On June 3, APGA Vice President, Bob Beauregard met with Patrick Davis, director for DOE Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP).   The meeting served to initiate collaboration between APGA and VTP for the purpose of promoting the direct use of natural gas as a transportation fuel.  Bob walked through a power point demonstration on the exciting business undertaking of Hybrid Kinetic Motors (HK Motors) to produce tri-fuel (natural gas, electric battery, back-up gasoline) passenger vehicles in the U.S. and China.  Mr. Davis was very interested in HK’s plans and wants to know more about the vehicle’s battery and cost/kw and offered VTP labs to test the batteries’ capabilities.  Bob shared the April 14 press release announcing the strategic collaboration between APGA, NGVAmerica and HK Motors to promote the mass production and sales of natural gas-powered hybrid passenger vehicles.  See that release at www.apga.org.

Mr. Davis was pleased that APGA has also been working with VTP’s Clean Cities.  Clean Cities serves as VTP’s deployment arm by advancing the nation's economic, environmental and energy security by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to the reduction of petroleum consumption. Clean Cities has a network of approximately 90 volunteer coalitions, which develop public/private partnerships to promote alternative fuels and advanced vehicles, fuel blends, fuel economy, hybrid vehicles, and idle reduction.  On June 1, APGA hosted Clean Cities’ leadership to a working lunch in APGA’s offices.

For additional information, contact Bob Beauregard at 202-464-2742 or bbeauregard@apga.org.

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