Green Options » vehicle fuel http://greenoptions.com/tag/vehicle-fuel Posts tagged 'vehicle fuel' Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:26:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Natural Gas Can Power Vehicles OR Electric Power Plants http://cleantechnica.com/2008/06/27/natural-gas-can-power-vehicles-or-electric-power-plants/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/06/27/natural-gas-can-power-vehicles-or-electric-power-plants/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:26:37 +0000 Rod Adams http://cleantechnica.com/2008/06/27/natural-gas-can-power-vehicles-or-electric-power-plants/ Clean Natural Gas bus
There is nothing really new about using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a vehicle fuel. It works well in internal combustion engines and it is possible to squeeze enough energy on board in a reasonable size tank at a reasonable pressure to provide gasoline or diesel equivalent range. There are modification kits available for a number of automobiles, there is at least one production automobile (Honda Civic GX) and there are a number of options for buses (Viking CNG BS-III, New Flyer C/L30LF, C/L35LF, C/L40LF, etc.) suitable for municipal fleets.

The new thing, the reason that talk about CNG is growing, is that natural gas now costs about half as much per unit energy as gasoline and has an even greater cost advantage over diesel fuel.

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