Transport committee  I don't have a specific number in mind. We talk about a paradigm shift in the industry, and what comes first, the chicken or the egg, including having a decent infrastructure in certain environments such that people can convert vehicles if there's an incentive. For example, in A

Transport committee  Parts of it, you certainly could transfer. On a $5,000 conversion, roughly $1,200 to $1,500 of that might be the fuel tank itself. The fuel tank has a very, very long life and is likely transferable from vehicle to vehicle. You probably couldn't convert or transfer over the harne

Transport committee  I think you'd have to look at the resale value of that vehicle as well and take that into consideration. I call my vehicle a tri-bred. It's a gasoline, electric, and LPG autogas-powered vehicle. When I look at changing my vehicle, I'm going to have to consider this if I sell it.

Transport committee  I would agree with you. In terms of the practical implementation of something like that, I think you would need to have some type of standard identifier that you could put on the vehicle. So when the vehicle is registered, it would either qualify for this right or not. You would

Transport committee  In our business we're talking to fleets all the time about the pros and cons of converting their vehicles to run on LPG auto gas. Typically with courier companies in certain municipalities, they have to do deliveries and go underground to do that. One of the barriers they have to

Transport committee  The only one I'm familiar with is Cummins, which, I think, just recently announced that it's going to be using some of that technology on its stationary industrial engines, larger horsepower engines, which are typically used for power generation in remote sites. I believe they're

Transport committee  From an OEM standpoint, I'm not exactly sure. We supply this technology for stationary applications, as well as for on-road and off-road. We put them on farm equipment, diesel-powered tractors, highway tractors, passenger buses. Tyt Transport in Quebec has a few units on the high

Transport committee  That's correct. You would have to refuel the diesel tank and the propane tank on that vehicle. In terms of refuelling, when you add the system for LPG auto gas, you run into some of the same challenges we've talked about if you're converting a gasoline engine to run exclusively

Transport committee  I don't believe it is difficult to find mechanics. Essentially, when we look at training or certifying people to work on any LPG system, whether it's the DieselFlex, the Dieselblend, or a vapour sequential injection system, or a liquid injection system, we need to start with a tr

Transport committee  I guess the increase might be for training their people to be able to handle and maintain that equipment, but I don't believe the equipment itself adds any incremental maintenance cost to the engine itself.

Transport committee  We offer two different systems. The DieselFlex system will operate on any turbo-charged diesel engine. The Dieselblend system will operate on any diesel engine that has an electronic control unit on it. The Dieselblend technology integrates with the OEM's electronic control unit

Transport committee  The cost is typically going to be in the range of $3,000 to $5,000. The main variable there is the size of the propane storage tank that you're adding to the vehicle. In both kits, the LPG is added after the air filter and prior to the turbo, so it blends in with the air, so it g

Transport committee  I would tend to agree with that. We have the CSA standards, the B149, that we work to. We also work to the Inter-provincial Gas Advisory Committee standards. We have to keep our pulse on all the different rules and regulations. So I would agree with that.

Transport committee  I suspect that it might be more about an awareness of new practices.

Transport committee  That's my understanding.