No Surprise

This morning, as a follow-up to the story on NGV, a bus was filling its tank at a service station in Thailand and KABOOM!
 
Police say that the tank did not meet standards for holding NGV. No one was killed, but one worker was injured and a few vehicles sustained damage.
 
This is a serious issue that [...]

Getting a Bang Out of NGV

Warnings in the newspapers in Thailand about the hazards of NGV tanks have a lot of people thinking twice about converting their vehicles.
 
The fact is, there are hundreds of qualified mechanics who can convert a gas powered vehicle to a Natural Gas Vehicle in Thaialnd, but there are a couple of caveats to this. One [...]

Bad Press for Volvo

Chiang Mai is in the north central area of Thailand. Not to blame Volvo, although headlines make it look as though it’s Volvo’s fault.
 
Alright, you’re asking, what is he talking about?
 
Here’s just one of the headlines; “Volvo with LPG explodes”
 
If you were to read deeper into the article you would find that a man purchased [...]

Protests and Alternative Fuel Update

In the Kingdom of Thailand, the protests by the People’s Alliance for Democracy continue.
 
They want to be heard, so they are appealing a Civil Court injunction that has stopped them from using megaphones, loudspeakers and other forms of amplification at its demonstrations which are staged during school hours.
 
The P.A.D. also wants to continue to be [...]

Bangkok Has Its Eye on the Green

Representatives from Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, and India will embark on a journey to Thailand next week, as Bangkok hosts an international forum on climate change.
 
One year ago, the Bangkok Green Agenda was implemented and it will be part of the climate change two-day forum.
 
Representatives from more than [...]