CNG News 3/10
Light, sweet crude slipped 32 cents to close at $105.15 per barrel on New York Mercantile Exchange, but only after briefly surpassing $106 on Friday. (3/7/2008)
Time for everyone to look more seriously at Natural Gas for Vehicle Fuel!
* Less than $1.50 per gallon when fueling at home with a FuelMaker, We do that!
* Less than $2.50 per gallon at an Arizona public CNG station ( Only .639 in Utah and .91 per gallon in Oklahoma ) How's that for helping our business costs?
* Cleaner than Unleaded, 99% Cleaner in a Honda Civic GX!
* Domestically produced - American Fuel!!
* Renewable too! With current Landfill gas and Dairy biogas projects going on across the nation, Does Not Compete For Food!
* Petroleum Independence, save on fuel costs, better for our land and our air quality, better for our struggling economy and local businesses!
* Single occupant HOV lane access & reduced license plate fees in Arizona
* $4000.00 Federal Tax Credit on the Natural Gas Honda GX
* $1000.00 Federal Tax Credit on Home Alternative Fueling Equipment such as Phill or other FuelMaker equipment.
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Volkswagen showed a natural gas vehicle, the Passat Estate TSI EcoFuel. Powered by a 150-horsepower TSI direct-injection engine, the Passat Estate TSI EcoFuel shows that a natural-gas powered vehicle doesn’t have to be mild mannered, yet only consumes 5.2 kilograms of gas per 100 kilometers (60 miles). The Passat and Passat Estate TSI EcoFuel are scheduled to go on sale near the end of 2008.
Another natural-gas-powered vehicle in Geneva was the Volkswagen Caddy Maxi EcoFuel with room for seven passengers. With five CNG storage bottle located under the vehicle, the Caddy Maxi EcoFuel can store 37 kilograms of gas for a range of 600 kilometers (approximately 373 miles) and automatically switches to gasoline when the natural gas is used.
Offered in both passenger and panel-van versions, the Caddy Maxi EcoFuel’s natural gas storage does not impact passenger or cargo capacity.
"For Hyundai, blue is their way of being green. The South Korean automaker showed three concepts aimed at reducing CO2 and fuel consumption, identified by i-blue badges, including the i30 blue, i10 blue and the i10 blue CNG (compressed natural gas).
But don't be quick to judge and label these vehicles as another Toyota Prius or the natural-gas-powered Honda Civic GX. Think of i-blue as a package that combines different technologies to reduce pollution without compromising performance for each model.
While each car has a different combination of i-blue features, the overall package helps accomplish the same goals: improve aerodynamics; increase engine and transmission efficiency and provide a finer tuned chassis.
The i30 5-door's 88-horsepower 1.6 CRDi diesel engine emits 125 g/km CO2. But with the i-blue package, it is reduced by 15.2 percent to 106 g/km. For the entry-level i10 blue, CO2 emissions are reduced by 17 percent to 95 g/km but the most impressive of the three is the i10 blue CNG. The 98-horsepower 0.8-liter 3-cylinder turbocharged engine combined with a CNG application emits just 65 g/km CO2.
"The i-blue concept cars can be thought of as an introduction of features that will naturally evolve in future Hyundai cars. But if distributor, dealer and public demand justifies it, this could become a stand-alone eco-dynamic model range," said Hans van Gent of Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH."
March 26-27, 2008
Orange, California
A who's who of experts will be on hand March 26-27 in Orange, California, to talk about the rapidly growing marketplace for natural gas. Fleets interested in exploring the latest developments on policy, funding, vehicles, emissions and economics, are invited to sign up today for the two-day Forum, hosted by the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute and the Natural Gas Vehicle Institute. Speakers include:
"Significant recent developments have redefined the natural gas playing field," said Leo Thomason, Executive Director of the Natural Gas Vehicle Institute. "From port regulations that focus the spotlight on liquefied natural gas to fuel prices that are minimally $1.50 per gallon more than natural gas, the marketplace has aligned to draw renewed attention to this clean burning fuel."
Participants will hear from small volume manufacturers as well as original equipment manufacturers including American Honda, Baytech Corporation, BAF Technologies, Cummins Westport, Emission Solutions, Kenworth and Westport Innovations. Fuel and infrastructure providers include ANGI International, Clean Energy, GreenField, Pinnacle, and Trillium USA.
Sign up today for the Forum that could instantly shave thousands of dollars off your fleet operating costs. To register, click here.
Gazel, a major builder of natural gas infrastructure in Columbia and a division of Promigas, will be installing
30 CNG Public Stations in Mexico with an expected investment of 45 million dollars over 5 years including infrastructure and pipelines. Looks like they know CNG is going somewhere!
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