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Heavy Duty Vehicle Rules Undervalue Benefits of NGVs, According to NGVAmerica

Heavy Duty Vehicle Rules Undervalue Benefits of NGVs, According to NGVAmerica

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation today released a 958-page document that includes new regulations that will reduce emissions and increase the fuel economy for medium and heavy-duty trucks. But NGVAmerica strongly believes that the rules could have been even more effecti ... Continue reading

Augrid Global Holdings Signs Acquisition Letter of Intent with Red Roadster

Augrid Global Holdings Signs Acquisition Letter of Intent with Red Roadster

Augrid Global Holdings Corp. (OTCBBO: AGHD) and Red Roadster Corporation Corp. has announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent ["LOI"] to explore the acquisition by Augrid of Red Roadster Corporation. Red Roadster Corporation is a privately-held Nevada corporation which created and sells the unique three-wh ... Continue reading

Quantum Awarded Follow-on Contract for High Capacity Ultra-Light Weight Carbon Composite Natural Gas Vehicle Storage Systems for Light-Duty Trucks

Quantum Awarded Follow-on Contract for High Capacity Ultra-Light Weight Carbon Composite Natural Gas Vehicle Storage Systems for Light-Duty Trucks

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that it has secured a purchase contract for 200 additional ultra-light weight high capacity compressed natural gas (CNG) storage systems from a large US natural gas vehicle integrator of light-duty trucks. With the price of natural gas projected to stay ... Continue reading

Green Car UK Launches Of 2011

Green Car UK Launches Of 2011

Posted by Catherine Jones, ToyotaPlace.Com http://www.toyotaplace.comon August 6, 2011 The Green car launches of 2011 Go green is the buzz phrase of the year. Be it food, clothes or even cars. Everybody has been bitten by the green bug and is trying to become more eco-friendly. Many of the auto majors announced at the ... Continue reading

Florida School District Makes Historic Conversion of Bus Fleet to Natural Gas Through Public-Private Partnership with nopetro

Florida School District Makes Historic Conversion of Bus Fleet to Natural Gas Through Public-Private Partnership with nopetro

A Florida public school district is switching its school bus fleet to natural gas, cutting fuel costs by up to 40 percent and reaping the benefit of private sales, thanks to a landmark partnership with a company that is building a network of CNG and LNG fueling stations around the state. ... Continue reading

The Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicle Market to Grow At A CAGR Of 7.7 Percent over the Period of 2010 through 2014

The Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicle Market to Grow At A CAGR Of 7.7 Percent over the Period of 2010 through 2014

Research and Markets (has announced the addition of the "Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicle Market 2010-2014" report to their offering. Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Vehicle Market 2010-2014 Tax Incentives Encouraging Use of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles Technavio's report, which examines the APAC, Ame ... Continue reading

Go60MPG Launches Radio Advertising Aimed At Law Makers

Go60MPG Launches Radio Advertising Aimed At Law Makers

Washington, July, 25, 2011; With a decision imminent from the Obama Administration on new fuel efficiency and emissions standards for 2017-2025 vehicles, Go60MPG is launching a radio advertising campaign encouraging Americans to deliver the message to the White House that the best way to offer relief at the gas pump is ... Continue reading

Honda Picks Environmental Consulting Firm to Promote Civic Natural Gas Sedan on U.S. East Coast

Honda Picks Environmental Consulting Firm to Promote Civic Natural Gas Sedan on U.S. East Coast

Honda has selected an environmental consulting firm to support market development for the Civic Natural Gas in 19 states spanning the Mid-West to Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions including the District of Columbia. Below are more details. Gladstein, Neandross & Associates Selected By American Honda to Promote the Hon ... Continue reading

An Liquefied Natural Gas Liquefaction Capacity of 187.4 Million Metric Tons Per Annum Will Be Added Globally by 2016

An Liquefied Natural Gas Liquefaction Capacity of 187.4 Million Metric Tons Per Annum Will Be Added Globally by 2016

LONDON--An LNG liquefaction capacity of 187.4 million metric tons per annum (MMtpa) is expected to be added globally by 2016, according to a new report on companiesandmarkets.com. The increase in LNG liquefaction capacity is attributed to major planned LNG terminals in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Angola, Russia ... Continue reading

Automakers Lobby Works to Stall Higher MPG Standards

Automakers Lobby Works to Stall Higher MPG Standards

Washington DC July 21, 2011; The NADA newsletter reported that the auto industry is pressing the Obama administration for a promise to reevaluate rules that may more than double U.S. fuel economy standards by 2025 before they become final. The White House agrees that a review during the transition period is needed, sai ... Continue reading

LPG (CNG) Saves 40% of Converted Mazda 6 Running Costs

LPG (CNG) Saves 40% of Converted Mazda 6 Running Costs

LPG GIVEN FLEET BOOST AFTER MAZDA DEMO Autogas has seen a surge in interest from fleet managers following the conversion of a Mazda 6 to run on LPG. Autogas and Mazda invited fleet managers to get behind the wheel of the converted Mazda 6 LPG and discover how they can run a greener fleet whilst saving up to 40 per cent ... Continue reading

Top American CNG Producer Chesapeake Energy Unveils Bold Plan to Break the OPEC-Gasoline Stranglehold on Our Economy - VIDEO ENHANCED

Top American CNG Producer Chesapeake Energy Unveils Bold Plan to Break the OPEC-Gasoline Stranglehold on Our Economy - VIDEO ENHANCED

OKLAHOMA CITY--In an effort to help break OPEC's 38-year stranglehold on the U.S. economy and to lower energy costs to American consumers, enhance national security, stimulate economic growth, create hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and improve the environment, Chesapeake Energy Corporation today unveiled its ... Continue reading

Cyclone Power Technologies Files Registration with Securities and Exchange Commission

Cyclone Power Technologies Files Registration with Securities and Exchange Commission

Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it has filed a Form 10 registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No shares of the Company's stock have been registered for sale or resale under this filing. ... Continue reading

Biotechnology Industry Organization Calls for Government Backed Leadership

Biotechnology Industry Organization Calls for Government Backed Leadership

The 2011 Leadership Summit, hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), addressed the economic obstacles and environmental impacts for biotechnologies in transforming how food, fuel and other products are produced. ... Continue reading

"Number One" Is Done, Make OPEC "Number Two" - An Open Letter To President Obama

"Number One" Is Done, Make OPEC "Number Two" - An Open Letter To President Obama

4-5 dollar gasoline, OPEC screwing up the American economy, oli company getting 10 billion in subsidies from the government... its all gotta stop. ... Continue reading

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