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Ever dreamed of getting behind the wheel of a highly advanced so-called "green car"?

If so, then consider this Friday your lucky day, because the 2011 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo being held at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center May 4 - 6 is offering a special test-drive event for the general public.

On Friday, May 6, the final day of the exposition, the public is invited to participate in the ACT Expo Ride and Drive event, which will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the parking lot behind the Long Beach Arena at 300 E. Ocean Blvd. During this two-hour time span, members of the Long Beach community will be able to test drive and ride in some of the cleanest, most advanced alternative fuel vehicles that are currently commercially available.

The ACT Expo is the largest showcase of clean, alternative fuel vehicles in the United States this year, according to the expo's website. Vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells and propane, as well as hybrids, will be highlighted during this year's event, expo spokeswoman Kristen Rockwell said.

Hundreds of automotive enthusiasts, community members and executives from General Motors, American Honda and Ford Motor Company, among other automakers, are expected to attend this year's three-day expo, which is being held against the backdrop of rising oil prices and $5-per-gallon gas. Featured during the expo will be what Rockwell described as "the future of transportation"
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Sounds like fun!

I pasted this article below http://www.lbpost.com/news/allison/11570

Ever dreamed of getting behind the wheel of a highly advanced so-called "green car"?

If so, then consider this Friday your lucky day, because the 2011 Alternative Clean Transportation Expo being held at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center May 4 - 6 is offering a special test-drive event for the general public.

On Friday, May 6, the final day of the exposition, the public is invited to participate in the ACT Expo Ride and Drive event, which will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the parking lot behind the Long Beach Arena at 300 E. Ocean Blvd. During this two-hour time span, members of the Long Beach community will be able to test drive and ride in some of the cleanest, most advanced alternative fuel vehicles that are currently commercially available.

The ACT Expo is the largest showcase of clean, alternative fuel vehicles in the United States this year, according to the expo's website. Vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, biofuels, hydrogen fuel cells and propane, as well as hybrids, will be highlighted during this year's event, expo spokeswoman Kristen Rockwell said.

Hundreds of automotive enthusiasts, community members and executives from General Motors, American Honda and Ford Motor Company, among other automakers, are expected to attend this year's three-day expo, which is being held against the backdrop of rising oil prices and $5-per-gallon gas. Featured during the expo will be what Rockwell described as "the future of transportation"
My company has been buying Ford engined vehicles powered by propane. The conversion is done by Roush (yes, THAT Roush). Very nice conversion, very clean running. We actually have lower maintenance costs that are attributed to the cleaner fuel (as well as lower cost to operate per mile due to less expensive fuel).

The hybrid trucks are quite prevalent. We've got half a dozen Azure Dynamics Balance Hybrids right now. They look like our standard stepvans but couple a Ford Triton engine with a hybrid drive train that includes regenerative ability from the driveshaft. I did an eight our test drive in one with one of our drivers. This is an excellent inter-city delivery vehicle. So quiet under electric impulse that you can hear pedestrians talking as they move past the stepvan. The hybrid technology has effectively doubled our in-city gas mileage with no loss of cargo capacity.

Alternate power and hybrid power are works in progress. They are not perfect, but they are the evolution of bright ideas. Go and explore, if for nothing else than to see what your fellow human beings are creating. I love the opportunity to see someone else's creative genuis, even though I can accept that it is not "the" answer. Believe me, sometime in the not-too-distant future, "the" answer will be out there and it will probably come from someone who is experimenting right now!

angela
Angela, RE: propane, it burns SO clean! Original plugs in my generator, I converted it from gas before I ever started the engine. Oil stays REALLY clean too, it seems to never get dirty, so there is less and much cleaner blow-by I am guessing. A barbecue bottle lasts about a day and a half, rather than 6-7 gallons of gas, so propane is currently cheaper to run.........
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