Cummins Westport Helps the Games Go Green

Publish Date: October 2004

Environmental sustainability is one of the pillars of the modern Olympic Games, and Vancouver-based Cummins Westport is helping host cities offer the cleanest transportation possible.

Cummins Westport develops and manufactures low-emission natural gas engines that have been successfully used in transit buses. The company won its first Olympic contract when it provided natural gas buses to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games.

But it is the 2008 Games in Beijing that have represented the greatest opportunity for Cummins Westport to showcase its technology to the world. Beijing is promoting the “Green Games,” and converting its transit buses to alternative fuels (such as natural gas) is a key strategy in the city's efforts to reduce emissions.

Cummins Westport's innovative technology is currently driving 2,000 of Beijing's buses and the company anticipates it will play a role in the expected conversion of 90 percent of the city's 18,000 buses to low emissions technology.

“The Olympics are a great opportunity to showcase our technology to the world, ” says Communications Manager Moira Chicilo. “As a company, it's beneficial for us to be attached to an event that has sustainability as one of its key pillars.”

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