This document discusses advancements in green truck technology that improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. It describes International Truck's Green Diesel Technology system that reduces emissions by 99% and has been used in buses. Stricter EPA regulations in 2007 will require ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel to enable advanced emissions controls. The 21st Century Truck Program aims to increase truck fuel economy and displace petroleum fuels. Alternative fuels and technologies discussed include natural gas, biodiesel, electric hybrids, and improving diesel efficiency through electric auxiliaries.
Mastering carbon management - Balancing trade-offs to optimize supply chain management. Reducing the supply chain’s carbon footprint will become an inescapable obligation.
Ricardo at the third edition of Take A Breath, workshop organized by Loccioni Group, to discuss the potential of innovation in the automotive industry.
On 28th and 29th June 2012, 50 companies of 12 countries - including automobile manufacturers (OEMs), automotive component manufacturers (Tier 1) and the international scientific community - met in Italy in Marche region, to discuss the future of the motor.The international speakers parterre - from Volksvagen to Daimler, from General Motors to Ferrari, with Denso, Magneti Marelli, Continental, Delphi, Bosch, IAV, Cummins, Fev, Ricardo with the Polytechnic of Turin and Chalmers University - has drawn the technical, economic and scientific scenario of the sector as well as the current international strategies.
The Canadian Fuels Association represents the industry that produces, distributes and markets petroleum products in Canada. Contributing to a stronger economy, getting greener every year, prioritizing safety, enabling smarter choices and taking you further.
Read this to learn how we do this.
To learn more, please visit: http://www.canadianfuels.ca
[PDF] Press Release: CO2 Milestone Reached in the U.S.: Daimler Commercial Vehicles Impress During Extensive Test Drive
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Workshop Inbound Marketing voor Centraal Beheer Achmea: De sweet spot van suc...Berd Warmelts
Presentatie gegeven op 24 mei en 6 juni 2012 aan ca. 40 adviseurs in markt voor bedrijfspensioenen op uitnodiging van Centraal Beheer Achmea. Hij gaat over de sweet spot van vindbaarheid: het middelpunt van content, search en social waarmee de adviseur ervoor zorgt dat de klant relevante informatie vindt daar waar hij zoekt naar antwoorden op zijn pensioenvragen.
Mastering carbon management - Balancing trade-offs to optimize supply chain management. Reducing the supply chain’s carbon footprint will become an inescapable obligation.
Ricardo at the third edition of Take A Breath, workshop organized by Loccioni Group, to discuss the potential of innovation in the automotive industry.
On 28th and 29th June 2012, 50 companies of 12 countries - including automobile manufacturers (OEMs), automotive component manufacturers (Tier 1) and the international scientific community - met in Italy in Marche region, to discuss the future of the motor.The international speakers parterre - from Volksvagen to Daimler, from General Motors to Ferrari, with Denso, Magneti Marelli, Continental, Delphi, Bosch, IAV, Cummins, Fev, Ricardo with the Polytechnic of Turin and Chalmers University - has drawn the technical, economic and scientific scenario of the sector as well as the current international strategies.
The Canadian Fuels Association represents the industry that produces, distributes and markets petroleum products in Canada. Contributing to a stronger economy, getting greener every year, prioritizing safety, enabling smarter choices and taking you further.
Read this to learn how we do this.
To learn more, please visit: http://www.canadianfuels.ca
[PDF] Press Release: CO2 Milestone Reached in the U.S.: Daimler Commercial Vehicles Impress During Extensive Test Drive
[http://www.lifepr.de?boxid=318564]
Workshop Inbound Marketing voor Centraal Beheer Achmea: De sweet spot van suc...Berd Warmelts
Presentatie gegeven op 24 mei en 6 juni 2012 aan ca. 40 adviseurs in markt voor bedrijfspensioenen op uitnodiging van Centraal Beheer Achmea. Hij gaat over de sweet spot van vindbaarheid: het middelpunt van content, search en social waarmee de adviseur ervoor zorgt dat de klant relevante informatie vindt daar waar hij zoekt naar antwoorden op zijn pensioenvragen.
Green port congress 10 oct 2013 Experiences with innovative solutions to redu...Geerard Collijs
The 8th GreenPort Congress will continue the theme of examining the challenges and opportunities of developing good practice and sustainable solutions and applications.
