Westport Fuel: Rises after Amazon orders 1,000 natgas-powered engines for U.S. fleet

Westport Fuel Systems

08/02/2021 11:04

** U.S.-listed shares in clean fuel systems maker Westport
Fuel Systems Inc  WPRT.TO   WPRT.O  up 44.6% at $12.51 premarket
    ** Amazon.com  AMZN.O  has ordered more than 1,000 truck
engines that run on compressed natural gas for U.S. fleet, the
company told Reuters on Friday  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2KB2ZH
    ** The engines, supplied by a joint venture between Cummins
Inc  CMI.N  and WPRT, are to be used for Amazon's heavy-duty
trucks that run from warehouses to distribution centers 
    ** CMI shares up ~3% in low volumes 
    ** WPRT stock up ~62% YTD, as of last close 

 (Reporting by Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru)
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