The Lancaster County Natural Gas Authority in South Carolina has begun replacing gasoline-powered Ford F-150 pickup trucks with bi-fuel F-150s as the utility plans to replace its entire fleet in six years, according to its general manager.
by Staff
August 28, 2014
Photo courtesy of LCNGA.
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Photo courtesy of LCNGA.
The Lancaster County Natural Gas Authority in South Carolina has begun replacing gasoline-powered Ford F-150 pickup trucks with bi-fuel F-150s as the utility plans to replace its entire fleet in six years, according to its general manager.
Earlier this summer, the utility added four bi-fuel 2015 F-150 trucks equipped with a gaseous conversion package costing $9,000 per truck. Vehicle modifiers E-Energy in Chester, S.C., and Altech-Eco in Asheville, N.C., supplied the vehicles.
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The utility is on the verge of ordering four more bi-fuel trucks, said Tim Thornton, the authority's general manager. The utility will be able to run the trucks for an additional 40,000 miles and save about $2,000 per year in fuel costs per vehicle.
Few commercial compressed natural gas fueling stations exist in the state, requiring the authority to begin installing fast-fill and slow-fill CNG fueling stations at its facility. The agency has added a CNG station at its main office, which is plans to relocate to a satellite location after constructing a large-scale public fast-fill station.
"Somebody has to start building the infrastructure," said Thornton. "We're starting slow and are going to expand as we get more experience."
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