Environmental managers, planners, harbour masters, logistics managers, energy managers, sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility executives from ports, terminal operators, shipping lines, shippers, logistics companies and other industry stakeholders, will all come together to learn, discuss, debate and network at the two day Congress and it's associated social events. These include an evening Welcome Reception on 8 October 2013, the Gala Dinner on 9 October 2013 and a Tour of Antwerp Port on 11 October 2013, all of which are included in the delegate fee.
More than 200 port professionals from more than 30 countries and 60 ports, terminal operators, shipping lines, shippers and logistics companies attended the 2012 GreenPort Congress, the 2013 Congress is on course to attract a wider audience than ever before.
- See more at: http://www.greenport.com/congress/about-the-conference#sthash.AK8d2wsb.dpuf
MAXI-MIZER provides an answer to a world crisis: excessive emissions, fuel inefficiencies, aging vehicles/machinery, and a stressed-out military due to unreliable equipment. MAXI-MIZER will provide the world with the G8 Summit 2050 emission standards in 2010. It will increase the reliability and longevity of our military by an additional 50% in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq. By using MAXI-MIZER, high fuel consuming countries will be able to reduce emissions by more than 80%, reduce their carbon footprints, and lower their fuel consumption by more than 10% while eliminating various blends of diesel and gasoline such as: premium, mid-grade, and diesel 1; thus, causing international oil consumption to drop by more than 50%.
MAXI-MIZER provides an answer to a world crisis: excessive emissions, fuel inefficiencies, aging vehicles/machinery, and a stressed-out military due to unreliable equipment. MAXI-MIZER will provide the world with the G8 Summit 2050 emission standards in 2010. It will increase the reliability and longevity of our military by an additional 50% in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq. By using MAXI-MIZER, high fuel consuming countries will be able to reduce emissions by more than 80%, reduce their carbon footprints, and lower their fuel consumption by more than 10% while eliminating various blends of diesel and gasoline such as: premium, mid-grade, and diesel 1; thus, causing international oil consumption to drop by more than 50%.
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
2. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION
GREEN TRUCKS
Left:
Willie Nelson
offers his own
brand of
clean-burning
biodiesel.
use of advanced emis- 11 million engines in use today. Fortunately, the same
sions-control devices like clean diesel technologies that will power the next
oxidation catalysts and generation of on- and off-road diesel vehicles and equip-
particulate traps, which work ment can be applied to some older engines, reducing
well with ULSD but suffer emissions by up to 90%.
drastically reduced operating
lifetimes with high sulfur fuel. BEHOLD THE 21ST-CENTURY TRUCK
“We look at it as the clean diesel The 21st-Century Truck Program, inaugurated in 2000,
system really coming together,” says Allen is a multi-agency and industry partnership aimed at
Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology increasing fuel efficiency, reducing emissions, enhancing
Forum, an industry organization based in Frederick, safety, reducing ownership and operating costs, and
Md. “The cleaner fuels, the advanced engines, and the maintaining or enhancing performance. Government
emissions control systems are three pieces being participants include the EPA, Department of Energy,
optimized that, working together, really chart the course Department of Transportation, and Department of
for the next generation of clean diesel technology.” Defense, which highlights common civilian and military
Schaeffer adds that major milestones coming up truck technology goals as well as the potential transfer
for heavy-duty highway commercial vehicles in 2007 of military and civilian technologies.
should bring greater than a 98% reduction in emissions A key element is the program’s “roadmap.” This
of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter compared to plan establishes technical targets and fuel efficiency
10 or 15 years ago, with an additional 90% reduction goals, for 2010 and beyond, that seek to substantially
between 2007 and 9/12/05 6:20:55 PM
NBB_Ad2a.pdf 2010. increase truck fuel economy while meeting prevailing
New EPA regulations do not affect the approximately emission standards and also displacing petroleum fuels
by 5%. The program includes heavy-duty hybrids along
with its focus on diesel and renewable fuels.
UNITED IN A COMMON GOAL
An example of this focus on fuel efficiency is provided
by International and Eaton Corp., which were recently
selected to manufacture diesel-electric hybrid trucks
for a national pilot program serving the utility industry.
