Natural Gas as the Next Best Alternative Fuel
The trend in commercial cars today is not to increase speed or power, or to make cars more flashy and head-turning. Car manufacturers are looking to make cars that primarily work on alternative fuel. Biodiesel is very popular in the market today – so do other fuel cell technologies for cars, hybrids, and electric cars. Now, the next best alternative fuel is said to be natural gas.
Compressed natural gas is seen to enjoy the same popularity and rave reviews as biodiesel and ethanol. The rise of natural gas in the market is all about achieving commercial practicality and environment friendliness. However, the production of cars running on compressed natural gas is not really the issue – the actual problem is whether there will be gas stations that can provide CNG or compressed natural gas to such vehicles.
Right now, there are only 1,600 refueling stations that sell CNG. That’s not even close to 1% of the total number of imported gasoline stations, which is at 200,000 to date. As far as the number of CNG powered cars today, there are about 130,000 all over the world, although they are mostly concentrated in the U.S. And a lot of these cars are commercial vehicles transformed into CNG powered cars.
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