Posted by CenTex Farmall on June 25, 2016 at 21:36:47 from (72.107.195.228):
In Reply to: new heavy trucks posted by GVSII on June 25, 2016 at 13:51:10:
They floated that idea several years ago when the price of diesel was so high. At that time the payback time for a trucking company was said to be a little over a year. However, for OTR trucks CNG will not give you enough range so they were talking about LNG, liquified in the fuel tank just like propane. The only problem is that the pressure is a couple thousand PSI. That means special equipment to fill and maintain.
Many place have been using CNG with success. The DFW airport runs a bunch of their fleet of buses and ancillary vehicles on CNG. Of course they don't go far from the refueling station. The buses had big turbo motors and the inside of the exhaust pipe was free of soot. I don't know if they were direct injection or not.
It's a chicken and egg problem whereby no one will buy if there are no refueling stations and not stations being built because there are no vehicles to service.
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