The fourth annual Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Conference will be held February 25-27, 2004

at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, California.
The conference topic will be meeting tough new requirements and changing needs in the heavy-duty vehicle industry. The focus will be on real solutions and implementation.
Organized by WestStart-CALSTART and the U.S. Army’s National Automotive Center, the conference targets solutions and innovative technology.
The 2004 conference will feature experts in emissions, including California Air Resources Board Chairman Alan Lloyd, California Energy Commissioner Jim Boyd, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Advanced Technology Division Director Charles Gray. The expert will look at the latest trends and provide an up-to-the-minute review of technology for clean heavy-duty vehicles, from engine after-treatment and new fuel formulations, to advanced natural gas and hybrid drive systems, to fuel cell power systems.
“This conference has become the premier, one-stop location to learn what the leaders are doing – and developing – to build next generation clean heavy-duty trucks and buses,” said John Boesel, president & CEO of WestStart-CALSTART, North America’s leading advanced transportation organization. “While others may focus on questioning or delaying tougher standards - here you’ll learn instead what people are doing to bring clean, efficient and commercially viable trucks to market.”
This year’s agenda features experts in emissions, technologies and manufacturing, plus an exhibition of the latest truck and bus technology.
Highlights include:
--Updates from truck and engine OEMs on latest technologies
--Strategies for off-road vehicles to deal with proposed new regulations
--Briefings on hybrid, natural gas, and fuel cell technologies
--Discussions on availability of cleaner fuels and state of the infrastructure
--Reports on in-use fleet experiences with alternative fuel vehicles
Early sponsors for the 2004 conference include Mack Trucks and Engines, Mark IV, Michelin, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Trillium and the National Automotive Center.
WestStart-CALSTART is an advanced transportation technologies consortium, a fuel-neutral, participant-supported organization of more than 120 companies and agencies, dedicated to expanding and supporting a high-tech transportation industry that cleans the air, creates jobs and improves energy efficiency. Its California operating division does business as CALSTART. For more information visit www.weststart.org.