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On the hood of the General Motors Hydrogen Hummer here is GM trade show organizer Lydia Ciemniak with colleaguesJerry Leanderson and Dick Kauling (poking through the sun roof), alt fuels marketing manager Connie Scarpelli (stand-ing inside driver door) Brad Beauchamp (top right), Doug Dittrich and Clay Okabayashi (at front), and GM California com-munications chief Dave Barthmuss (in window).

11th Annual Clean CitiesConference & Exhibition

Renewed Sense of Urgency in 2005

More and more people are begin-ning to believe it is, and that theeconomic and even social repercus-sions will be enormous. Hear authorPaul Roberts on the subject at thismorning’s plenary session.

A Ford E-450 shuttle (with hydrogen-fueled 6.8-liter internalcombustion V-10 engine) is being used as a shuttle herethis week. Ford’s looking for fleet operators!

Truck ElectrificationEngineers at SunLine and SwRI arereplacing belt-and shaft-driven compo-nents on a Peterbilt with electric ones. Thetruck is on show here. —See Page 4

H2 for Cars–SomedayAir Products thinks its industrial hydrogenprowess will help it in the automotivesector of tomorrow. —See Page 5

A New Deere EngineDeere is planning a 9.0-liter natural gas-fueled engine (based on the 6081, above) tohelp it build on a fast start in transit buses.

—See Page 9

Clean Energy GrowthFuel provider sees itself pumping naturalgas for vehicles at a rate of 60 million gal-lons per year by the end of 2005 — and 300million per year by the end of 2009.

—See Page 13

The End of Oil:Already Here?

Many people who believe it takes a crisis to stimulateaction also believe that the crisis is here. It’s an energycrisis, of course, and with once unheard of $2 per gallongasoline a commonplace now, and a general assumptionthat even a minor supply disruption will send oil pricesthrough the roof (they’ve already topped $55 per barrel),it would seem that the time is now for efficiency to betaken seriously, by many more people.

There are, fortunately, lots of positives to report atClean Cities 2005. • Toyota is here with the Prius hybrid, and says it’s

selling 11,000 or so a month (Toyota’s HighlanderHybrid goes on sale next month; it’s here too).

• Biodiesel seems to have hit its stride: one exhibitorhere, Biodiesel Industries, just built a plant that gets itsprocess power from landfill-recovered natural gas.

• There are conference sessions on diesel idle reductionand on energy security.

• Plug-in hybrids seem finally to be gaining traction. • Several companies are working to pick up where the

U.S. automakers have left off in NGVs. • There is a 35-exhibitor NGV Zone: Clean Cities 2005

is the first Clean Cities meeting to encompass theannual exhibition formerly mounted by the NaturalGas Vehicle Coalition. More NGV Zone on Page 3

Clean Cities Monday Schedule — Page 14

Welcome to the beautiful City ofPalm Springs, California. We are soproud to be hosting this11th Annualevent and proud to be a part of thisdynamic conference and exposition.

Palm Springs is a year-round des-tination for business groups andtourists worldwide.

They come here to enjoy ourwonderful weather, shop, dine, playgolf and tennis, hike, bask in thesun poolside or simply marvel at thenatural beauty of this area.

We are keenly aware of the needto preserve the quality of life for visi-tors and residents alike and towardthat end, we keep up with environ-mental technology.

The City is a pioneer in theneighborhood electric vehicle pro-gram and is currently home toseveral electric vehicles used in var-ious departments and local agencies.

Being a “Clean City” is part of thevision for Palm Springs, and we look

forward to moving in that direction. We hope you have a wonderful

visit in our City and enjoy all theopportunities abundant in this world-renowned destination resort. I hopeto meet many of you during thisinformative conference.

Sincerely,Ron Oden, Mayor

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The Clean Vehicle EducationFoundation (Booth 619) is wel-coming attendees to the first NGVPavilion at a Clean Cities annualmeeting, organized by CVEF onbehalf of 35 of its sponsors andother NGV industry suppliers.

“We’ve made the NGV Zone afun place to be so people will staya while and, in the process, learnabout the great things happening

in NGVs,” says CVEF’s StepheYborra (at right in photo), who hasserved as pointman on the NGVZone project.

In-the-Zone vehicles includeHonda’s 2005 Civic GX, a BAFTechnologies-modified Ford CrownVictoria taxi, a new Thomas Builttransit-style school bus, and aPG&E utility dump truck onFreightliner’s new M2 chassis.

The bus and truck employ Deere’s8.1-liter 6081 natural gas engine.

There will even be a magician. “After discussing 2005 options

with our board and committeeslast summer,” says CVEF presi-dent Doug Horne, “we chose toforego an exposition at our own23rd Annual NGV Conferencelater this year in San Francisco”(to be held October 4-6).

“We opted to throw our supportbehind an expanded NGV pres-ence at the 2005 Clean Citiesevent,” he adds.

“Many of our sponsors andother NGV Conference exhibitorsparticipate in Clean Cities too,”Horne says.

“By eliminating the expo por-tion of our conference for 2005,we’ve helped free up our sponsors’budgets so they can participate inthe other multi-vendor exhibitswe’ve planned at refuse, schooland other end-user tradeshows.”

Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden

A Wealthy Valley IndeedThe Palm Springs area boastsAmerica’s first-ever all-alt-fuelbus fleet: SunLine Transit has 68SunBus and SunDial paratransitvehicles running on CNG.

SunLine is establishing itself inhydrogen too, working with bothpure H2 and with HCNG blends;and is leading a truck electrifica-tion program with the U.S. Army(the program’s test Peterbilt ison show here this week).

