GPCCP showcases AFV’s at Earth Fest
To celebrate Earth Day 2011, the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program and supporting-member AmeriGreen exhibited alternative fuel vehicles at Temple University’s Earth Fest, an annual festival showcasing all things green. With a Roush propane-powered pickup truck and a CNG van owned by Temple on display, we showed off AFV’s that are in-use and on the road right now.
The event brought thousands of people from southeastern Pennsylvania. Even though some of the younger kids couldn’t get interested by our clean-burning vehicles, AmeriGreen’s jars of biodiesel and soybeans got everyone’s attention. Check out the photos below!
 Amerigreen biofuels on display |
 Kids learning about clean fuel options |
 Showcasing the propane pickup |
 Having fun in Roush's truck |
GPCCP hosts Propel with Propane workshop
In February 2011, the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program hosted “Propel with Propane,” an interactive workshop about propane’s potential as a cleaner, cheaper, domestically-produced fuel for trucks and cars. The workshop, held at the Port of Philadelphia, featured presentations from the Propane Education Research Council, Ferrell Gas, Roush Clean Tech, and AmeriGas (you can find the presentations in our Media page).
After the soup-to-nuts presentations that covered everything from how propane is produced to what cars and trucks already run on propane, the attendees got a chance to test drive some propane vehicles, including our favorite: the country’s first propane-powered Dodge Charger. Check out photos from the awesome event below.
 Presentations at the workshop |
 Propane hybrid Dodge Charger |
 Propane-powered transit van |
GPCCP builds an E-85 corridor across Pennsylvania
With funding from the PA Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Department of Energy, the Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program helped build a corridor of E-85 fueling stations along I-76 from State College to Philadelphia. The corridor consists of 19 refueling stations in SHEETZ, Worley & Obetz, and Dileo’s locations. Each station sells domestically-produced E-85, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, supplied by our stakeholders AmeriGreen and Shipley Energy. Since construction, over 1 million gallons of E-85 have been sold along the corridor.
If you drive a flex-fuel vehicle that can use E-85, you can use the AFDC Alternative Fuel Station Locator to find an E-85 station along our corridor.