Public Funding for Chive Fuels Limited

Project Evergreen is a collaboration between CNG Services, Chive Fuels, DHL Supply Chain and KBC Logistics. The project will provide three additional publicly accessible liquefied natural gas (LNG) refueling stations during 2014. LNG stations will also be put onto DHL’s Droitwich depot and KBC’s Grays depot. These stations will help to assess the potential benefits to the UK haulage industry in terms of cost reductions and reduced carbon dioxide emissions. DHL will buy 20 dual fuel conversions for new trucks, Chive Fuels will buy 1 new dual fuel conversion for a new truck and KBC Logistics will buy 10 dual fuel conversions for older trucks. Chive Fuels will upgrade five existing LNG stations with a system that will recover and recycle vented gas. The project will make natural gas more available to existing and to new customers and will put 31 duel fuel trucks on the road that would otherwise have been diesel.

The Wisely Driven Fuel Partnership (WDFP) Project is a collaboration between Robert Wiseman Diaries, Chive Fuels, Cenex and MIRA to undertake a Low Carbon Truck Demonstration Trial using 40 new OEM warranted dual fuel (DF) 40t articulated trucks substituting diesel with natural gas from 2 upgraded public access Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) stations, one in the West Midlands and one in Scotland. The performance of vehicles and refuelling infrastructure will be evaluated through modelling and model validation using data collected during both real world operation and under controlled test track conditions in order to verify real-world tank-to-wheel and well-to-wheel CO2 savings and air quality emission (NOx, PM) gains from the gas vehicles . The WDFP aim to validate the business case for the new generation of OEM DF trucks and report on the outputs as an aid to performance validation, refuelling infrastructure roll out and gas truck market development.