Member Spotlight – Baton Rouge Community College

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) is pleased to welcome our newest National Training Center member: Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC). BRCC’s Automotive Technology Program, part of the Transportation Technology Division, is housed in an 84,000-sqaure-foot, state-of-the-art facility for teaching automotive and diesel heavy truck technology. The program features…

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Let’s Clear the Air—Natural Gas Vehicles for America

In the coming months, the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) will highlight resources from alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicle industry organizations in the Let’s Clear the Air column. These resources provide fuel-specific information that may be useful to automotive technicians, automotive students, and others who are interested in…

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Industry Headlines Electric Smart Cars in the USA In the coming years, those cute Smart cars you see will increasingly be electric vehicles. Daimler—Smart’s parent company—announced that it will be moving away from internal combustion engine vehicles in the U.S. and Canada and transitioning to all-electric vehicles instead. “To be…

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