Natural Gas Vehicles in Our Daily Life

Have you heard of a sentence that "Food is the paramount necessity of the people."? If people don't eat food, they will feel hungry, and have no strength to do their daily routine. How do you think of this idea? Do you agree? I agree with the point of view. However, here is not going to discuss the importance of food to people. Let's talk the important fuel for vehicles to run. Don't you think that the shortage of fuel for vehicles is just like we people short of food?

The commonly used fuel for vehicles are gasoline, petroleum, natural gas, etc. Here discusses the natural gas vehicle (NGV). A natural gas vehicle is an alternative fuel vehicle that uses compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a clean alternative to other fossil fuels, like automobiles, buses http://www.ecvv.com/product/3173506.html, or other public transport vehicles. Worldwide, there were 12.7 million natural gas vehicles by 2010, led by Pakistan with 2.7 million, Iran (1.95 million), Argentina (1.9 million), Brazil (1.7 million), and India (1.1 million). The Asia-Pacific region leads the world with 6.8 million NGVs, followed by Latin America with 4.2 million vehicles.

The existing gasoline-powered vehicles may be converted to allow the use of CNG or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). An increasing number of vehicles worldwide are being manufactured to run on CNG. The Honda Civic GX is the only NGV commercially available in the US market,  although Ford offers a prep package on certain models. GM do Brasil introduced the MultiPower engine in August 2004 which was capable of using CNG, alcohol and gasoline (E20-E25 blend) as fuel, and it was used in the Chevrolet Astra 2.0 model 2005, aimed at the taxi market. In 2006 the Brazilian subsidiary of FIAT introduced the Fiat Siena Tetra fuel, a four-fuel car developed under Magneti Marelli of Fiat Brazil. This automobile can run on natural gas, the CNG, 100% ethanol (E100); E20 to E25 gasoline blend, Brazil's mandatory gasoline; and pure gasoline, though no longer available in Brazil while it is used in neighboring countries.

What are the advantages of natural gas fuel? Natural gas vehicles and especially CNG tends to corrode and wear the parts of an engine less rapidly than gasoline. Thus it is quite common to find NGV with diesel-engine like mileage, such as over 500,000 miles. Emissions are cleaner, there is generally less wasted fuel, and lower emissions of carbon and lower particulate emissions per equivalent distance traveled. Compared with diesel particulate emissions, CNG is hundreds of times cleaner. There are cases of CNG being dirtier than gasoline, but only in places like India or Pakistan where illegal autos and pumps with unregulated 2 stroke motorcycle engines attached to practically anything and fake fuel are sold.

Natural gas vehicles are popular in regions or countries where natural gas is abundant, where the government chooses to price CNG lower than gasoline. Buses powered with CNG are common in the United States. NGVs can be refueled anywhere from existing natural gas lines. Some more information about natural gas buses http://www.ecvv.com/product_directory/bus.html? 

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