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China may have 1.5 mn natural gas vehicles
by 2015
Thursday November 01, 2012 02:21:43 PM,
IANS
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Beijing: China has the
potential to become the world's largest market for natural gas
automobiles with 1.5 million vehicles expected to hit the roads by
2015, according to experts.
While attending a natural gas auto forum in southwest China,
Brenda Smith, a council member of the Asia Pacific Natural Gas
Vehicles Association, said the world was ready to embrace an era
of natural gas automobiles and China was leading the way, Xinhua
reported.
Experts at the forum predicted as many as 1.5 million vehicles
could be seen on the roads by 2015.
"Natural gas automobiles are developing fast due to easy access to
natural gas, which is cheap, safe and easy to transport," said
Smith.
China has more than one million natural gas automobiles on the
road, and about 100,000 new vehicles are put into use each year.
"China's natural gas automobiles will see robust growth in the
next few years due to the economic and environmental advantages of
natural gas," said Long Zezhi, a senior engineer in the petroleum
and natural gas field.
China's development of new-energy vehicles, mainly focuses on
electric and hybrid cars.
Long said the development of natural gas automobiles was facing
challenges from electric and hybrid vehicles.
"China has already formed a complete industrial chain. It includes
natural gas compression and liquefaction as well as its storage
and transportation, and the manufacturing of natural gas cars and
their parts and accessories," said Yao Mingde, honorary director
of the China Road Transport Association.
Lack of a natural gas filling station network, however, has
hampered development of such vehicles, Yao said, adding that
rising natural gas prices also posed challenges.
China had only about 3,000 natural gas filling stations till 2011.
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