World CNG, a natural gas vehicle conversion company, plans to expand into Chicago and Las Vegas and add a new distribution center in the Southwest following a $5 million investment in the company from Union Bay Capital. The Kent, WA, company focuses on fleet and transit conversion and has converted more than 1,000 cars, vans and trucks for a variety of private and public fleets.  The company also builds and distributes proprietary conversion kits and parts for others to install....More

LOUISVILLE, KY. Westport Innovations and Clean Energy Fuels Corp. have formed a new joint marketing program to encourage the adoption of natural gas vehicles. The announcement was made this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show. The companies will bundle the Westport LNG tank system, optimized for use with the Cummins Westport ISL G or the new Cummins Westport ISX12 G engines, and a long-term fuel contract with Clean Energy into a package for qualified customers....More

Love’s Travel Stops is adding more fast-fill compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling lanes at eight of its travel stops in Texas. The lanes, to be installed at locations on highways between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, are expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of this year....More

NASHVILLE, TN. Several trucking operations with extensive experience operating natural-gas vehicles (NGVs) related why they run engines fueled by CNG (compressed natural gas) and LNG (liquefied natural gas) and what advantages these powerplants are delivering. The fleet managers spoke during a well-attended technical session presented here yesterday during the Technology & Maintenance Council’s annual meeting....More

Indianapolis. Utilimaster Corp., a division of Spartan Motors, has struck an alliance with LandiRenzo to offer compressed natural gas (CNG) conversions on Isuzu NPR-HD gas vehicles. LandiRenzo is an alternative fuel solutions provider....More

When you market and deliver a product, but don’t actually use it yourself, people will ask why. That is no longer a question that executives at Linde North America have to answer. The New Jersey-based division of the Linde Group, a global gas and engineering company, has now deployed 23 liquefied natural gas (LNG) Class 8 tractors in its U.S. fleet of 625 Class 8 power units following a successful test of three vehicles last year....More

The Natural Gas Vehicle Institute (NGVi) is offering training seminars for those interested in learning about design and operation of a compressed natural gas fueling station....More

Just eight months after deploying 27 Kenworth T440 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, Monarch Beverage is committing further to the fuel. The Indianapolis-based beer and wine distributor has announced it will convert 85% of its trucks to CNG power by 2015....More

There’s a warm blue (for the color of the flame when natural gas is ignited) glow being cast over the spec’ing choices of more and more truck fleets seeking to go green, both to gain green by spending less on fuel and to demonstrate environmental sensibility by switching to trucks powered by either compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG).Natural gas (NG) is starting to catch fire in the truck-fleet market....More

Vocational Energy, which specializes in engineering, designing and building compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations, has been acquired by Fortistar affiliate TruStar Energy. Terms were not disclosed. TruStar Energy will continue the existing construction business of Vocational Energy and expand into offering long-term fuel supply agreements to companies wishing to convert their transportation fleets to CNG, the company said....More