All About Alternate Fuel Vehicles (AFV)

La Porte, MI, Jan 23, 2008
Source: The News Despatch.com
http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&
SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=9040&TM=60170.07

Only the Michigan City and Westville school districts have not made the switch to biodiesel fuel for at least some of their school buses.  Westville, because it’s so small, does not have its own fuel tanks. Buses fill up at a nearby truck stop, business manager Dick Cook said, adding school officials are satisfied with diesel.
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By Jane Northrop, Staff Writer, Jan 23, 2008
Source: Pacifica Tribune
http://www.pacificatribune.com/localnews/ci_8055621

Pacifica City Council approved an innovative biodiesel plant for Pacifica, the first of its kind to be built in the United States that shares facilities with a wastewater treatment plant.  On Monday, Jan. 14, the City Council voted 4-1, with Councilmember Cal Hinton opposed, to approve the environmental impact report and enter into a ground lease agreement with Whole Energy Fuels Corporation for the construction, operation and maintenance of a biodiesel facility at the Calera Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (CCWTP).
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By Chuck Squatriglia, Jan 24, 2008
Source: Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2008/01/ethanol23

A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn’t interfere with food supplies, company officials said.  Coskata, which is backed by General Motors and other investors, uses bacteria to convert almost any organic material, from corn husks (but not the corn itself) to municipal trash, into ethanol.  “It’s not five years away, it’s not 10 years away. It’s affordable, and it’s now,” said Wes Bolsen, the company’s vice president of business development.
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By Kelly Garrison, Features Editor, Jan 24, 2008
Source: Gazettes.com
http://www.gazettes.com/biodiesel1242008.html

Long Beach soon may follow in the footsteps of several other California cities that have reduced their carbon footprint on the earth, using a new kind of fuel.  The City Council directed City Manager Pat West to investigate the feasibility of using biodiesel to power its 361 city-owned trucks, large cars and other diesel vehicles. The fuel allows engines to get about 400 miles out of each tank and is 35% more energy efficient than petroleum diesel.
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27 Jan 2008
Source: Trend News, azerbaijan
http://news.trend.az/index.shtml?show=news&newsid=1121397&lang=EN

Motorsports have been created to prove automobiles were trustworthy. Later, when these vehicles already had the confidence of consumers (and were no longer threatened by carriages…), they helped develop technologies to make cars safer, faster and cleaner. That’s why it should be no surprise if the Audi R10 wins this year’s edition of Le Mans powered not only by diesel, but by the most interesting kind of this fuel so far: the BTL, or biomass-to-liquid, a second-generation fuel that is produced from straw, useless pieces of wood, compost and other things you would call garbage, but scientists call biomass.
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By Jill Dunn, Jan 28, 2008
Source: etrucker.com
http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=66281

Safeway trucks sport a green sticker with a soybean leaf and the words “Powered by Biodiesel: Clean, Renewable, Domestic.” Safeway has converted its fleet of more than 1,000 trucks to biodiesel, which the California-based grocery chain says equals removing almost 7,500 cars from the road annually. Announced Jan. 18, the change is part of Safeway’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiative and its effort to manage its carbon footprint, address climate change and reduce air pollution. (more…)

By Carol Marshall, New York Times,
San Francisco, CA; Nov. 30, 2007
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/02diesel.html?ref=environment

Claiming it now has the largest green fleet in the nation, the city of San Francisco this week completed a yearlong project to convert its entire array of diesel vehicles — from ambulances to street sweepers — to biodiesel, a clean-burning and renewable fuel that holds promise for helping to reduce greenhouse gases.  Using virgin soy oil bought from producers in the Midwest, officials said that as of Friday, all of the city’s 1,500 diesel vehicles were powered with the environmentally friendlier fuel, intended to sharply reduce toxic diesel exhaust linked to a higher risk of asthma and premature death.
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Paul J. Henderson, The Times,  December 07, 2007
http://www.canada.com/chilliwacktimes/story.html?
id=6d96f897-def8-4f6d-9e03-f1870dc69e61

With concerns on the rise over air pollution in the Fraser Valley, the City of Chilliwack took a step at Monday’s council meeting towards cleaning things up a little.  Council agreed to a staff recommendation to switch all city vehicles including fire department units currently fueled with petroleum diesel over to a biodiesel blend fuel.  “This is a very good idea,” Mayor Clint Hames said of the move at Monday’s meeting.  “I want to congratulate staff for going in this direction,” said Coun. Mel Folkman.
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By James Menzies
Victoria, B.C. Nov. 29, 2007
Source: TruckNews.com
http://www.trucknews.com/issues_TN/ISarticle.asp?id=76985&story_id=&issue=11282007&PC=TN

The government of B.C. has invested $500,000 towards greening the province’s fleets.  The money will go towards the Green Fleets B.C. program, which aims to reduce emissions from vehicles of all kinds and improve air quality.
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North Convey, N.H. Dec 3, 2007
Source: TruckNews.com
http://www.trucknews.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=77164&issue=12032007

The National Biodiesel Board says it has received evidence that biodiesel is performing well in extremely cold conditions.  New Hampshire’s Cranmore Mountain Resort has been operating a fleet of biodiesel-fueled vehicles in temperatures at about –20 F without incident, the organization contends. (more…)