Chevron New Zealand has announced the launch of Caltex with Go Clear, a new diesel emission fluid to provide emissions benefits to commercial truck and diesel customers. Caltex with Go Clear is now available from the Caltex Bombay Diesel Stop, and more sites are on schedule to open throughout 2013.
Caltex with Go Clear is manufactured in partnership with local companies Ballance Agri-nutrients and Orica, whose Go Clear solution is a specialised NZ made Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), designed to meet increasing requirements of the latest generation of heavy diesel trucks and buses that use Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) for controlling emissions and increasing fuel efficiency.
Go Clear is injected into the exhaust system, controlled by an on-board computer from a separate on-board tank with the vehicle under load.
Orica Go Clear market manager Marcus Butterfield says “The technology virtually eliminates nitrogen oxides, through reducing pollutant emissions into the atmosphere and ensuring that vehicles meet stringent Euro IV and Euro V emission requirements”.
Butterfield also told DIESELtalk that a national network was now being built, with recent Go Clear openings at the top of the South Island in partnership with Nelson Petroleum, where the strategically important Picton along with Wakefield, Richmond and Port Nelson are operating.
Meanwhile at the southern end of the country, two new sites at Alma (just south of Oamaru) and Gore have opened, in collaboration with McKeown Group.
Ken McKeown, of McKeown Group, says that “two more sites are planned to open later this year”.
With increasing amounts of regulation and compliance around diesel vehicle emissions coming, a competitive market in SCR and DEF products is developing in New Zealand.
