Costa Mesa, CA, April 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Agility Fuel Solutions, a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, announced today that it has received EPA certifications for its first alternative fuel engine.
Agility’s 488LPITM engine, an 8.0L V-8 propane engine using Agility’s patented liquid propane injection (LPI®) technology, has been granted EPA certification for 2018. The 488LPI is built on a General Motors long-block V-8 engine block, with proprietary Agility dress parts, propane injection system and controls. The 488LPI engine is well suited to school bus, propane bobtail and medium-duty trucking applications.
“We launched Agility’s Powertrain Systems business unit one year ago,” said Brad Garner, Agility’s President of Powertrain Systems business unit. “We are very proud of the work our team has done since then to bring this first engine to market and we look forward to launching the additional propane and natural gas engines in our pipeline to serve the needs of our customers.”
About Agility Fuel Solutions
Agility Fuel Solutions is a leading global provider of clean fuel solutions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. Its product offerings include natural gas, hydrogen, and battery electric energy storage and delivery systems, Type 4 composite natural gas cylinders, propane and natural gas fuel systems, and propane dispensers. Agility offers solutions for a variety of vehicle types, including Class 8 trucks, refuse trucks, transit buses, school buses, concrete mixers, and delivery trucks. Agility has been manufacturing and servicing safe and reliable clean fuel solutions for commercial vehicle fleets and OEMs for more than 20 years, logging billions of miles on the road per year.
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