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Southland Transportation adds 101 Blue Bird Propane Vision buses to districts in Canada

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Districts in Canada are specifying the technology due to the superior cold weather operation, reduced maintenance and clean emissions, the company said. The buses, which are fully customizable, feature 60% less carbon monoxide, 12% less carbon dioxide, 20% less nitrogen oxide and up to 25% less greenhouse gases than gasoline.

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Hertz introduces CNG vehicle rentals in US; Civics and Yukons

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Hertz is committed to providing our customers with a full spectrum of vehicle options to suit their rental needs including clean emission vehicles such as CNG, electric vehicles, as well as other fuel-efficient vehicles included in our Green Traveler Collection.

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Upcoming Mazda2 will offer new SKYACTIV 1.5-liter diesel

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liter clean diesel engine making use of the company’s next-generation SKYACTIV technology. clean diesel engine available in models such as the Mazda CX-5, the SKYACTIV-D 1.5 clean diesel engine available in models such as the Mazda CX-5, the SKYACTIV-D 1.5 a newly developed 1.5-liter Mazda unveiled the 1.5-liter Earlier post.).

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Ford to offer 2014 F-150 with natural gas option

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liter V6 engine will be available this fall with a factory-installed, gaseous-fuel prep package that includes hardened valves, valve seats, pistons and rings so it can operate on either natural gas or gasoline through separate fuel systems. The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter When the 3.7-liter CNG sells for an average of $2.11 per gallon.

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U. Mich, Ford team studies effect of ethanol in reducing PM from DISI engines; insights into fueling strategies to reduce soot

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A team from the University of Michigan and Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering group in Dearborn has studied the effects of ethanol on reducing particulate emissions from a direct injection spark ignition (DISI) engine by comparing neat anhydrous ethanol with a baseline fuel of reference grade gasoline (indolene).

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POSTECH, Hyundai team develops new more thermally robust catalyst for NOx reduction with diesel engines

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Improvement of the thermal durability of the SCR catalysts would therefore be the key to maximizing the fuel efficiency, as well as to producing clean emissions from diesel engines. The feed composition is the same as that described above. Source: Ryu et al. Click to enlarge.

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