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• July 2008: NPR has released audio which appeared on its segment "All Sounds Considered" about the sound and process of welding by our consultant Andre Shoumatoff.  Click here to hear the audio clip.

• July 2008:  Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff has been published in an Op-Ed in the Salt Lake City tribune about biodiesel and "biofuels" minformation campaigns.  Click here to read the Op-Ed.  

• June/July 2008:  Biodiesel Motor Project's internet marketing arm Shoumatoff Media develops several more web site projects.  Plumb, Level Square, Inc., a green builder in the Northern Utah area. Tennessee Diesel Conversions, a Cummins dealer in Tennessee. Lenz Sport, a boutique mountain bike frame manufacturer in Colorado.  And 4x4 Labs, a Toyota modification shop in Northern California that also specializes in diesel conversions.

• June 2008:  Biodiesel Motor Projects acquires The Oil and Water Project as a sponsorship and marketing development client. 

• April 2008: Biodiesel Motor Projects, our Eco4WD project, and our associate Bill Hatlieb, who drives several environmentally friendly vehicles using diesel technology that were co-developed by Biodiesel Motor Projects, were featured on the front of the business section of The Park Record, the Park City Utah newspaper.

• April 2008: Biodiesel Motor Projects has contributed again to two seperate articles in Vanity Fair's annual May "green" issue releted to global warming, automotive technology, and alternative fuels.

• April 2008: Our internet marketing arm, Shoumatoff Media, has completed the web site for the Mountain Bike Suspension Fork Manufacturer White Brother Cycling.

• March 2008: Biodiesel Motor Projects has signed up to sponsor the Desert Rocks Music Festival featuring the Derek Trucks band and other notables in southern Utah in May.  Biodiesel Motor Projects is also supporting some aspects of the festival with biodiesel and vegetable oil fuels.

• March 2008: Related to a campaign that was coordinated several years ago by our lead consultant, we have put up an article about some of the land use conflicts in Moab from 2005 that appeared in the Moab Times.  Click here for the article

• February 2008:Shoumatoff Media, our internet marketing arm, has been hired to develop the new web site for White Brothers, the mountain bike suspension fork manufacturer.  The web site should be completed by March 2008 and look for a link shortly.

• January 2008: Our lead consultant has completed the Tread Lightly! Tread Trainer program, to implement and teach others about low impact off-road use. 

• January 2008: Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff has been hired for local press for  Fields of Fuel, a documentary about biodiesel premiering at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.  This film won the festival's audience award.  Most notably, Biodiesel Motor Projects was able to get the film maker on Radio West, a national public radio show broadcast on XM public radio and throughout Utah.

• January 2008: Biodiesel MotorSports has changed our name to Biodiesel Motor Projects to accommodate a wider range of environmentally friendly projects.  Our web site and other materials have been updated.

• December 2007:  Biodiesel Motor Projects' consultant Andre Shoumatoff supplies specific information to Vanity Fair Magazine for an upcoming article about global warming.

• December 2007: Andre Shoumatoff, our lead consultant, has been awarded a "Certificate of Appreciation" by Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr "In Recognition for you Efforts to Define Workable Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gases while Sustaining Utah's Vibrant Economy and Quality of Life through the Governor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change."

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• November 2007: Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff was quoted extensively in an article about diesel engine conversions into Toyota Land Cruisers for environmentally friendly purposes, in Overland Journal magazine.

• October 2007: Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff appeared on NPR's national afternoon news show All Things Considered, in a segment called "All Sounds Considered" about the process and sound of welding.

• August 2007: Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff wrote the "diesel news" section for the fall issue of the new off-road expedition magazine Overland Journal. 

• July 2007: The Turbinator, world's fastest wheel powered vehicle that biodiesel motor projects is doing PR and sponsorship acquisition assistance for, has been mentioned in the National Biodiesel Board's annual monthly online newsletter that is dispatched to thousands of the country's top biodiesel leaders.  Click here to see the newsletter.    Click here for more info on the Turbinator.

• June 2007: Our lead consultant Andre Shoumatoff has been asked to join two committees to advise Governor Jon M. Huntsman of Utah and his Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on policy methods to combat global warming & climate change, and Governor Huntsman's Renewable Energy Initiative.  Shoumatoff has joined the transportation/land use and agriculture/forestry committees at to primarily provide information about biodiesel and auto efficiency components.

• May 2007:  Vanity Fair Magazine has printed information about biodiesel and clean diesel technology that was solicited from our lead consultant.  The information was printed in an article in their May 2007 Green Issue.

• May 2007: Outside Magazine prints an article about Moab Utah as an "up and coming environmentally friendly city."  Outside printed information about biodiesel and other environmental initiatives information supplied by our lead consultant, Andre Shoumatoff.

• April 2007:  The build-up blog of our ECO 4WD #2 project on the Toyota Land Cruiser enthusiast web site ih8mud.com has gained massive popularity.  This single group of pages has received over 25,000 visitors.  Update July 2008: Nearly 50,000 visitors.

• April 2007:4BTswaps.com, a website owned by Biodiesel Motor Projects about installation of diesel engines into various vehicles, has reached over  6000 guests a month, 1000 members, 100 paid members and nearly 10 paid member businesses in just 3 short months since its launch in January 2007.

• March 2007:Biodiesel Motor Projects has made the last update to CISAutoWeb, the foremost web site about diesel engine swaps.  This site still receives nearly 100,000 visitors a year and shows up in high in Google rankings for info about diesel conversions.  Because of its popularity, despite slightly outdated information, Biodiesel Motor Projects has decided to keep the site up indefinitely.

• February 2006: Proffitt's Cruisers, the famous Toyota Land Cruiser restoration shop and modification company, reports that internet marketing initiatives developed by Andre Shoumatoff of Biodiesel Motor Projects and our sister company, Shoumatoff Media, have quadrupled overall sales of the business as of 2006. Biodiesel Motor Projects was also able to develop nearly 50% of their business for about two years by creating a specific niche market for them, diesel engine conversions. Proffitt's Cruisers has also now done projects from several celebrities, including Ralph Lauren and Josh Bernstein.

• December 2006:   Following the unprecedented (and borderline unmanageable) growth of our yahoo group about diesel engine swaps, Biodiesel Motor Projects has launched 4BTswaps.com online forums.

• November 2006:Biodiesel Motor Projects has moved its fabrication and custom vehicle building shop to a new, larger facility.  Following an environmental theme, the new facility is located in the recycling center in Heber City, Utah.  Biodiesel Motor Projects will still maintain its office in Park City Utah, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics and the Sundance Film Festival.

• Summer 2006: Biodiesel Motor Projects has supplied two matching orange "biodiesel" Mercedes Benz 300Ds to Warner Brothers for their film Unaccompanied Minors. Biodiesel Motor Projects was asked to make them look "just barely legal" and one is to be blown up.