Project:

It is the conversion of a diesel engine vehicle into one using a technology based on a controlled diesel + methane fuel system that allows the transport professional to significantly reduce emissions.

• The engine does not undergo invasive transformations: it continues to operate as a normal Diesel cycle
• Improved travel autonomy
• The % of gas introduced into the engine is adapted to the individual vehicle in real working conditions with the aim of obtaining optimal performance
• The same KIT can work indifferently with both Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), only the digitalization of the gas management software will change
• The technical feasibility and cost effectiveness of installing the dual fuel kit has already been demonstrated on vehicle prototypes and test bench.

1. To implement a wider scale demonstration project by installing the kit, over two years, on 50 HDV vehicles (either buses and trucks), in order to validate the dual-fuel technology on real-scale road tests.

2. To analyse and prove the environmental benefits (through LCA, LCC, Integrated Assessment

Modelling) and the social and economic advantages for HDV owners who retrofit their vehicle.

3. To communicate the project results to a wide target audience, in order to raise awareness of all

interested end-users and policy makers.

4. To involve, by dedicated round-tables, all value chain stakeholders and especially policy makers who have the crucial role to set-up incentives schemes for HDVs retrofitting programmes to support the diffusion of dual-fuel technology in the EU. Regional and national authorities, as well as relevant stakeholder and customers, will be involved through the cooperation of the Lombardy technology clusters for mobility (CLM), Energy (LE2C) and Green Chemistry (LGCA), from which we have received already explicit letters of endorsement.