Most of those are municipal buses.
Natural gas is great for heavy duty.
There are ~66k light duty natural gas cars in the USA.
Roughly the same number as full Electric but electrics are about to leave CNG cars in the dust.
Typically CNG cars get 200 miles of range.
Less than the Model S.
They typically cost $10k more than comparable car.
My Model S cost roughly the same as a comparable Panamera, 6 Series Gran Coupe, and Mercedes CLS.
You need energy to compress natural gas to get to the pressure required for CNG cars. That is why the cost per mile to run CNG and electric is roughly the same.
And natural gas cars are slow.
Honda Civic EX 0-60 9 seconds.
Honda Civic NG 0-60 10.1 seconds .
My Model S 3.9!
Reaganez, and I mean this sincerely, no /sarc tag, bless you for being an early adopter. Technological innovation almost always starts at the luxury end of the spectrum, then trickles down to the everyday car. Without the early adopters paying the big bucks to keep the innovators afloat, we’d never progress beyond the Model T.
Every sedan PG&E owns, 90% of their pickups, and their 5T fleet is in transition.
Every US mail delivery van in California.
Approx. 30 % of county/municipal/ special district sedans.
You are off in the hobbit woods.
They can also refuel in less than 10 minutes and be on their way again. You can’t.