Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe along with Volkswagen AG announced today that Chattanooga will be home to the company’s first electric vehicle manufacturing facility in North America. The project represents an investment of $800 million by [...]
Download the 2018 form Now! It is time to begin collecting your fleet's alternative fuel and advanced vehicle technology data for 2018. This form that you can access by clicking here contains all of the categories for the alt fuels and for vehicle technology like [...]
Today, the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition (ETCleanFuels) and Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC) released the "Reducing Diesel Emissions for a Healthier Tennessee" funding for 2019. This rebate program is Tennessee's state EPA funding for next year; access the below linked Request for [...]
Candace Gump of NET Trans and Happy Fox of Alliance AutoGas talk about Greeneville's newest propane refueling station for propane autogas vehicles. The new station is a public-private partnership and will serve as a refueling point for vehicles in the NET Trans fleet, as well as [...]
Today, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) released its final Beneficiary Mitigation Plan (BMP) for implementing the State’s initial allocation of almost $46 million from the Volkswagen Diesel Settlement (VW Settlement) Environmental Mitigation Trust (EMT). The purpose of the EMT is to execute [...]
On Tuesday September 18th, Tennessee Clean Fuels inducted six new fleets into the “Tennessee Green Fleets” Certification Program. The fleets were recognized at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville during the fourth annual Sustainable Transportation Forum & Expo, which is managed by the Tennessee Department of [...]
Jonathan and Daniel stopped by Waste Management's operations in Antioch, TN (on south side of greater Nashville) to see some of the new NGVs they have onsite that were funded through a grant program called "Reducing Diesel Emissions for a Healthier Tennessee." The roll off [...]
Jonathan and Daniel met Brad Reed and Amy Chiconas of Ingevity's adsorbed natural gas division at the 2018 Sustainable Fleet Technology Conference and Expo in Durham, NC in August 2018 and were wowed by the technology and cost-lowering opportunity that it brings to the #natgas [...]
In 2015, Covenant Transport installed 20 IdleAir idle-reduction bays at its main terminal and headquarters in Chattanooga. These units allow the driver of a class 8 tractor (truck) that has a “sleeper” compartment in the truck to turn off the 400-500 HP engine—that is primarily [...]
Trenton's Gibson County Energy Complex has been getting a boost in traffic in recent months, thanks to drivers stopping to fill up their trucks' tanks with compressed natural gas (CNG) on their way through the west Tennessee corridor that heads north all the way to Chicago [...]
