Kazakhstan, the vast central Asia republic kicked off its natural gas vehicle (NGV) program on 30-31st March 2011 with a Clean Cities Transportation Workshop in Almaty, the former capital city in the far eastern side of the country that is regularly choked by severe bouts of air pollution. Almaty ElectroTrans (AET), the city’s main mass transportation [...]

Both. Consumer behavior needs to change more toward group and public transport but yet maintain an option for convenient personal mobility when public transport is unavailable (or unacceptable). Yet the transport infrastructure – including vehicles and fuels – needs adaption away from the long time status quo fuels and individual cars. It’s difficult to generalize [...]

The European Commission (EC) released a communication on 28th April in response to a request from the Spanish Presidency to prepare a report on Clean Fuel Vehicles focusing specifically on electric vehicles (EVs). Spain now produces as much as 30% of its electricity from renewable sources, including solar and wind energy. The European Commission’s response [...]

The European Commission and Parliament have done an admirable job tackling the very complex and diverse alternative fuels issues in the transport sector. Different alternatives have been addressed in various directives – liquid biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells, electricity, and to a much lesser degree natural gas and liquid petroleum gas (LPG). But the policy approach [...]

The growth of renewable biogas and biomethane (biogas upgraded to pipeline quality standard) presents a new potential for the natural gas industry, demonstrating that natural gas is a diverse, renewable resource and not only a traditional fossil fuel with a limited long term supply potential. Biogas is taking its place as part of a larger [...]

The growth of renewable biogas and biomethane (biogas upgraded to pipeline quality standard) presents a new potential for the natural gas industry, demonstrating that natural gas is a diverse, renewable resource and not only a traditional fossil fuel with a limited long term supply potential. Biogas is taking its place as part of a larger [...]

The answer will differ on a country-by-country basis and will depend upon each country’s perceived need to reduce dependence on fossil energy, whether it is to reduce the impacts of global warming, diversifying the energy mix, improving energy security, achieving a better balance of trade or to improve the quality of life. Two key factors [...]

The search for alternatives to liquid petroleum – gasoline and diesel – already represents a paradigm change of the status quo ‘transportation culture.’ Changing the ‘transportation culture’ involves a different combination of fuels, technologies, and consumer behavior, both in purchasi [...]

The current level of global trade in LNG, according to the International Energy Agency, is anticipated to nearly double by 2020 and, potentially, triple by 2030 and beyond so the market for liquefied natural gas vehicles (L-NGVs) should strengthen concurrently as more countries incorporate LNG into [...]