The two companies are developing an integrated diesel-
hybrid powertrain that will be tested in at least 20
factory-built International utility trucks, using an Inter-
national DT 466 in-line six-cylinder diesel engine with
an Eaton hybrid-electric drivetrain. WestStart, which
operates its Hybrid Truck Users Forum, will be admin-
istering the pilot program with the support of the U.S.
Army’s National Automotive Center.
Bringing advanced hybrid-truck technology to
customers is also an area of focus at UQM Technolo-
gies Inc., in Frederick, Colo., a manufacturer of small,
lightweight, and efficient motors, generators, and
power electronic controllers. Applications range from
electrically intensive series hybrids, in which all power
to the wheels is provided by electric motors, to lower-
power parallel (mild) hybrids in which the engine and
electric motor both provide power to the wheels. UQM
systems are under evaluation in tractors, trucks, buses,
and on- and off-highway military vehicles such as the
U.S. military’s Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTVs),
plus manned and unmanned vehicle applications.
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GREEN TRUCKS
These advantages have attracted
customers ranging from Deere
& Co., Stewart & Stevenson, and
Eaton to the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force.
UQM Technologies is additionally
developing innovative ways to help
engine and vehicle manufacturers
meet 2010 diesel emission stan-
We’re driving toward
dards through improved auxiliary
systems that eliminate parasitic
loads on engines – an area of focus a cleaner future.
of the 21st-Century Truck Roadmap.
By replacing belted, geared, and
hydraulic driven water pumps, oil
and fuel pumps, fan drives, and
air conditioning with electrically
driven units, electric auxiliaries can
operate as needed, independent of
any power supplied by the engine.
This approach provides increased
fuel efficiency and reduced engine
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is dedicated to
load over conventional systems that
developing low-cost, clean air transportation technologies
operate continuously when directly
connected to an engine. for our business and yours. Since rolling out
our first natural gas truck in 1985, we’ve expanded our
Below: The military is evaluating advanced fleet to include over 850 low-emission vehicles.
hybrid truck technology for its FMTVs.
We’ve also formed partnerships with manufacturers,
government organizations, and private
companies, creating a nationwide network
of over 500 fleets, operating thousands of
natural gas vehicles. Through continued
support of cost-effective technological advancements
and environmental education, we’re proving to our
customers and employees that clean air transportation
is not only good for the environment, it’s good for business.
If you’d like to learn more about clean transportation technologies,
visit our website at www.pge.com/cleanair or call 1-800-684-4648.
ANOTHER WAY THE PEOPLE OF PG&E ARE DEDICATED TO ENERGY CONSERVATION.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES
Diesel fuel is the trucking industry’s
fuel of choice for many reasons,
primary among them its widespread
availability. However, there are
markets where alternative fuels
could become popular, especially
where fleets always operate on the
same route and regularly refuel at
the same locations. Other possibili-
ties include dual-fuel vehicles that
can operate on an alternative fuel
when available and conventional
diesel fuel when it is not, or alterna-
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GREEN TRUCKS
tive fuels that can be seamlessly 850 natural gas vehicles in its own
POWERING TOMORROW’S substituted for diesel fuel. fleet, including gas service trucks,
VEHICLES, TODAY Biodiesel falls into the latter cat- meter reader vehicles, and pool cars.
egory. An alternative fuel that can Providing alternative fuels with the
UQM Technologies Inc. (AMEX:
be made from any fat or vegetable opportunity to compete has long been
UQM) is a recognized technol- oil, typically domestically grown soy- a focus at San Francisco-based PG&E.
ogy leader in the development beans, biodiesel works in any diesel The utility’s support of its customers’
and manufacture of high- engine with few or no modifications. use of green technologies has brought
performance, power-dense, It can be used in pure form or blended many success stories, among them
with petroleum diesel at any level, 26 compressed natural-gas refuse
and energy-efficient elec-
the most popular fuel mixtures being trucks operating in Sunnyvale, Calif.
tric motors, generators, and B2 (2% biodiesel and 98% conven- On a larger scale, hundreds of natural
power electronic controllers. tional diesel), or B20 (20% biodiesel).
