...oh wait...
Never mind...
Where would I be able to fill up?
Can you lay a 4X8 sheet of plywood flat in the back ? if not it is a useless P/u in my book
That's the main problem....................
make it run on methane and use these to fuel it..
as close to unicorns and skittle farts as your gonna get.
The vans tend to have more room underneath and between the frame rails for the "gas" tanks.
The article isn’t clear, so are these dual fuel trucks or CNG only?
For consumer use, dual fuel trucks would probably sell much better than CNG only trucks. CNG only are most appropriate for fleet use, as they require a special filling station be installed. For home use, you can put one in at home, but would like the ability to switch to gasoline when on the road.
I’ve see dual gasoline/propane conversions, but I’m not sure if it’s even possible for a gasoline/CNG conversion.
Drivers also face the challenge of finding places to fill up.
“$1.25 less per equivalent gallon of gasoline”
And the lack of BTU’s make up the rest. Just not as much
bang for the buck as gasoline and I mean real gas not that
10% alcohol crap.
That's hard to believe. We have a place here in our little community. You can also get a home fueling station installed which takes the natural gas coming into your home (for those of you with gas) and compresses it into your tank. A neighbor has one of those installed and says it works well.
The article doesn't say if the conversion is to a CNG only vehicle, or to a dual-fuel vehicle. If the later - definitely something I'd be interested in checking out when my current truck dies.
I knew a guy that had a pickup converted to propane back in the 80’s and he just loved it. I would think this would be a lot better.
When I worked for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, OK in the early ‘90s, you could get a CNG car from the car pool. You could fill up at the car pool, on the turnpike and at some of the refineries. I used to get one when they were available, just because it was “cool.” And, when you needed to fill up, since all the commercial facilities at the time were Phillips stations, you didn’t have to pay out of your pocket (and then get reimbursed) when you filled up with CNG. They just charged it to your business unit.
They drove pretty much the same as the gas cars. Mostly the same performance, etc. The only time I noticed anything was when you had a loaded vehicle; it couldn’t accelerate as quickly when loaded.
Heard through the company grapevine that the engines lasted a lot longer, and the oil looked “cleaner” when it was changed. All in all, I would get a gas/CNG dual use vehicle if I was in the market for a new, long lasting car/truck. (I put A LOT of miles on my vehicles...)
Looks like the break even point would be at least 200,000 miles. Doesn’t make a lot of sense. No wonder they’ve sold only 200 of ‘em.
what happens when it overturns at speed? FAE?
Some how cow farts just have to be a part of the equation here.
I know a guy with a Crown Victoria that runs on CNG. He tells me it runs so clean he NEVER changes the oil. It stayed perfectly clean after 20 thousand miles.
Our county of 3 million uses CNG for municipal buses.
That is the type of application, along with regional commercial uses, with their own filling capability which work well.
the price of NG, $1.50 less, in the article,
does not make any sense.
would anyone here like to discuss the issue
of NG price at the pump?