Fiat is to supply the Beijing Public
Transport Company with 1000 natural gas engines to fit
to the city’s bus fleet in a bid to dramatically reduce
air and noise pollution in the run-up to the 2008
Olympic Games.
The Italian car and commercial vehicle manufacturer has
already supplied 320 natural gas engines as part of a
development programme initiated between the Italian
Ministry for the Environment and Territory, the China
State Agency for the Environmental Protection and the
Municipality of Beijing.
The contract is the first realization of a range of
pilot projects and feasibility studies for natural
resources protection and preservation, energy
efficiency, renewable sources promotion, low emission
transportation systems and technologies, sustainable
agriculture and training courses in environment and
energy fields.
This supply of natural gas-supplied
heavy engines is the largest ever made by Fiat Group and
it is also one of the most important in the world. These
engines, manufactured at FPT facility in Turin, will
equip locally manufactured busses which will be driving
in the Chinese capital in coming months.
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The Chinese City of
Beijing has a long-term commitment to powering all
its buses by 'clean' technology. In 1999 to speed
this process of switching to clean fuels up the
public transportation department purchased 2,283 new
buses (above) that fell into this category. The
majority of Beijing buses now utilise this
technology and the aims is to raise this to around
100 pct prior to the Olympic Games. |
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Fiat Powertrain
Technologies is a major global player in the 'clean'
fuels engine market: this Iveco bus is powered by a
CNG engine. |
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Fiat supplied Beijing Transport Company with 320 natural gas
engines during 2002 to 2004, developed through a research
and development program financed by the Italian Ministry for
the Environment and Territory. These engines, currently used
on buses in Beijing, have proved to be reliable and deliver
a dramatic reduction in noise and air pollution compared to
the existing bus engines.
The natural gas engines designed and
produced by Fiat Powertrain Technologies are among the
cleanest existing today and they dramatically reduce the
noise of vehicles on which they are installed. Thanks to a
stoichiometric combustion process, based on a suitable
air/fuel ratio, which uses an exhaust gas three-way
catalytic post-treating system, they are able to comply with
the strictest standards, such as European standards called
Enhanced Environment-friendly Vehicle (EEV), which will come
into force much after 2010 for standard production diesel
vehicles.
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