Happy Cab (Text Version)

This is a text version of the MotorWeek video segment, Happy Cab, which aired on November 26, 2011.

JOHN DAVIS—NARRATOR: Our success story this week takes us to Omaha, Nebraska, and the Happy Cab taxi company. Working with the Metropolitan Utilities District, Happy Cab has just completed building public-access compressed natural gas pumps at their I80's fuels station.

Funding from the Department of Energy through the Kansas City Regional Clean Cities coalition helped to pay for the project, which includes 50 taxis that are being converted to CNG. It's hope that private fleets will spur the development of the first alt fuel corridor in Nebraska. Happy Cab expects to convert more of their 200+ cab fleet in the future.

JOHN DAVIS—HAPPY CAB DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS: We thought it's a great idea, and we were really excited about being on the leading edge of this project here in Omaha.

JOHN DAVIS—NARRATOR: Operators will save about $210 a week in fuel costs per cab. That should pay back the CNG conversion cost within a year—a happy outcome for a Nebraska cab company doing its part to drive green.