WasteCon-APWA and NGV Summit 2010

Live news from WasteCon 2010, 2010 APWA and NGV Summit. Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the American Public Works Association’s Annual Congress and Exhibition, co-located at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Mass. and preceded by NGVAmerica’s National NGV Conference-Summit.

Autocar Is Launching a CNG Hydraulic Hybrid for 2011

Autocar Is Launching a CNG Hydraulic Hybrid for 2011

Hybrid? Natural Gas? Soon You Can Have It All. Craig Teune, sales chief Cliff Buck, Jon Loftis and Brian Rhoades of Autocar with CNG-fueled Xpeditor truck with body by Labrie. “This time next year, mid-summer, we intend to introduce the hybrid RunWise system on CNG power,” says Autocar sales manager Cliff Buck. Clients are getting the...
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Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes WasteCon-APWA Complete Issues

Our complete issues from the WasteCon and APWA conference and expo are available here in digital flipbook format, bringing you the natural gas and hybrid truck news of these events as well as the news of the NGV Summit held days prior. Complete and downloadable PDF versions can be found at http://www.ctnpublishing.com/samples.html. August 15, 2010...
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Photos – WasteCon-APWA & NGV Summit 2010

Images from combined WasteCon and APWA 2010 conferences and expos and the 2010 NGV Summit all held in Boston in August. Additionally, this collection includes all images published in Fleets & Fuels ShowTimes’ two live news magazines distributed at these events. Select photo to view enlargement and caption. Boston 2010: APWA-NGV Summit-WasteCon American LaFrance vehicle with hydraulic...
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Hydraulic Freightliner a First for Eaton’s HLA

Hydraulic Freightliner a First for Eaton’s HLA

The first Freightliner (an M2 112 chassis) with a parallel hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Eaton is being shown by Pennsylvania’s GSP Marketing/GS-Products at WasteCon 3531. Freightliner M2 112 chassis with a Eaton parallel hydraulic hybrid drivetrain The Eaton HLA drivetrain — for Hydraulic Launch Assist — was installed by Fontaine Modifications (APWA 1147) in Charlotte, N.C. It...
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GESI Is Now Handling Larger BRC Compressors

GESI Is Now Handling Larger BRC Compressors

Southern California’s Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. (WasteCon 3079 in the NGV Zone) continues to grow, having this year broadened its product line by adding BRC FuelMaker compressors with capacities up to 1,000 standard cubic feet per minute, allowing for faster fill for refuse industry fleets. Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. president Larry Ozier with BRC GM...
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Heil to Offer In-House CNG Trucks

Heil to Offer In-House CNG Trucks

“We are quickly bringing it in-house,” says Nate Davis, product manager for Heil Environmental (WasteCon 2713). He’s talking about compressed natural gas-fueled refuse trucks, which Heil is building now with the help of an outside CNG fuel system vendor. Heil’s plan is to do the work at its own facilities in Fort Payne, Ala. The...
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America, Get on Board

America, Get on Board

NGV Global’s Brett Jarman fills up in Zurich. “This is probably the most exciting market in the world and is growing into the most important market in the world,” says Brett Jarman, executive director of NGV Global, the world trade association. He’s here from Australia, jubilant that the world’s biggest economy appears to be embracing...
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Georgia Biomethane Is Going Out to Bid

Georgia Biomethane Is Going Out to Bid

Billy Malone of Georgia’s DeKalb County is a national leader in landfill-derived biomethane for fueling vehicles. The number of compressed natural gas fueling stations in Georgia will jump eightfold by the end of 2012 to eight — from just one now. Though that isn’t a huge number, it is a huge expansion of infrastructure, says Billy...
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Linde-WM for More Landfill-Derived LNG

Linde-WM for More Landfill-Derived LNG

Waste Management Autocar at Altamont Waste Management (WasteCon 2927) and Linde are developing their second landfill gas-based facility for fueling natural gas vehicles, applying $11 million in California Energy Commission money to develop a plant in Simi Valley, between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The new unit will follow on the two firms’ $15.5 million...
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Clean Energy Likes the Refuse Sector

Clean Energy Likes the Refuse Sector

Ray Burke, VP at Clean Energy Fuels of Seal Beach, Calif. “The solid waste sector is probably our fastest growing sector,” says Ray Burke, VP at Clean Energy Fuels of Seal Beach, Calif. Clean Energy (WasteCon 3155), founded by Boone Pickens and now a public company, is the volume leader in natural gas vehicle fueling, and...
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