Also in the area: • Waste Management, Inc.(WMI), operator of 48 CNG and23 LNG refuse trucks; • Palm Springs Disposal, with 15CNG refuse trucks;• Clean Street, with six CNGsweepers; • the Deser t Sands andCoachella Valley UnifiedDistricts, with 25 and five CNGbuses, respectively;• municipal and airport vehiclesin Palm Springs, Palm Desert,Indio, Desert Hot Springs andCathedral City; and• Time Warner Cable, with some20 CNG vans in service andmore on order.

There are public-access CNGfueling stations at WMI in PalmDesert, at the Palm Springs Air-port, in Indio, Desert Hot Springsand Cathedral City, and, withLNG too, in Thousand Palms.

The local clean energy storygoes beyond vehicles, notes BertKronmiller of the Palm SpringsChamber of Commerce, whochairs the Coachella Valley CleanCities Coalition. He points outthat the area is famous for windpower (Wintec Energy), and thatthe local Desert Water Agencyand par tners activated theregion's largest solar electricinstallation (350 kilowatts) onApril 26.

In the Zone – The 2005 NGV Zone

The 2005 Clean Cities show has a dedicated NGV Pavilion for the first time.

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Wondries Has NGVs by Ford Southern California’s Wondries Fleet Group (Booth 801) has180 model year 2004 factory dedicated-CNG Ford F-150pickups in stock, all of themwhite, with 5.4-liter OHCTriton engines, regular cabsand two-wheel drive, A/C,automatic tranmission and heavy-duty electrical and coolingsystems. They are priced at $29,550. Wondries is also han-dling Ford vehicles converted to CNG by BAF Technologies(Booth 715), with a pending order for 50 Crown Victoriasedans for Yellow Cab of North Orange County.

Applied LNG TechnologiesApplied LNG Technologies is promoting its liquefied nat-ural gas services at Booth 711. Amarillo-based ALT says it’sthe largest LNG wholesaler in the western U.S. and Mexico,supplying LCNG and CNG solutions for transportation,municipal and industrial applications. “Our captive fuel pro-duction capacity exceeds the balance of the entire industryand our distribution fleet is the largest in the industry,” ALTclaims. Besides providing fuel, ALT provides engine conver-sions, fueling station installation, equipment leasing,training and consultation.

Dynetek Handles CNG & H2Canada’s Dynetek Industries (Booth 714) is promoting itsline of lightweight fuel tanks, made with thinwall alumi-

num and a carbon fiber over-wrap, suitable for compressednatural gas and hydrogen.Dynetek claims to be the “theclear winner in the race toreduce overall storage weight.”

Customers include Ford and Nissan for hydrogen. Thecompany also offers bulk gaseous fuel storage solutions, suchas the CNG system shown here.

The Highly Electric LexusThe RX-400h hybrid SUV from Lexus, which went on salejust two weeks ago, features componentry of a type expectedto become common as automakers seek efficiency gains. “Inmaking the transition to ahybrid powertrain, the alter-nator, power steering pump,water pump and AC com-pressor are no longer enginebelt-driven,” Lexus reports.“With the exception of the alternator, which is replaced bymotor-generators, all components are now electrically pow-ered which means notably lower parasitic losses to theengine and improved fuel consumption.” The electric com-ponents can function when the engine is shut down,including when the vehicle is stopped or driven slowlythrough traffic. Lexus is claiming a fuel efficiency gain of67 percent compared to the base RX-330 SUV.

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Engineers from the SouthwestResearch Institute and SunLineTransit are working for the U.S. Armyto improve the fundamental efficiencyof heavy duty trucks.

They are eliminating traditionalshaft- and belt-driven components likefans and pumps in favor of electric ones.

The electric components run onlywhen needed, and can be run at vari-able speeds. “We don’t want theparasitic losses,” says SwRI engineerAlan Montemayor.

The necessary extra electricity forthe modified Peterbilt comes from afuel cell auxiliary power unit with aHydrogenics fuel cell (at least twoothers have been tested previously).

Vehicle electrification of this sort isessential to maximizing the efficiencypotential of all electric vehicles,

including future fuel cell vehicles. Among the new 42-volt parts on the

Class 8 truck are eight variable-speedelectric fans replacing the large shaft-or belt-driven radiator fan common tomost vehicles, an electric fan to coolthe vehicle’s air conditioning com-pressor (which is also electric), and ascroll-type, oil-less electric com-pressor for the vehicles’ air brakes.

The advantage of multiple coolingfans is that they run only whenneeded, and can target specific hotspots, Montemayor explains. “They’renot slaved to engine rpm at all,” he says.

His team has even devised a way touse the pure-water by-product fromthe hydrogen APU to improvecooling efficiency, spraying it over thecharge air cooler/radiator to takeadvantage of evaporative cooling.

Electricity Boosts Truck EfficiencyAs ‘Parasitic’ Losses Are Reduced

Alan Montemayor of SwRI with SunLine Peterbilt being electrified for the U.S. Army.

UC Davis researchers are here pre-senting their latest finding on the useof fuel cells to run auxiliary powerunits and transport refrigeration units.

Besides being fundamentally moreefficient, fuel cells have the potentialto reduce diesel engine idling.

Appropriately, C.J. Brodrick of UCDavis and James Madison Universitywill address the topic at today’s IdleReduction: Meeting the Needs of Truckerssession.

The Davis team is currentlyfocusing on transport refrigerationunits. TRU operation is complex: theytypically must be capable of fast “pull-down” to a desired temperature, to

protect perishables, for example, butonce pull-down is achieved, thesystem typically needs considerablyless energy.

