The home appliance is available through FuelMaker and American Honda. AQMD and MSRC jointly will provide funding to FuelMaker for 100 units, available for purchase, and to American Honda for 300 units, available for lease. FuelMaker's purchasing plan targets consumers who currently drive a CNG vehicle and Honda's leasing plan targets new buyers or existing owners of a Honda Civic GX.
AQMD co-sponsored the development of the home refueling appliance through funding awarded by its Governing Board in 2001 and 2002. FuelMaker will be responsible for installation of the home refueling appliance.
Mobile sources account for more than 70 percent of the air pollution emissions in the four-county area. Natural gas vehicles are one of the cleanest vehicles available and can emit 15 times less smog-forming nitrogen oxides than a comparable gasoline vehicle. Fleet operators and some private motorists currently drive thousands of natural gas vehicles and fill them up at one the Southland's approximately 75 existing natural gas fueling stations.
For information on how to purchase the home refueling appliance, consumers can contact FuelMaker at 1-866-MY-PHILL or www.myphill.com. To lease the home refueling appliance from American Honda, consumers can visit a Honda dealership in the four-county area.
AQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The MSRC, created by state law in 1990, is supported by vehicle registration fees and funds transportation projects to reduce air pollution within the AQMD's four-county jurisdiction.