Extengine Looking to Become the World's Smog Fighter, Cleaning up the Nation's Highways, One Smog-Belching Diesel Vehicle at a Time

Los Angeles, CA, November 07, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Extengine is cleaning up smogy urban air quicker and cheaper than any other viable solution available for use today.  The company, based in Fullerton, CA. retrofits diesel powered trucks, buses, ships, and construction equipment with technology generally used to control emissions produced from large stationary power plants, called Selective Catalytic Reduction or better known as SCR.  SCR is now equipped on virtually all new diesel trucks being manufactured today in Europe and will most probably be used on all new 2010 model trucks and buses manufactured in the U.S.  

The big difference is that Extengine can retrofit older, much much dirtier, diesel powered vehicles and equipment that have no emission control equipment installed and are classified as gross emitters.  "By retrofitting the 13 million existing diesel engines in the US," says Phil Roberts, the CEO of Extengine, "we can very quickly and cost effectively do more to reduce smog than any one single emission control strategy, period."  "Just to be clear", he states, "Diesel engines are great engines, they can pull heavy loads, get 30-40% better fuel economy, and last 20-30 years.  I drive a diesel every day and when equipped with our retrofit system it's just as clean as my wife's Lexus, but faster!"

Controlling NOx or oxides of nitrogen, the main pre-cursor emission to smog, is not an easy task with the current after-treatment technology.  The closest CARB verified NOx control retrofit system only cuts NOx between 25-40%, but has significant penalties and is more expensive than the Extengine system.

Recently, Inc. Magazine in their Nov. '06 edition chose Extengine as one of their top 50 Green Entrepreneurial Companies.  Inc. Magazine points out how today's "green revolution" is being driven by a whole new set of entreprenuers, such as Roberts who co-founded Extengine in 2001.  In the article it mentions a new California mandate to reduce diesel emissions and that Extengine has a new system under review by EPA and CARB that will address that mandate by cutting smog emissions on virtually any older in-use diesel-powered vehicle or piece of industrial equipment.

Presently, the Extengine retrofit system is the first system in a joint EPA and CARB SCR verification process, and once completed in the near future, Roberts believes that fleet operators can actually make money by installing his system.  "There is an incredible opportunity in California for fleet operators to virtually eliminate their diesel emissions and make money doing it," Roberts says.  Extengine's management believes that NOx credits, similar to Carbon Trading Credits, will create a new mobile NOx trading market not only here in California, but in any of the 37 non-attinment areas in the US.  Once the Extengine system is verified, the value associated from each ton of NOx reduced could reach as much as $8,000 to $50,000, substantially off-setting the cost of installing the Extengine universal system.  If managed properly, diesel fleet retrofit operators could not only save money on the $6-9,000 costs of having to install mandated diesel PM filters, but make money by installing Extengine's system.  Extengine is currently soliciting diesel public and private fleet operators around the US to partner up and make diesel emissions history.

Extengine Contact: Phil Roberts, CEO,  714-774-3569

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