Because fuel cells are expensive anddifficult to obtain, the researcherssought to minimize the cost bydesigning a system that could meet therapid pull-down requirement withoutan over-sized fuel cell.

The Davis team has devised a hybridfuel cell/battery system using twosmall Ballard 1.2 kW PEM fuel cellswith twenty-six 24-volt batteries topower a Carrier Supra 544 TRU. Fullsystem bench testing is underway; fieldtests are planned for this summer.

Fuel Cell Power Could Let TruckersRun Far Cleaner Refrigeration Units

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Toyota Material Handling USA (Booth 420) isshowing a CNG-fueled forklift. The cushion-tire7FGCU25 can handle loads ranging from4,000 to 6,500 pounds.

It features Toyota’s SAS (System of ActiveStability) handling, and has automatic fork lev-eling and electric shift controls.

The standard vehicle comes with the U.S.EPA- and CARB-certified 4Y gasoline engine.CNG fueling is an option, as are propane/LPGand dual-fuel. Other options on the 7FGCU25include a travel speed control system, full sus-pension vinyl or semi-suspension fabric seat, aswing-out tank bracket (for propane) andengine safety shut-down.

The vehicle on show here has a single 3,600-psi Type II CNG cylinder by Pressed Steel Tank.

Toyota ICE forklift is available with CNG or LPG.

The 7FGCU25, by Toyota

Air Products will make between $850 millionand $900 million in capital outlays this year,“driven primarily by the growing hydrogenmarket.” As most of the demandis from refineries needing hydrogento remove sulfur and other contami-nants from conventional fuels, it’s fairto say that Air Products is already aleader in providing hydrogen to helpclean the air.

Looking ahead, the firm is workingto parlay decades of experience inindustrial hydrogen, the bulk of it made fromnatural gas, into a leadership position inhydrogen fuel for vehicles.

“The key to rolling out the energy infrastruc-ture,” says Dave Mc Carthy, the company’sfuture energy solutions commercial manager, “istapping into the industrial infrastructure.”

Here at Clean Cities Air Products ispromoting mobile fueling units to sup-port today’s vehicle test projects, whereit is already applying its own dispensingtechnology.

The latest mobile fueler, the HF 150,has capacity of 150 kilograms of hydro-gen, which it can pump at 350 bar, or

5,000 psi. Air Products can supply

hydrogen made onsite fromnatural gas too, using reform-ers from other suppliers and applyingits own PSA (pressure swing absorp-tion) purification technology.

Air Products has supplied onsitehydrogen at numerous trade exhibi-

tions and public events, including the mostrecent world electric vehicles meeting in LongBeach, Calif. and for the just-concludedNational Hydrogen Association meeting inWashington—at a local Shell that boasts the firstpublic-access hydrogen fueling at a retail gaso-line station in North America.

The world’s first is at a BP station inSingapore. Both employ “Air Products tech-nology that’s wrapped in the customer’s brand,”Mc Carthy says.

Air Products mobil fuelers made it possible fora Honda fuel cell car to be driven from LosAngeles to its new home in Las Vegas lastmonth, where an Air Products installation will beused to fuel it for Mayor Oscar Goodman.

Mc Carthy is to participate in Fueling theHydrogen Highway and Infrastructure panels hereon Wednesday.

C E N T E R S T A G E

Air Products: High-Volume Hydrogen NowDave Mc CarthyCommercial ManagerFuture Energy SolutionsAir Products & Chemicals (Booth 304)

Air Products’ Dave Mc Carthy with the HF 150 mobile fueler.

Dave Mc Carthy

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Q: What’s the difference between natural-gas infrastructure and hydrogen infrastructure?

A: About 10years.

You can’t skip steps on the road to emission-free, energy-independent vehicles. So, at Honda, we’re

working hard to make sure the transition to hydrogen is as smooth as possible. That’s one reason

we’ve invested so much time and energy into our natural-gas vehicle, the Civic GX. Think of the

GX not only as an innovative, nearly emission-free sedan, but also as a type of “transition vehicle,”

one that will make the move to fuel-cell vehicles (like our Honda FCX) easier for both consumers

and manufacturers. Since the refueling procedure and hardware are virtually identical for the Civic

GX and Honda FCX, today’s GX driver makes a perfect “apprentice”for the hydrogen-powered

vehicles of tomorrow. And, when the time comes, GX drivers familiar with PHILL, our home

refueling station, will be able to easily make the switch to a similar device used to produce and

compress hydrogen gas for at-home FCX refueling. There’s also good news for natural-gas producers

and retailers: The same pipelines that supply gas to CNG stations and residential consumers today

will deliver gas to hydrogen reformers (both commercial and residential) tomorrow. At the same

time, CNG stations can be converted to compress, store and deliver hydrogen for refueling. Honda’s

desire is to create forward-thinking vehicles and refueling solutions that help reduce our reliance on

oil, imported or otherwise. Together with an industry committed to investment

in the technologies of the future, we may just be able to turn ten years into nine.

TheCivicGX

Natural-GasVehicle

PHILL will be available in California in limited quantities. ©2005AmericanHondaMotorCo., Inc. civicgx.com

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We All Scream...…for ice cream. And we can all partake of it at this after-noon’s break, featuring Schwann’s Ice Cream and frozenstrawberry bars (for lactose-intolerant folks). It’s all courtesyof the Propane Education & Research Council (Booth 423),here at Clean Cities for its sixth year. Look for the Councilto announce its Exceptional Energy Fleet Award Winnersduring the ice cream social. You can also enter the raffle fortwo propane grills, made by Vermont Castings.