Applications include electric In addition to its growing popularity for
use in passenger vehicles, biodiesel is
propulsion systems for hybrid,
used by more than 500 major com-
battery-electric, and fuel-cell mercial fleets across the country.
vehicles, plus 42-volt under- More than 500 retail filling stations
the-hood power accessories make biodiesel available to the public,
and vehicle auxiliaries for and some 1,400 petroleum distributors
carry it nationwide.
greater efficiency. For 25 years,
The use of biodiesel yields numer-
customers from major auto- ous environmental benefits, including
makers to the U.S. military have significant reductions in carbon mon-
benefited from “UQM Inside.” oxide emissions, particulate matter,
See us at www.uqm.com. unburned hydrocarbons, and sulfates.
On a lifecycle basis, biodiesel reduces
carbon dioxide by 78% compared to
Above: PG&E has a fleet of 850
petroleum diesel. natural-gas vehicles.
According to the National Biodiesel
WESTSTART-CALSTART Board, a nonprofit trade association, gas trucks are in operation with Waste
in Jefferson City, Mo., dedicated to Management Inc., California’s leading
is North America’s leading coordinating the biodiesel industry and provider of solid waste and recycling
advanced transportation educating the public about the fuel, services. Starting with one of the first
technologies organization. this makes biodiesel the most effective pilot projects in 1995, Waste Manage-
As a participant-supported greenhouse gas-mitigation technol- ment’s fleet of natural gas vehicles has
ogy currently available for heavy-duty grown to 462 trucks running on com-
non-profit of more than 115
vehicles and equipment. Biodiesel’s pressed and liquefied natural gas.
companies and agencies, it inclusion in the landmark Energy Bill Looking to the future, PG&E will contin-
is dedicated to expanding recently signed into law shows recogni- ue its focus on green technologies while
and supporting a high-tech tion by Congress and President Bush working with its customers and govern-
transportation industry that biodiesel is an important part of ment agencies to advance its vision of
the solution for reducing dependence clean natural-gas vehicles as part of
that cleans the air, creates
on foreign oil, boosting the economy, the solution to air quality challenges.
jobs, and improves energy and benefiting the environment. “The state has been making good
efficiency, while lessening progress to improve air quality, but cur-
dependence on foreign oil WALKING THE WALK rent policy ignores growing concerns
about petroleum dependency,” says
and reducing global warming. Another popular alternative fuel that’s
been a focus of private, public, and Brian Stokes, manager of the clean air
It plays a national role facili- transportation division at PG&E. “The
government fleets at all levels for
tating advanced systems and legislature has approved $150 million
years is clean-burning natural gas.
fuels for transit and heavy- One of the largest privately owned a year in incentive programs to facilitate
duty vehicles, and new fleets in the country is found at Pacific fleet emission-lowering conversions and
Gas and Electric Co., which has been new cleaner vehicle purchases. How-
forms of mobility.
operating alternative fuel vehicles ever, most of these funds are going to
Visit www.weststart.org. diesel retrofits and re-powers because
since 1985 and now has more than
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GREEN TRUCKS
the incentive program criteria are based on current
cost effectiveness. Unfortunately, improving petroleum
product performance by itself is only part of the solu-
tion, and we will never get to a diversified portfolio of
fuels with this strategy. The criteria need to be adjusted
to give emerging alternative fuels – that have the
potential of achieving cost-effectiveness with near-term
subsidies – a chance to compete.”
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…
“Even with the advanced technology that lies on the
horizon for fuel cells and hydrogen vehicles, there’s
always going to be a vital role for diesel technology,”
says the Diesel Technology Forum’s Schaeffer.
“When we examine the reasons why people are
using diesel today, we find they’re the very same
reasons why people used diesel many decades ago.”
According to Schaeffer, it’s really the whole package
– a unique combination of fuel efficiency, perfor-
mance, and unmatched power density that’s able to
deliver more horsepower and more force to get the
job done using the lowest amount of fuel possible.
Indeed, all technologies and fuels that make
trucks operate cleaner and more efficiently – from
advanced diesel and biodiesel to hybrid-electric and
natural gas – are increasingly important to not only
the bottom line, but energy security and our quality
of life. It’s a challenge that is being well met by com-
panies large and small in a dedicated effort to bring
trucks and fuels into a new era.
WEB DIRECTORY
Diesel Technology Forum Pacific Gas and
http://www.dieselforum.org Electric Co.
International Truck and http://www.pge.com
Engine Corp. UQM Technologies Inc.
http://www.internationaldelivers.com http://www.uqm.com
National Biodiesel Board WestStart–CALSTART Inc.
http://www.biodiesel.org http://www.calstart.org
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