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  • UPS natural gas fueling station

    Natural gas vehicles were first promoted starting in about 2000 as a way to reduce reliance on imported oil and cut tailpipe emissions. Their promise appeared to grow near the height of the global financial crisis, when gas prices hovered around $4 per gallon across much of the United States. The domestic fuel promised to cut carbon-dioxide emissions and cut fuel costs for drivers—at a time when electric cars were essentially nonexistent. DON'T MISS: Smallest state poses big question: natural gas or renewable energy? This left a market primed for natural-gas vehicles, one in which the...

  • Slide from 'The Future of Transport: Challenging Perceptions,' Shell Oil presentations, Apr 2015
    How Shell Oil Sees The Future Of Energy And Vehicle Fuels In 2050

    It's always good to understand how the huge global energy industry views the worlds of today and tomorrow. At last month's Shell Eco-Marathon fuel-efficiency competition, sponsor Shell Oil provided seminars for attending journalists to explain how the company views the energy landscape from now...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf at quick-charging station
    New Gas Stations Must Have Quick Charging Or Other Alt Fuels, Canadian City Says

    Where should you put public charging stations for electric cars? Local businesses and governments and urban planners all over the country are grappling with that question right now. But one Canadian city has passed a law that requires new or renovated gas stations to install electric-car charging...

  • Prokhorov CityCar natural-gas hybrid vehicle, design prototype
    Lots Of Orders For Yo Russian Natural-Gas Hybrid, Prokohorov Says

    According to Russian billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, the company building a new natural-gas hybrid car known as the Yo now has orders stretching out as far as 10 years into the future. The business magnate, investor, and former basketball player told satellite TV channel Russia Today...

  • G-Power Hurricane GS natural gas powered BMW M5
    German Tuner G-Power Builds World’s Fastest Natural Gas Powered Car

    The G-Power name has become synonymous with extreme BMWs and the company’s latest Hurricane GS based on the M5 sedan fits in perfectly with that description. You may have read about G-Power’s past creations at our sister site MotorAuthority; such cars as the BMW M5 Hurricane RR, the...

  • 2010 Chevrolet Express
    CNG Capability Coming To Chevrolet Express And GMC Savana Vans This Fall

    Want to save a few dollars or just be a little bit greener with your new commercial van? Now, thanks to GM, you can. The automaker has announced today that Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) powered versions of the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans will be...

  • 2010 Honda Civic GX natural-gas vehicle

    The U.S. buys more hybrids than any place else in the world except Japan. We have a handful of clean diesels, with sales slowly increasing. But the "other alt-fuel" for automobiles--natural gas--is barely a blip on the U.S. market. Nonetheless, Honda is plugging away (ahem) with its 2010 Honda Civic GX, the only natural-gas vehicle (NGV) now offered to U.S. car buyers. It announced today that Oklahoma would become the fourth regional market to offer the GX to retail purchasers. Of 13 Honda dealers in the state, three are already selling the Civic GX to fleet buyers. Not all 13 will...

  • 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric, introduced at 2010 Chicago Auto Show
    2010 Chicago Auto Show: Electric 2011 Ford Transit Connect, Alt-Fuel Taxi

    It's long been known that Ford's first electric car would actually be a truck. Now, we have all the details of the 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric, an all-electric conversion of the Transit Connect commercial van that offers a range of up to 80 miles on a full charge. The 2011 Transit Connect...

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