FAB to Open California PlantAlabama-based FAB Industries (Booth 728), which installsvehicle natural gas systems replete with all plumbing, hasbranched from CNG to LNG, is responsible as well for sev-eral hydrogen vehicles includingthis New Flyer bus with hydrogeninternal combustion being testedby SunLine Transit here in PalmSprings, and is looking to locate abranch facility in California. The firm has recruited severalveterans of other NGV equipment providers includingGeorge Kalet, Dave Myers and Ron Eickelman.

Eco Shows New ‘edi’Eco Fuel Systems (Booth 523) is here showing its U.S. EPA-certified “edi” propane injection system, suitable forpropane conversions in a range of common fleet vehicleapplications. The Canadian company, based in Langley, BC,has been testing its system in a range of climatic conditionsto prove its durability. The edi system is designed for GM’s4.3-, 4.8,-, 5.3-, 5.7-, 6.0-, 7.4- and 8.1-liter engines, Ford’s4.6-, 5.4-, and 6.8-liter engines, and Dodge’s 4.7- and 5.7-liter engines.

GM Hydrogen Forklift TestsGeneral Motors (Booth 501) is not only developing fuel cellvehicles but is looking to use them too, and recently tested apair of Hyster forklifts with H2 fuel cell packs at the GMCanada plant in Oshawa, which has about 500 forklifts. A10-kilowatt Hydrogenics fuel cell unit replaces the lifts’ con-ventional batteries; Maxwell ultracapacitors allow 40kilowatts of peak power, and there is none of the end-of-charge power loss common with batteries.

Swagelok High Flow ValvesSwagelok has launched a line of ball valves, said to be high-flow, high-pressure products suitable for both hydrogen andnatural gas. The company’s AFS Series valves work at pres-sures up to 6,000 psi (413 bar)and feature ultra low tempera-ture-capable fluorocarbon sealmaterial. Peter Ehlers is workingBooth 811 here.

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IdleAire (Booth 703) is promoting asystem whereby truckers can drawducted warm or cool air, electricity forreefer compartments and for in-cabappliances and toys, and Internetaccess (wireless in some locations), allwithout running their engines.

The Kentucky-based company,which began deploying its system lessthan two years ago, boasts upwards of20 truck stop installations.

IdleAire calls its product ATE,which is short for Advanced TravelCenter Electrification.

IdleAire says it notched more than3.65 million ATE service hours as ofmid-April, conserving more than 3.6million gallons of diesel fuel and pre-venting nearly 39,000 metric tons ofdiesel emissions.

The company has disclosed a plan

for the Colorado Education andCultural Facilities Authority to issueapproximately $146 million of bondsand loan the proceeds to DEIRF, theDriverEducationand IdlingReductionFoundation, for a training programfor truckers encompassing everythingfrom high school equivalency prepara-tion to homeland security bulle-tins—all to be delivered via the ATEnetwork’s Internet connections.

“The initial phase of the programwill include 70 new large truck stoplocations in 28 states,” IdleAire says.

IdleAire describes DEIRF as aColorado corporation affiliated withWashington’s Global Environmentand Technology Foundation.

IdleAire Brings Heat and Power,New Foundation Funding Scheme

IdleAire systems on parked big rigs at the Petro Travel Center in Knoxville, Tenn.

“We now are an OEM,” says AlanNiedzwiecki, president and CEO ofQuantum Fuel Systems Worldwide.With the acquisition ofStarcraft in early March,his firm (Booth 402) canproduce entire vehicles,like the MP Hybrid justdelivered to the U.S.military.

Quantum’s Tecstar unit (the namecomes from the former Starcraft) offersconcept vehicle development, power-train engineering (including hybriddesigns), second stage vehicle manufac-turing, and the production of polymerbody parts.

Under the Quantum name are

gaseous fuels, including supply offuel tanks and regulators, and all thenecessary valves, for production nat-

ural gas and propanevehicles and hydrogentest vehicles.

Quantum says it inte-grates some 250 com-ponents on GM’s 2006full size CNG pickups,

and claims key roles on Toyota’sworking FCHVs and on GM’s newSequel — and on the hydrogen internalcombustion Hummer caressed late lastyear by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The diesel-electric MP Hybrid wasdelivered in early April to the U.S.Army’s National Automotive Center.

A More Consequential Quantum Here

Quantum-Tecstar is keeping busy.

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This past year saw delivery of morethan a dozen Honda FCX fuel cellvehicles in Japan and the U.S.

The most recent FCX placementswere in Las Vegas, where the vehi-cles will experience extreme desertheat (and where Mayor OscarGoodman said he’d likely appro-priate one for his own use), and inAlbany, N.Y., where there is ampleopportunity for sub-zero evaluation:New York got the first FCXes withHonda’s own, more cold weather-capable fuel cell stacks.

FCX cars in tests in Hokkaido,Japan, will also see sub-freezing conditions.

Besides promising better cold-weather per-formance than the Ballard stacks used in earlierFCXes, the new ones are said to be far cheaperto manufacture and to be more energy efficient.

Los Angeles and nearby Chula Vista haveFCXes too, as does the South Coast Air QualityManagement District, LA’s clean air agency.

San Francisco has the first two placed by aregular Honda dealer.

The Good, The Better, The Best, and The

Ultimate... See tomorrow’s issue of ShowTimesfor a run-down on America Honda’s grandclean vehicle strategy.

Who Wants a Honda Hydrogen Car?

