunderstood Topic, Alan Baum and NRDC Auto Expert to Detail Historic Highs in Average Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy, Conventional Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid Sales. Contrary to what is being suggested in some news accounts, the market for clean cars is thriving, with every major record f ... Continue reading

Aqua America Chairman Supports Government Mandates and State Grants to Fuel Demand for Compressed Natural Gas

Aqua America Chairman Supports Government Mandates and State Grants to Fuel Demand for Compressed Natural Gas

Aqua America, Inc. Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedictis said he supports the use of efficiency mandates for vehicle manufacturers to increase the use of clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) for cars and trucks. The remarks were made during today's Natural Gas Vehicle Seminar in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and sp ... Continue reading

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