As the push for sustainable practices intensifies, fleet operators face crucial decisions regarding alternative fuels. Propane and electric vehicles are two prominent options.
What kind of fleet is best suited for electric versus propane autogas?
Maintaining park spaces that are vibrant, sustainable and accessible is always an energy-intensive effort.
Dedicated people provide a heroic share of the power supply, but still there are needs to be met – lighting, building heat, grounds maintenance and transportation spring to mind. The push toward net-zero emissions, together with the imperatives of efficiency and cost-effectiveness, make energy one of the defining challenges for park advocates and professionals.
Last week, the ROUSH CleanTech team spent several days with our “extended family.” Our exclusive school bus partner, Blue Bird, hosts an annual dealer meeting to share successes from the past year and — more importantly — discuss strategic initiatives for the year ahead.
During the historic 2024 hurricane season, hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost access to power, heat, cooking, and hot water, creating an urgent need for propane to get through the ensuing days and weeks. Propane companies around the country have rallied to provide immediate and long-term relief, helping communities get back on their feet.
The School District of Philadelphia is embracing cleaner, greener transportation by adding buses that are 96% cleaner than traditional diesel vehicles to its fleet.
With this month’s focus on the autogas market, I wanted to provide you with some safety features related to autogas.
If you service autogas vehicles, you should be aware that the National Fire Protection Association provides a set of guidelines to consider when garaging autogas vehicles. You should also become familiar with the requirements for facility design to ensure a safe work environment.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is providing $1 million in funding assistance to school districts for the purchase of school buses powered by propane.
When the sun is shining, you aren’t thinking about the reliability and resiliency of your fleet. But when severe weather or other power interruption events strike, fleet owners need absolute confidence they can keep their vehicles on the road and moving without reliance on the electrical grid. From winter snowstorms and severe weather to increasingly prevalent forest fires and tropical storms, disruptions to electrical grids and energy distribution networks aren’t a question of if they will happen, but a matter of when they will happen. Fleet owners need to be prepared for the inevitable. That’s where the resiliency and reliability of propane autogas comes into its own.
In 2009, Susan Roush-McClenaghan became the first woman to win in the special final shootout round at the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing’s annual event. Her race car runs on propane.
The fuel that has powered some of the Bonny Eagle district school buses, is not what you would expect.
Bonny Eagle is the first school district east of the Rocky Mountains to utilize school buses fueled by renewable propane. Renewable propane is typically made out of things like used cooking oil, vegetable oil, and animal fat, but is chemically identical to regular propane.
