• Honda Civic GX;
• Chevrolet Express Van
• Chevrolet Silverado pickup
• GMC Sierra pickup
• GMC Topkick
• Ford E-450 shuttle bus
• Ford Crown Victoria
• Ford F-150
• F-250 pickup
• Ford Van
• Ford E-350 cutaway

Currently, the NGV Co-Op is available only in Arizona, Nevada, and California but may expand at a later date. In this time of rapidly rising fuel costs, tight budgets, and vehicle emission regulations, purchasing natural gas vehicles is a sound economic and environmental decision.  Purchasing natural gas vehicles is also an ideal way for fleets to reduce emissions from their vehicles.  Exhaust emissions from a typical NGV are much lower than those from gasoline-powered vehicles. Natural gas vehicles also produce far fewer urban emissions than diesel vehicles. The NGV Co-Op team is currently developing vehicle specifications that will be sent to vehicle dealers. To get more information, fleets and car dealers selling natural gas vehicles can either contact Steve Sokolsky (ssokolsky@calstart.org; 510/307-8772) or Dave Kantor (dkantor@calstart.org 626/744-5611) or sign up on the CALSTART web site at www.calstart.org

San Diego Gets $9 Million for New Natural Gas Buses
San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System will be getting $9 million in state bond money to replace 50 aging diesel-burning buses with new compressed natural gas (CNG) models. The funds are part of the statewide distribution of $136 million in transportation bond money announced by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who noted that such funding "will encourage the use of public transit and give Californians an alternative to rising gas prices." "With the money we're receiving . we are able to retire buses that operate on diesel that are well beyond their useful life and have become very expensive to maintain with newer buses . that burn compressed natural gas for the benefit of the environment," said Harry Mathis, chairman of the Metropolitan Transit System board of directors. SDMTS officials said the 50 new buses will bring the system's fleet to nearly 100% CNG-powered.
Source: Governor hands S.D. $9 million for new buses, San Diego Union Tribune

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Philippines Seeks '100% Use' of CNG Public Transport by 2010
To help ease the burden of the continuing rise in the price of oil on the Philippine's public transport sector, the Philippine Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFR is gearing up for the use of 100% compressed natural gas (CNG) in public utility vehicles by 2010. "By 2010, all buses, taxis, and jeepneys [the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines] should be CNG operated," said LTFRB Chairman Thompson Lantion at a recent press conference. "This will be our direction. We will no longer be dependent on diesel because CNG is made locally, so it is cheaper," he added.
Source: LTFRB seeks public transport's '100% use' of CNG by 2010, Inquirer.net, Philippines