natural gas
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Oklahoma has a natural-gas fueling station every 100 miles on its highways.
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Nikola One 2000-hp natural gas-electric semi truck announced
Another company named after Nikola Tesla plans to launch an electric semi truck and UTV.
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CA issues $9 million in grants for electric-car fast charger installations
California will fund installation of DC fast-charging stations along highway corridors.
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Multiple Trends Turning Slowly Against Oil, Says Rocky Mountain Institute
The cost of a barrel of oil is now just a fraction of what it was several years ago, and fuel prices have mostly fallen across the globe as a result. Oil prices rise and fall, but most industry analysts suggest that the emergence of North American production has loosened OPEC's ability to set...
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Leak At Natural-Gas Field Now One-Quarter Of All CA Methane Emissions (UPDATED)
For half a century, California has been at the forefront of reducing emissions and cleaning up air pollution. And the state has made breathtaking progress since the days of early-Seventies technicolor photochemical smog alerts. But then bad things happen--and a leak at a single natural-gas well...
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Final Transportation Bill: Electric-Car Fans Get MORE Reasons To Rejoice (UPDATED)
A recently-passed transportation bill includes several measures supporting electric cars.
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About 200 Chevrolet Impala bi-fuel sedans have been delivered to customers.
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Fiat Chrysler Spends $40 Million On Natural-Gas Parts Truck Conversions
Fiat Chrysler is converting its Detroit-area parts-delivery fleet to CNG.
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Natural-Gas Vehicles To Get Electric-Car Tax Credit In Transportation Bill?
The House transportation bill includes provisions benefiting natural-gas vehicles.
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Truckers Slowly Warm To Cold Liquified Natural Gas
Changes to the tax code could make LNG more attractive to truckers.
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Big Coal Doomed: Not By Climate Rules But Fracking & Finance
Coal is the worst fossil fuel, that much is clear. Its carbon footprint per kilowatt-hour of electricity when it's burned by electric utilities to make electricity is far, far higher than that of natural gas. And that's even before the slowly improving economics of renewable sources come into play...
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Armored Natural-Gas Plug-In Hybrid Truck To Hit The Roads
A plug-in hybrid armored truck with a natural-gas engine will hit Los Angeles streets next year.
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Congress has taken an important step to advance cleaner transport with the introduction of new, fairer taxation for natural gas. The 'LNG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2013' is designed to equalize the discrepancy between taxation of diesel and liquefied natural gas (LNG). ALSO SEE: Tesla Model 3, To Be Revealed In March, Might Have 300-Mile Range: Report Currently, both are taxed at the same federal rate of 24.3 cents per gallon. FURTHER UPDATE: Legislation that accomplishes the same goals as the Alternative Fuel Tax Parity Act was passed in July 2015 by the House and the Senate as part of...
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Honda Civic Hybrid, Natural-Gas Models Eliminated After 2015
Honda surprised the industry when it pulled the wraps off a brand-new tenth generation of its Civic compact at April's New York Auto Show. But two members of today's Civic lineup won't survive into the new generation: the Honda Civic Hybrid, and the Honda Civic Natural Gas. Honda executive...
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Chevy Impala Natural-Gas Version Delayed By A Year Over Unspecified Concerns
The Chevrolet Impala bi-fuel natural-gas model was delayed over a year, but GM won't say why.
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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...
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2016 Ford F-150 Offers Natural-Gas/Propane Prep-Kit Option
The 2016 Ford F-150 will get a gaseous-fuel prep kit for 5.0-liter V-8 models.
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Wind, Natural Gas, Solar Provide More U.S. Power, Replacing Coal
Wind, natural gas, and solar power generation are set to increase in 2015 while coal decreases, government figures say.
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MGM Resorts International now operates a fleet of 31 CNG-powered Cadillac XTS stretch limousines.
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Natural Gas Continues To Replace Coal: 'Bridge' Fuel To Lower-Carbon Energy
Natural gas is displacing coal in U.S. electricity generation.
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Mack Trucks Updates Its Natural-Gas Powered Semi Tractors
Mack Trucks adds a new transmission and adaptive cruise control to its Pinnacle series tractors.
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California Bill Would Slash Sales Tax On Greenest New Vehicles
The California Legislature will considering cutting the sales tax on battery-electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and compressed natural gas cars.
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White House Budget Asks For $10K Electric-Car Credit, Natural-Gas Cars Added
The proposed 2016 budget includes some measures meant to boost electric-car adoption.
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Natural-Gas Vehicle Sales Globally Won't Quite Double In 10 Years: Analyst
Cars running on natural gas have been around for decades now, and presently represent 2 to 3 percent of global auto production. Their tailpipe emissions are much cleaner than gasoline or diesel cars. And North American production of natural gas has soared over the last decade. You might think that...
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