A push by Toyota’s Hino Motors to earn more of the U.S. commercial delivery truck business should provide a turbocharged, 260-horsepower propane engine suitable for use in bobtails, buses, medium-duty delivery vehicles and other class 7 applications by 2006.
Read More As the nation’s leading producer and consumer of propane, the state of Texas has always been at the forefront of incorporating fuel use into the daily routine.
Read More Without considerable advances in alternative fuel and vehicle technology . . . it is unlikely that any fuel will replace petroleum-based fuels in the near future.
Read More They are not the dinosaurs of the past. They are not the horror stories of years ago. They are not the shunned equipment that was given such a nasty name called "conversions."
Read More New year, same frustrating challenges in Washington after the promising push for a comprehensive national energy bill withered in the cold winds of December.
Read More Teaching educators about the benefits of propane-powered school buses can a rewarding experience for a propane marketer. The enrichment can be further enhanced when the retailer also assists the districts in obtaining government grants to cover all the costs.
Read More In the heart of gritty, industrial Cleveland, parked on a pitted, gravel lot, some of the cleanest engines in the city are waiting to burn.
Read More Imagine hordes of hurried motorists pulling into gas stations and filling their tanks with propane. Gas-and-go with the swipe of a money card. Think of all the clean-burning gallons that would be consumed should propane become commonplace as an American automobile fuel — to say nothing of the auxiliary LPG business that a public primed for propane would support.
Read More Imminent EPA regulations and a competitive race toward the hot, new technologies that promise high growth markets are pressing propane industry efforts to solve complex fuel composition problems that have plagued the industry for decades.
Read More Propane’s prominence as a motor vehicle fuel appears ready to shift into overdrive with construction of the nation’s first alternative fuels Regional Transportation Center in San Diego.
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