General Motors (Booth 501) earlier this yearclaimed the first-ever 300-mile fuel cellvehicle, the drive-by-wire, “skateboard”-chassis Sequel, which owes its range to anefficient GM fuel cell stack and a 10,000 psicompressed hydrogen fuel system fromQuantum Technologies (Booth 402).

The concept vehicle shows that fuel cell andother technologies can be worked into avehicle that will be wholly acceptable to con-sumers, GM says. It’s to be drivable by year-end.

GM early last month delivered a ChevroletSilverado powered by two 94-kilowatt fuel cellstacks to the U.S. military.

GM’s Sequel FCV was just displayed in Shanghai.

GM Claims a 300-Mile FCV

American Honda, which claims braggingrights to the first road-certified fuel cellvehicle, said earlier this year that it wouldlease the hydrogen-fueled car to anyonewho wants one for just $500 per month.

Las Vegas Clean Cities Coordinator Dan Hyde after driving oneof two Honda FCX fuel cell cars 270 miles from Los Angeles.

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John Deere pledges to meet 2007 heavy dutyvehicle NOx requirements this year and 2010’sfive-times-more-stringent requirements in timefor 2007 vehicles, doing the latter with a 9.0-liter

6090 engine that will even-tually replace its 8.1-liter6081 workhorse.

Deere began a careful,methodical introduction ofthe natural gas-fueled,8.1-liter 6081 engine inlate 1994, and has sinceseen the program, which

included 1.6 million miles of tests, result indeployment of the engine on some 2,500 U.S.school buses.

Now the firm with the familiar green tractorsis reaping benefits in the transit bus sector,notching some 341 orders with at least threeOEMs. It is launching the larger 6090, whichwill be offered in a wide range of power ratings,not only to meet impending federal regulationsbut for more demanding transport routes and

the beckoning waste truck sector. The 6081 powers the Freightliner M2 utility

truck that’s on display here at Clean Cities.Deere and Pacific Gas & Electric are urgingFreightliner to make it a production vehicle.

With the new 6090, “We’re looking to getinto the 300-horsepower range,” says Waterloo,Iowa-based Tom Cummings, who manages nat-ural gas engine sales for John Deere PowerSystems.

“We started with select buses in 1996,”Cummings says of Deere’s 6081 market intro-duction, for three years placing the engineexclusively on Blue Bird vehicles. The first ver-sion was rated at 250 horsepower, and boasted“diesel-like fuel economy.”

Deere branched beyond Blue Bird in 1999,placing the 6081 on school buses by ThomasBuilt and ElDorado.

“We’ve paid our dues,” Cummings says. The HFN04 version of the 6081 features elec-

tronic controls developed by Deere subsidiaryPhoenix International. It became standard in2003, and the controls technology will be appliedto the new 6090.

The deep history behind the 8.1-liter 6081,Cummings says, will ease the market introduc-

tion of the 9.0-liter 6090, which will be availableto meet the EPA’s 2010 (and california transit bus2007) standards in late 2006.

“We’re following the same methodology wedid for school buses,” he told ShowTimes.

“The 9-liter,” says Cummings, “is our plat-form for the future.”

“This is a natural power progression of the6081,” Jeff Noonan-Day, who manages alt fuelsplanning for Deere, says of the 6090. “We’re stillemphasizing reliability and fuel economy.”

“We’re solidly behind oper-ator rules,” says the TruckManufacturers Association’sBob Clarke. “But we also hopefor uniformity so operatorsknow whether they’ve got five,or two, or six, or ten minutes”before they need to stopidling.

The rules differ everywhere.Clarke, who moderates the IdleReduction: Meeting the Needs ofTruckers panel today, adds thatoperator rules will createdemand for new products.

He says equipment rules arepremature because technologyis still evolving and truckerswant to test different products.Manufacturers build whattheir customers want. “Ourvolume is too small…we buildto order.”

Approximately 60,000 to90,000 sleeper berth-equippedtrucks are built every year. Ofthe 5.6 million medium and

heavy duty trucks in service,about 1.4 million are tractortrailers, 675,000 of them withsleepers.

Plugging intothe grid is theideal anti-idlingsolution, Clarkeadds, but whenthe grid is notavailable,truckers need tobe able to gen-erate their ownpower.

A lot of cre-ative people areworking on theproblem, says Bill Warf, ofSacramento Municipal UtilityDistrict.

Warf outlines SMUD’stechnology development proj-e c t s i n Tu e s d a y ’s I d l eReduction 101 panel.

APUs, gensets, and batteryinverter systems may all meet

trucker’s shore power needs,Warf adds. Rising fuel pricesadd an economic incentive.“This is the only project I’ve

worked on whereemissions reduc-tion technologypays for itself sofast.”

Still, capitaland infrastruc-ture are chal-lenges, he con-cedes.

There are sim-pler solutions,too. “We haven’teven scratched

the surface about how betterinsulation might keep a sleepercab warm or cool.”

Warf also speaks on today’spanel. “Truckers are importantto everybody; we’re askingthem not to idle. So we needto help” by providing fundingand technology solutions.

Tom Cummings

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Deere Readies a 9.0L Natural Gas EngineTom CummingsDirector, NGV Engine SalesJohn Deere Power Systems (Booth 701)

John Deere and partners including Pacific Gas& Electric are petitioning DaimlerChrysler’sFreightliner unit to begin series production ofits new M2 utility trucks with Deere’s 9.0-liter6091 natural gas engine, offering the alt fuelas a factory option.

The one-off M2 on display here was fittedwith its Deere natural gas engine and threeLincoln Type IV CNG tanks, holding the equiva-lent of 56 gallons of diesel, by Complete CoachWorks of Riverside, Calif.

