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That, and the limited range between fill-ups, are the only real negatives.On the plus side, a CNG car gets about the same fuel economy as its petrol equivalent, but emits 80% less smog-forming nitrogen oxides.
Italy, Europe's CNG car capital, has 800 natural gas stations.
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CNG cars have other drawbacks that similarly plague electric vehicles including range anxiety.
Countries with lots of natural gas may have more CNG cars; others may have built enough hydrogen refilling stations to give fuel-cell cars critical mass; and so on.
When run on biomethane, the company's new CNG cars will have effective CO2 emissions of just 30g per km, less than a third of the EU's target for 2020.More immediately, the abundant new supplies of cheap natural gas coming onto the market in many countries, mostly thanks to shale-bed "fracking", have prompted much interest in running cars on CNG and heavier vehicles on LNG.
CNG cars are already normal in countries like Argentina, where they cost no more than conventional models.
Two automakers are making another run at selling compressed natural gas, or CNG, cars in the U.S., eyeing a market in commuters and efficiency-minded drivers.
"Look at how many different electric vehicles there are now, and soon there will be at least three choices of fuel cell vehicles on the market, more than CNG cars," Clements said.
They look set for rapid growth in America too: GE and Honeywell, two industrial giants, are working on cheap home-recharging kits so CNG-car owners can top up from their domestic gas supply.
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Based on the modeling results, substitution of urban railroad technologies (subway, LRT and monorail), all of passenger CNG technologies (cars, buses and minibuses), rural railroad freight technologies (electrical, gas oil and LNG freight trains) and finally, CNG and LNG heavy and light trucks with current passenger and freight vehicle technologies are suggested.
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