All About Alternate Fuel Vehicles (AFV)

Seoul, Korea, 4 June 2007
Source: Chosun.com
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200706/200706040014.html

Hyundai Motor said on Sunday that it will release an LPG hybrid in 2009. The Avante LPG Hybrid will combine an LPG engine with an electric motor in the popular midsize sedan. It will be the first Korean hybrid car for consumers.  Hyundai reckons the car will use only 30 percent of the fuel consumed by the existing Avante since it will have an estimated fuel efficiency of 19 to 20 km per liter and run on LPG, which costs half the price of gasoline. Production of Hyundai’s hybrid versions of the Verna and the Pride, test models of which are currently being used by the government, will be suspended in 2008. “We plan to release an LPG hybrid before a gasoline hybrid because there are sufficient LPG fuel facilities and we have the advanced technology. A gasoline hybrid will be released by 2010,” a Hyundai Motor official said.
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By Florante S. Solmerin /June 21, 2007
Source:Manila Standard Today
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=news5_june21_2007

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday ordered transportation officials to explore the use of liquefied petroleum gas on all government vehicles.  “Impressive. This alternative fuel could cut down government expenses,” Mrs. Arroyo said during a demonstration at the Quezon City terminal of the MGE taxi company, which has turned to using LPG.  Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board chairman Thompson Lantion said the President ordered him and Transport Secretary Leandro Mendoza to make the necessary studies and coordinate with other government offices to see if they could reap savings by using LPG.
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Express News Service / JUne 22, 2007
Source: Express India
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=242257

Pune, June 21: Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd (PVPL) will launch CNG and LPG versions of ‘Ape’, a three-wheeler cargo vehicle, in a month. The company will roll out these vehicles in 11 cities — including Pune — that have got the nod from the government to sell LPG and CNG gas through LPG dispensing stations. “The vehicles will initially be launched in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, NCR, Agra, Lucknow and Ahmedabad,” Ashotosh Khosla, director (sales) PVPL said. “These vehicles will be manufactured in the company’s existing plant at Baramati near Pune. There will not be a major price difference between the diesel and gas-based vehicles.”
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24 June 2007
Source: Vietnam News Agency
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01SUN240607

Bui Van Ga is trying to talk anyone and everyone into trying his new liquid petroleum gas converter, which increases motorbikes’ fuel efficiency and decreases harmful exhaust. Nguyen Ngoc Duy tests it out.  As policymakers look to liberalise the retail petrol industry and oil prices in the global market hovers around US$65 a barrel, search for an alternative auto fuel is the right move on a very slippery road.

One entrepreneurial scientist is tackling the problem head on by advocating liquid petroleum gas (LPG) conversion kits he invented for motorcycles, which are not only cost effective but also environmentally friendly.  “The [conversion] system is complete in terms of the technology, and all that we need now is [further] Government support,” said Bui Van Ga, director of Da Nang University.  The kits allow motorists to use both LPG and regular petrol in their tanks.
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London, United Kingdom, May 31, 2007
Source: NewswireToday
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/18873/

Natural Gas Storage Infrastructure by 2010, this market will reach nearly $31 billion, says new report available from ReportBuyer.com.  Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors has now added a new market report titled ‘Natural Gas Storage Infrastructure’
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June 18, 2007
Source: Oilvoice.com
Source: http://www.oilvoice.com/9899.htm

Fortune Oil announces a major step forward in creating an integrated gas business in China by acquiring a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) production and distribution enterprise, to be renamed as Fortune Green Energy (Henan) Development Company Limited (“Green Energy”).
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Santo Domingo, May, 28, 2007
Source: Domincan Today
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=24096

The Dominican Government has a strategic plan to effectively adhere to president Leonel Fernandez’s instructions to substitute the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LGP) for Natural Gas in vehicles.  Industry and Commerce minister Francisco Javier Garcia said today the plan is to install some 200 shops in a 3 year period around the country, to convert 158,000 vehicles to use Natural Gas.
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By Felicity Barringer and Matthew L. Wald
Mountain View, California, June 19, 2007
Source: International Herald Tribune-Business
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/19/technology/hybrids.php

Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the country’s electric grids, and vice versa.  The companies displayed six Toyota Prius and Ford Escape hybrid vehicles Monday, vehicles that were modified to run partly on electricity from the power grid, allowing them to go up to 75 miles, or 120 kilometers, on a gallon of gas, nearly double the number of miles of a regular hybrid. They also modified one vehicle to give electricity back to the power company.
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Lima,  9 June, 2007
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-4028-lima-perus-natural-gas-solution

Peru’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Juan Valdivia, has announced the inauguration of 3 new fuel stations that will service natural-gas vehicles (NGV). The natural-gas fuel stations will be inaugurated within the next few weeks in the regions of Lima and Callao to meet the demand of motorists who have had their car’s converted to run on natural gas.
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Srinagar, June 18, 2007
ANI Correspondent , Dailyindia.com/ANI
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/150343.php/Kashmir-to-soon-have-LPG-CNG-driven-vehicles

The Union Petroleum Secretary M S Srinivasan today said that the Centre would soon introduce Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuels for automobiles in Jammu and Kashmir.  In an attempt to maintain the delicate ecological balance in the hilly State, Srinivasan told reporters that auto LPG would be introduced in a big way and it would be an intermediate arrangement till a CNG pipeline is extended to the State.
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