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Natural gas: Page 7
Is a glider kit the way to start using natural gas?
CCJ Equipment Editor Jack Roberts poses the question: With lower acquisition costs and some other perceived benefits, could nat gas glider kits help fleets make a transition away from diesel and toward alt fuel?
December 9, 2013
Clean Energy, UPS sign multi-year LNG fuel agreement
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and UPS announced a multi-year bulk fueling agreement to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to two private UPS stations located in Mesquite and Houston, Texas. Under a separate agreement with UPS, Clean Energy will open three of its America’s Natural Gas Highway stations located in Amarillo, Mesquite and San Antonio, Texas, to support UPS’ over-the-road […]
November 21, 2013
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Natural gas bluegrass: M&M Cartage plans to be the greenest carrier in Kentucky
In 1972, Don Hayden started working for the family business, M&M Cartage. The two things he enjoyed most in life were the two things he got paid to do: work for his dad and be around trucks. “I must have had diesel fuel in my blood,” he says. By the late 1990s he was making […]
November 19, 2013
Business
Video log: Fueling, driving natural gas glider kit
CCJ Equipment Editor Jack Roberts is on hand in Utah at a press event for Smith Power Products natural gas glider kits. Here are a few videos he’s shot and uploaded so far from his trip,
November 8, 2013
Business
Westport to halt 15-L natural gas engine orders
Westport announced it is halting orders for its 15-liter natural gas engine beginning on November 15. Click here to read Hardworking Trucks’s story on Westport’s decision and its plans for a new HPDI product in the future.
October 31, 2013
Business
M&M Cartage to invest $7.5 million in green initiative, CNG fleet
M&M Cartage plans to invest $7.5 million in building materials and capital equipment, allowing for the construction of a new Kentucky headquarters with green efficiencies to go along with the addition of new trucks powered by compressed natural gas. The Commonwealth of Kentucky awarded M&M Cartage $800,000 in economic incentives to spur the investment. “Not […]
October 31, 2013
Business
Clean Energy planning LNG terminal in Florida
Clean Energy Fuels announced plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on recently purchased land in Jacksonville, Fla. When completed, it would be the first LNG facility on the Eastern seaboard to specifically supply LNG for the maritime, heavy-duty trucking and rail industries. The planned facility is the first project to be developed by Eagle LNG Partners, the […]
October 30, 2013
Business
Blu. selects Ryder natural gas vehicles
Ryder System announced today that Blu., an operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) refueling stations and provider of LNG technology solutions, has selected Ryder to provide LNG vehicles for Blu. fleets in Utah and Georgia. This represents the first time Ryder has partnered with a fuel station operator to launch a natural gas vehicle offering. “This […]
October 29, 2013
Business
GE Capital, Clean Energy partner to push natural gas conversion in trucking
GE Capital Transportation Finance and Clean Energy Fuels have formed a partnership aimed at accelerating the conversion fleet among trucking companies from diesel-powered trucks to those using natural gas.
October 21, 2013
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