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Natural Gas as a Future Fuel for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Technical Paper
2001-01-2067
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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In addition to their significant environmental impacts, medium-duty and heavy-duty (HD) vehicles are high volume fuel users. Development of such vehicles, which include transit buses, refuse trucks, and HD Class 6-8 trucks, that are fueled with natural gas is strategic to market introduction of natural gas vehicles (NGV). Over the past five years the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies (OHVT) has funded technological developments in NGV systems to support the growth of this sector in the highly competitive transportation market. The goals are to minimize emissions associated with NGV use, to improve on the economies of scale, and to continue supporting the testing and safety assessments of all new systems. This paper provides an overview of the status of major projects under a program supported by DOE/OHVT and managed by Brookhaven National Laboratory. The discussion focuses on the program's technical strategy in meeting specific goals proposed by the NGV industry and the government. Relevant projects include the development of low-cost fuel storage, fueling infrastructure, and HD vehicle applications.
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Litzke, W. and Wegrzyn, J., "Natural Gas as a Future Fuel for Heavy-Duty Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-2067, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2067.Also In
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