The vehicle here is to be a dump truck;street sweepers and utility crew trucks areother possibilities for the CNG M2. Deere NGVsales chief Tom Cummings is here this week.

John Deere green can clearly be seen on M2 engine.

Deere for Freightliner M2?

Idle Reduction Strategies Emerge

Grid power works the best.

Deere experience on 6081 will support new 6090.

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A new Biodiesel Industries (Booth 707) plant inDenton, Texas is being billed as the world’s firstfully renewable biodiesel facility, as it will usefarm- and restaurant waste-derived feedstocks—and gets process power from landfill natural gas.

The City of Denton helped fund the projectand has committed to taking 300,000 gallons ofpure diesel per year, to be used to blend B20 for afleet of some 386 trucks and buses.

“This project is the first of its kind,” saidBiodiesel Industries president Russ Teall. “All ofthe energy needs of the facility, including allprocess heat and power, will be provided byrenewable landfill gas from the City of Denton.”

Capacity is 3 million gallons of B100 per year. Teall’s Denton plant comes on line as biodiesel

is becoming a scarce commodity: “Manufac-turers are having to ration their fuel,” saysNational Biodiesel Board president Joe Jobe.

“They’re producing as much as they can.” Denton will get its B100 for a net price of

$2.30 per gallon, Teall says, about 30 cents belowthe national norm for B100.

The figure takes into account new tax creditsfor biodiesel, which amounts to a penny per per-centage point for farm-derived product, with acredit of half a cent per point for biodieselderived from such sources as restaurant waste.

“The perceived additional value of biodiesel,and limited supply, has resulted in the increasingbiodiesel prices that you see today,” Teall says.

“As the price of petroleum diesel rises, the dif-ference between the price of petroleum dieseland biodiesel will decrease.

“My prediction is that additional biodieselproduction capacity will be built over the nextcouple of years, and, along with the increasingprice of petroleum diesel, there will very soon bea time when biodiesel and petroleum diesel arethe same price.”

Teall’s company employs a modular, expand-able design and claims a proprietary, “feedstockneutral” process that can produce qualitybiodiesel “from many different resources such assoybean oil and used french fry oil.”

“Quality control systems are built into theprocess control automation for the facilities,ensuring that the biodiesel produced meets strin-gent U.S. and European standards,” thecompany says.

Its technology is available to joint venturepartners, who generally are granted exclusiverights to their respective territories, explains JakeStewart, a Biodiesel Industries man based inDenton (the firm’s HQ is in Santa Barbara).

The Denton biodiesel plant is Biodiesel

Industries’ fifth. Others are located in Ruther-ford, Australia; in Colorado; and at the PortHueneme Naval Base in California.

The Denton plant was opened March 29 in aceremony attended by actress Darryl Hannah.

Biodiesel Plant Runs on Landfill Methane

In Denton, clockwise from top are Trey Teall, son ofBiodiesel Industries chief Russ Teall and R&D direc-tor at the Naval Tech Center in Port Hueneme,Calif.; Charles Fiedler, Teall’s Dallas-area GM, andbusiness development manager Jake Stewart.

Houston’s Waste Management, Inc.,a $12 billion company that claimsthe lead position among waste andenvironmental services providers inNorth America, is at Booth 513.

The company has 289 active land-fill disposal sites, and says it hasbeneficial-use landfill gas projects at85 of them. The WMI network also

includes 429 separate collectionoperations, 138 recycling plants and17 waste-to-energy plants.

WMI operates approximately 400natural gas vehicles.

Locally, Waste Management ofthe Deser t began operating CNGvehicles in 1995 and now has 48CNG and 23 LNG refuse trucks.

WMI operates approximately 70 natural gas-fueled trucks in the Coachella Valley.

Waste Management Taps Landfills

According to 2003 data collectedby the American Public TransitAssociation, the 77,328 transitbuses on America’s roads useabout 896 million gallons of fuela year, the Natural Gas VehicleCoalition reported last week.

“Not surpris ingly,” says

NGVC, “most of that (84 per-cent) is diesel. But 80 percent ofthe remainder (13 percent of thetotal) is natural gas.”

To displace the entire 747million gallons of diesel fuelconsumed by transit with naturalgas would require only 100 bil-

lion cubic feet (bcf) of naturalgas per year, NGVC says. “Thisrepresents less than one-half ofone percent of the natural gasused in the U.S.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. DoEestimates that more than 1,250bcf of methane annually could

be realistically producedby converting landfill gas,animal waste and munic-ipal sewage to pipelinequality methane (biogas).

“Therefore,” NGVCsays, “America could dis-place all the diesel fuelnow being used in transit

buses with only 8 percent of thebiogas we could be producingfrom these waste products.”

NGVC chief Rich Kolodziejwill participate in the DevelopingA Global Energy Security Strategydiscussion at the general sessionhere this afternoon.

Tremendous Diesel DisplacementPotential from Waste Gas Alone

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BAF Technologies comes to Clean Cities withexcellent news. The former Bachman AFV justthis past Wednesday received U.S. EPA certifica-tion of its model year 2005, dedicated-CNGFord Crown Victoria (or Lincoln-MercuryGrand Marquis/Town Car) with 4.6-liter V-8engine.

BAF earlier secured the federal nod for con-version of Ford’s 6.8-liter V-10 for the E450cutaway—key to the airport shuttle market. It’sapproved for propane as well.

BAF can upfit vehicles with General Motors4.3-, 6.0- and 8.1-liter engines for gaseous fueloperation too, and converts larger vehicles inleague with Atlanta- and Tampa-based HybridFuel Systems. Engines include International’sDT 466 and T44E, Isuzu’s 4.75-liter power-plant, and the Cummins ISM.

