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The Buzz: This Week’s Natural Gas Vehicle Top News

Here’s a round up of this week’s natural gas vehicle news, and there was lots to talk about!

Big business groups to boost natural gas in New Jersey

Worried that New Jersey’s access to natural gas supplies could be jeopardized by lobbying from environmentalists opposed to increased use of fossil fuels, a band of big business groups have organized a coalition to promote the use of the fuel.

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Staten Island Ferry to Run on Liquefied Natural Gas

The Staten Island Ferry will receive $2.340.000 in federal funding for a pilot program for conversion from diesel fuel to liquefied natural gas, U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced.

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TFC Recycling unveils private CNG-powered collection truck

TFC Recycling, a waste solutions and recycling service in the Mid-Atlantic, unveiled its first truck powered by compressed natural gas (CNG).

Read the full article here.

Congratulations to AT&T for the Deployment of #4,000…

Recently, AT&T deployed its 4,000th AFV in Chicago, IL; its 3,000th CNG in Houston, TX; and the 2,000th AFV of its California fleet in San Diego. All of the milestone vehicles are Ford E250 CNG vans.

The deployments are the latest in AT&T’s planned 10-year investment of up to $565 million to replace approximately 15,000 fleet vehicles with alternative-fuel models through 2018. Currently, the AT&T corporate fleet – which is part of the Department of Energy’s Clean Cities’ National Clean Fleets Partnership – features more than 71,500 vehicles and includes one of the largest U.S. corporate commitments to CNG vehicles to date. AT&T avoided the purchase of one million gallons of petroleum in 2010 as a result of its use of CNG vehicles.

By 2013, AT&T anticipates it will have purchased approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles at an anticipated cost of $350 million. AT&T expects to invest an additional $215 million through 2018 to replace approximately 7,100 fleet passenger cars with alternative-fuel models

To read more about AT&T’s sustainability efforts and to view a copy of AT&T’s 2010 Sustainability Report, please click here.

Talk About Back to the Future!!! Our Video Spotlight of the week is…

This is a great video of a classic GTO converted to natural gas….what we really love about it (besides the obvious natural gas upfitting) was that it really exemplified modern technology in a classic world.

Enjoy!

Happy Independence Day Weekend!

From all of us at Clean Vehicle Solutions, we wish you and your family a very happy Independence Day!

We also would like to take a moment to thank our wonderful service men and women who are protecting our rights as American citizens, and remember those who died in that service.

CNG Cabs Pull Ahead of the Traffic…

Southern California residents and visitors will soon be able to hail a taxi that runs on environmentally friendly compressed natural gas, or CNG.  Last week, we reported to you that Chicago had made the same very sensible, economical, pro-USA, environmentally friendly decision.

And, once again, I’ll ask again.  What’s with New York City?  Obviously not good thinking, just political thinking of some kind.  Japanese Manufacturer, with cars made in Mexico that only get 25 mpgs that SOMEDAY will MAYBE be electric.  It makes me tired.

At any rate, the good news this week is that Yellow Cab of Anaheim and Cabco Yellow Inc. of Orange County have ordered a combined 119 CNG-powered Ford Transit Connect Taxis, Ford Motor Co. Ford Motor Co. Follow this company said.

Ford said it expects to deliver the first 50 cabs within the next two months, while the rest are scheduled to be delivered by the end of the year.

The Ford dealership, South Bay Ford South Bay Ford Follow this company in Los Angeles, will deliver the taxis to the cab companies.

“The Transit Connect Taxi was developed using market research we conducted with the taxi industry to better understand what customers wanted in a future vehicle,” Gerald Koss, marketing manager at Ford Fleet Operations, said in a press release. “The more conversations we had, the more interest we saw in a taxi with the flexibility of offering a compressed natural gas version.”

Larry Gach, sales manager at Ford Commercial Truck Sales and Marketing, said he expects orders in California to increase after the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, approved the use of Transit Connect Taxis modified by BAF Technologies to run on CNG.

To receive CARB certification, a vehicle must demonstrate that its exhaust and evaporative emission control systems are durable and comply with the emission standards for the vehicle’s useful life.

Ford said use of its CNG cabs is growing nationwide. Chicago’s Taxi Medallion Management this week began using the 12 CNG taxis it bought earlier this year, and two taxi companies in Connecticut have ordered 70 CNG cabs, which they plan to put in service this summer.

Other cities where CNG Transit Connect Taxis have been ordered include Las Vegas and St. Louis, and city officials in Philadelphia recently approved it for use as well, Ford said.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, CNG is less expensive and burns cleaner than gasoline, resulting in 30 to 40 percent less greenhouse gas emissions.

Ford said it offers engine prep packages that allow conversions to CNG and liquefied propane gas.