Uneven Prospects for Natural-Gas Vehicles  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Machine Design (Soft Copy ada dalam http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 83 no. 13 (Aug. 2010), page 23-26.
Topik: Natural Gas Vehicles; Emissions Control; Scarcity; Natural Gas; Automobile Industry

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Everyone from President Obama to T. Boone Pickens says America needs cars that are clean, economical, and run on alternative fuels. Natural-gas vehicles (NGVs) seem to fit the bill. Increasingly stringent federal and state regulations are forcing vehicle manufacturers to reduce emissions. Natural gas, however, is the cleanest-burning, commercially available transportation fuel. Yet despite the benefits, there are only about 110,000 NGVs on US roads today, according to NGVAmerica, a Washington DC-based organization dedicated to developing natural-gas and hydrogen-powered vehicles. About two-thirds of these are transit buses, and most of the rest are refuse vehicles and private fleets. Options for consumers are scarce, to say the least. Even if you get your hands on an NGV, fueling it can be a bit of an adventure. As of this past June, the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy listed only 835 CNG filling stations in the US, many not even open to the public.

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