* UK - Coca-Cola Biomethane HGV Trial
Leicestershire,UK -CENEX (PR) -May 2012: -- Driven by a desire to produce a step change reduction in fleet carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) contracted Cenex to evaluate and compare the emissions, fuel consumption, economics, reliability and operability of a 26 tonne Iveco Stralis gas vehicle with that of a diesel Stralis vehicle. The trial vehicles - one operating solely on biomethane gas, and one diesel powered – were highly comparable... Gas vehicle operation reduced NOx and PM emissions by 85.6% and 97.1% respectively. The gas vehicle achieved a 50.3 per cent saving in well-to-wheel GHG emissions, compared to the diesel Stralis vehicle. However, this was achieved using a temporary filling station – a more efficient permanent station being installed at the CCE depot raises the GHG saving to 60.7 per cent. Additionally, operating the gas vehicle on biomethane reduced the fuel costs by 12.8 per cent... On conclusion of the trial CCE invested in a fleet of 14 gas Iveco Stralis vehicles and a gas station which is due to be operational at the Enfield depot in June 2012. The new CCE gas fleet will consume approximately 168 tonnes of biomethane saving over 300 tonnes of CO2, 1590 kgs of NOx and 33 kgs of PM emissions per annum...
* Sweden: Volvo Trucks hails bio-DME trials a success
Torslanda,Göterborg,Sweden -Volvo Trucks (PR) -June 01, 2012: -- Volvo Trucks has revealed that field tests of vehicles powered by bio-DME, a fuel that the company asserts can be produced from biomass, both cost and energy efficiently ... Bio-DME Project aims to assess if there is a market for Bio-DME (Di-Methyl-Ether) applied to vehicles. Already halfway there this two-year project duration, and preliminary results show that Bio-DME is already functioning in everyday professional work. If the diesel is replaced by the Bio-DME, CO2 emissions would be reduced by 95%... Since autumn last year, ten trucks Volvo Bio-DME have been running regularly and has now been found that the results exceed expectations. Recently the first of these trucks exceeded the barrier of 100,000 kilometers. In total, the trucks have traveled 400,000 kilometers...Labels: clean alternative fuels
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