“We’ve stepped up to the plate,” says BAF VPBill Calvert. “The departure of the OEMs from

the CNG and LPG market has greatlybenefited BAF,” he told ShowTimes.

“We are pleased at the customeracceptance,” he says. And, unlike theOEMs, “We don’t have to have 100,000vehicles a year to be successful.”

“This is a good year for BAF,”Calvert said on the eve of Clean Cities.“If the orders continue at the currentpace it will be one of our best years.”

The Crown Vic taxi on show herethis week was provided by Yellow Cabof North Orange County. Further salesto Yellow by Wondries Fleet Group(Booth 801) are pending.

BAF has taxi orders pending in Dallas,New York City, Phoenix and San Francisco, too.

The company’s major police car job thus farwas the conversion of 175 Crown Vics for Dallasunder a contract worth $1.89 million.

Taking a cue from fuel provider Clean Energy,BAF stresses its ability help customers securefunding, be it from the federal Small BusinessInnovation Research initiative, the New York

State Energy Research and DevelopmentAuthority, or the Texas Emissions ReductionProgram. TERP alone is said to have an averageof $130 million per year for AFVs through 2008.

Besides Calvert, BAF staff at Clean Cities2005 include company president John Bacon,business development VP Paul Shaffer, technicalchief Roger Galloway and technical assistantScott Scrima, and sales manager Jim Schick.

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BAF Gets EPA’s Nod for CNG Crown VicsBill CalvertVPBAF Technologies (Booth 715)

BAF’s Bill Calvert with 2005 Crown Vic — now EPA-certified.

General Motors (Booth 501) says it may meetthe hydrogen storage challenge with solidmetal hydride materials, which can store H2 atlow pressures. GM is engineering storage can-nisters using sodium alanate hydrides withscientists at the Sandia Lab in California.Sodium alanate has the thermal properties GMwants for a hydride system; research else-where is expected to yield materials withsimilar thermal properties but the ability tohold more hydrogen—lithium borohydride is acandidate.

GM says it’s solved such fuel cell ‘show-stoppers’ as energy density and catalyst cost,and wants the world to know it’s handling thestorage issue.

Sandia Lab’s Daniel Dedrick with sodium alanate.

GM Eyes Solid H2 Storage

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Five Clean Cities Coordinatorsreceived awards here Sunday for theirexemplary service in 2004. Winners ofthis year’s Outstanding CoordinatorAward included:• Melissa Howell, director of the

Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition.Highlights for 2004 included openingof Commonwealth Agri-Energy’s 24-million-gallon-per-year ethanol plantin Hopkinsville, delivery of fivehybrid electric buses to TARC, theTransit Authority of River City inLouisville, and installation of a20,000-gallon biodiesel tank at theMid West Terminal in Paducah;

• Stacey Neef, for Central Texas, whohelped grow the number of AFVs inher area by 15 last year, was involvedin establishing airport propanevehicle fueling after securing a$25,000 grant from the PropaneEducation and Research Council(Booth 423), and who handles eventplanning and daily duties “with a zestthat overshadows all that work withher,” according to her nominationby Regional Clean Cities ProjectManager Ernie Oakes;

• Becky Ohler, Granite State, whodespite splitting time with theNew Hampshire Department ofEnvironmental Services has activelypromoted biodiesel, including theopening of five retail outlets byRymes Propane & Oil and use bythe Cranmore Mountain ski area,

and CNG, including deployment ofCNG shuttle vans by the Universityof New Hampshire;

• Nathalie Shapiro, Mid-Atlantic, anemployee of the Energy Cooperativeof Pennsylvania, who worked in 2004with hybrid vehicle dealers to pro-mote Clean Cities and the environ-mental and energy security benefits ofhybrids (as well as working to stream-line Pennsylvania’s hybrid vehiclerebate process), promoted the Phila-delphia Car Share Program, helpeddevelop anti-idling strategies forschool buses, including a potentialproject with Shurepower (Booth 510),helped form the Clean Yellow BusAssociation, and developed a newwebsite (www.phillycleancities.org);and

• Kellie Walsh, Central Indiana, whowrote grants to bring in a total of$90,000, gained 26 new members,and increased the number of AFVsin her area by 21 percent. CentralIndiana stakeholders opened thenation’s first metered blendingfacility for biodiesel, too.Watch for more Clean Cities

awards action here, including thenaming of the Outstanding Coor-dinator of the Year today (hint: it’ll besomeone from the West).

Clean Cities National PartnerAwards will be bestowed Tuesday, as willthe Clean Cities Hero and at least oneitem of additional, special recognition.

Five Win Coordinator Awards Here:Howell, Neef, Ohler, Shapiro, Walsh

Recipients of National Clean Cities Coordinator Awards Sunday includedKellie Walsh and Stacey Neef, front left. At rear is Michael O’Leary repre-senting Nathalie Shapiro. Also in photo are Clean Cities Deputy DirectorMarcy Rood and Director Shelley Launey, at far right.

