ClearFlame engine technology achieves major milestone

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A company whose technology enables semi-trucks to operate on biofuels recently celebrated a major milestone.

ClearFlame CEO BJ Johnson tells Brownfield they outfitted a Cummins 500-horsepower engine to run on ethanol and during road tests in late December the truck performed the same as if running on diesel.

“It’s a huge validation, both to all the R&D that we had done to date, and then also a massive step forward in ClearFlame from being able to go from showing data from a lab to actually driving (a truck) around on the road that we’ll be able to handoff to customers in a few months or so.”

He says ClearFlame will begin commercial testing with Midwestern truck fleets that move corn, ethanol, and DDG’s around the country.

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