The company announced that the engines manufactured by its subsidiary Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited (GYMCL) have experienced significant demand by municipal bus, tour coach and school bus operators in various Shaanxi municipalities, including Yulin, Baoji, Yan’an, Tongchuan and Hanzhong. GYMCL has also captured a large share of the country’s overall NGV market and its sales for 2012 are expected to increase to 20,000 units compared with the 13,000 units sold in 2011.

Its end products will be hydrogen and synthetic Audi e-gas, to be used as climate-friendly fuel for vehicles such as the new Audi A3 Sportback TCNG. The world’s first industrial plant for generating synthetic methane from CO2 and renewable electricity is under construction in Werlte. It will produce gas that can be fed into the natural-gas network.

The developer of the Dual-Fuel™ combustion technology announced that the order is for 30 Renault Magnum compatible Genesis Edge Dual-Fuel™ systems. This is in addition to a previous request for 50 units from Barcelona-based logistics operator announced in April. The product was launched by Clean Air Power earlier this year.

Since 2013 the annual Program for Russian Regions Gasification, regional programs for gas supply and gasification development and synchronization schedules for gasification programs will contain mandatory sections on the natural gas for vehicles use and the appropriate infrastructure development. The sections, in particular, will stipulate obligations of the parties to expand the network of filling stations, to provide land for their construction and to convert vehicles to CNG.