Clean Energy LNG in CaliforniaClean Energy has spent more than $35 million in support ofNGVs, and has a 5-year, $75 million strategic plan to morethan double its California fueling stations and build thestate’s first LNG plant. (January 3, 2005)

PG&E Hydrogen in San CarlosPacific Gas & Electric is targeting the second half of 2005 toopen a hydrogen fueling station with a natural gas reformerfrom Massachusetts’ Ztek in San Carlos, Calif., not far fromthe San Francisco airport. (January 3)

AC Claims 83% FC Bus AvailabilityAC Transit is claiming an average of 83 percent availabilityduring trials of a 30-foot bus outfitted with a fuel cell from UTCby ISE Corp. The vehicle got the equivalent of 7.6 miles pergallon, double the efficiency of AC’s diesels. (January 17)

More CNG Buses for Long Island?The Middle Country Center School District on Long Islandpassed a bond measure including funding for clean vehiclesinfrastructure with an eye to coverting its entire fleet of 78full-size school buses to compressed natural gas. (February 14)

Exit NABI’s Lightweight CompoBusNorth American Bus Industries is discontinuing its light-weight CompoBus, in part because the FTA has declined toextend NABI’s “Buy American” waiver for the vehicles. Costwas a big factor too. (February 28)

NYC Transit Eyes UltracapacitorsAt least one of New York City’s Orion hybrids with BAEdrives may be fitted with ultracapacitors to see if they out-perform the lead acids in production vehicles. (April 11)

Watch for a Hybrid Fuel AcquisitionTampa- and Atlanta-based Hybrid Fuel Systems is looking todiversify beyond its kits for allowing diesel engines to run on anatural gas mix. (April 11)

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“Look for the market to grow tremendously inthe next couple of years,” says Jim Harger, seniorVP with Clean Energy.

He’s talking about the market for natural gasas a vehicle fuel, for whichhis firm claims the leadingposition in North America,“with a broad customerbase in the refuse, transit,shuttle, taxi, police, intra-state and interstate truck-ing, airport and municipalfleet markets with tens of

thousands of vehicles fueling at strategic loca-tions in the U. S. and Canada.”

Clean Energy pumped the equivalent of 34million gallons of natural gas for vehicles in 2003and 46 million gallons in 2004, Harger toldShowTimes just prior to Clean Cities.

“We’re going to be on a run rate by December

of at least 60 million gallons a year,” he vows. The goal for the end of 2009, he says, is

300 million gallons per year. There’s growth in light duty vehicles,

Harger says, as companies like BAF andBaytech fill the OEM breach for Ford CrownVictorias and shuttles, and for Chevy vans,respectively, and there’s growth in heavy dutyvehicles as new engines become available anddiesel manufacturers are hard-pressed tomeet stiff new NOx emissions limits.

“We committed to deploying an 80,000-gallon-a-day plant in Southern California” forLNG, Harger says.

He points to John Deere’s successful efforts tobranch from school buses to the transit field (seepage 9), and even possibly to over-the-roadtrucks, and confirms that Clean Energy isworking with San Diego’s Clean Air Power on adual fuel version of the Caterpillar C13 thatwould run primarily on natural gas.

Another engine partner is Westport Innovations,which is a shareholder in Clean Energy.

Clean Energy will supply CNG installations for

the $250 million consolidated rental car centerbeing built at Sky Harbor International Airport inPhoenix, which will be served by a fleet of naturalgas shuttle buses beginning next year. CleanEnergy will begin pumping fuel for FoothillTransit in Irwindale, Calif., and for the City ofSanta Clarita this summer. It’s already supporting170 buses to the tune of 250,000 gallons permonth for Foothill in Pomona, Harger says.

Key to the Clean Energy strategy is helpingfleets get grants to build fueling stations, for whichClean Energy then supplies the fuel.

Harger says grants amounting to more than$45 million have been awarded to date.

Jim Harger

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Clean Energy Sees Double-Digit GrowthJim HargerSenior VPClean Energy (Booth 613)

Clean Energy CNG for PHX Sky Harbor rental car center.

helps customers operating electro-drive fleets, such as forklifts and golfcarts, to Save Energy, Save Money.

If you are an Edison customer thatoperates an electro-drive fleet, or areconsidering electro-drive to meetyour fleet compliance requirements,Edison can show you ways to improvethe energy efficiency of your equip-ment and better manage yourcharging load. This can help youreduce your energy costs whileassisting California in avoidingpossible energy shortages.

For more information on Southern California Edison’s electro-drive program, visit our website at www.sce.com/electrodrive.

Southern California Edison’s Electric Transportation Department

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Plug-in hybrids are gaining tractionthanks to concern over domesticgas prices, world oil demand, andgrowing carbon emissions. Recentnational news coverage, plus favor-able treatment in the recentNational Commission on EnergyPolicy report, fuel the interest.

The Electric Power ResearchInstitute’s Bob Graham has beenpreaching the PHEV gospel for atleast six years. “Plug-in hybrids canchange the energy landscape,” hesays. “We can meet the need forenergy security and environmental

quality of life with a family of elec-tric drive technologies,” includingbattery EVs, engine-dominanthybrids, PHEVs, and fuel cells inthe future. Graham will map out aPHEV commercialization pathduring this afternoon’s general ses-sion, Developing a Global EnergySecurity Strategy.

Graham and his team aredemoing six prototype PHEVDaimlerChrysler Sprinter vanswith 20 miles all-electric range.Onroad testing has begun on thefirst two vans in Germany, where

the vehicles are being built. Fourmore hit the road in Kansas Cityand Los Angeles before year’s end.

Another 30 vans with next-gen-eration technology are on tap fornext year, and a third phase calls for100 vehicles.

To date, only DaimlerChryslerhas committed to developing andtesting plug-in technology; other

OEMs question the complexityand cost.

“What are they waiting for?”wonders UC Davis MechanicalEngineering Professor AndrewFrank. Frank and his studentshave built several award-winningvehicles — on both car and SUV

platforms — in the last six years. “If my students can do it,” he

asks, “why can’t the big guys at thecar companies?”

Plug-In Hybrids: An Energy Security Role?

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