Westport Innovations (nasdaq: WPRT, tsx: WPRT) is a company that develops alternative fuel, low-emissions technologies to allow engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG), hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.[1] Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where the company was founded, Westport also has facilities in France, Sweden, Italy, China, Australia and the United States.
Westport is best known for its technology that allows the diesel engine to operate on natural gas without modifications to the engine's combustion chamber.[1]
History
In the early 1980s Philip Hill, then a University of British Columbia mechanical engineering professor, sought improvements to natural gas combustion in engines.[1] Hill's team of graduate students and research engineers focused on natural gas as a fuel in diesel engines to reduce emissions of