25/09/2008 22:09. The engine uses just the natural gas instead of gasoline to power
the vehicle and Mr. Irv Miller, group vice president for corporate
communications, explained that the project presents a lot of
potential due to the fact that the development of the CNG
infrastructure is way ahead of that of hydrogen, with a constantly
growing national supply network that now stands at about 1.8
million miles of pipeline throughout the country. Another plus is
the fact that the CNG is not dependant on imports or any upcoming
results from research on new refining methods.
Even though at this point there are only about 1,000 CNG refueling
stations across the country, with less than 500 opened to the
public, they are still a lot more numerous than the ones with
hydrogen and there are plans for building many... //
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