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Looks like CNG is one of the best alternative energy. Pakistan really need to push for it.

The News, Pakistan reported:

Federal Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi Tuesday stressed the need for expediting process of introducing CNG buses in nine mega cities of the country.

He stated this while chairing a meeting of the steering committee to finalise recommendations for the operation of CNG buses in nine mega cities of Pakistan.

During the meeting, the federal minister emphasised the need to expedite the recommendations for operation of CNG buses, so that the people may get environment friendly and affordable conveyance at the earliest. According to a spokesman of the ministry, the meeting was given a detail presentation about the introduction of CNG buses by the Managing Director ENERCON Faridullah Khan.

Why?

Because it caused the explosion in Bangkok last week. These imported cylinders are in jeapordy. However, the manufacturer are willing to give a free replacement.

The company would offer free replacement CNG kits to any customers who had purchased the units, he added.

The explosion took place on Friday at a PTT service station in Samut Prakan, where a privately owned bus was being refuelled. A pump attendant was injured and seven vehicles damaged.

Most of the 145-litre-cylinders with serial numbers from 54187 to 545562 had been installed in trucks and buses and a total of 90 cylinders were in the process of being installed in garages.

Read Bangkok Post for more information.

Have you read Harian Metro about this incident? See the above picture? Scary eh?

Read the excerpt:

CHERAS: Pelanggan sebuah pam minyak yang sedang mengisi petrol ke dalam kenderaan masing-masing lari bertempiaran apabila mendengar bunyi letupan dari pam gas asli kenderaan (NGV) bersebelahan.

Difahamkan letupan yang berlaku pada jam 10.40 malam tadi di sebuah stesen minyak di Batu 5 Jalan Cheras berhampiran pusat beli-belah Leisure Mall di sini, berpunca daripada tong gas memasak yang disimpan dalam but sebuah kenderaan yang mengisi NGV di stesen itu.

Menurut pemilik kenderaan itu yang hanya ingin dikenali sebagai Yong, 45, letupan itu berlaku selepas lima minit dia mula mengisi tangki NGV di belakang keretanya sebelum dikejutkan dengan dentuman kuat yang meranapkan belakang kenderaan jenis Nissan itu.

“Saya bernasib baik, ketika kejadian saya berada di hadapan jika tidak pasti saya akan parah akibat serpihan besi daripada letupan kuat itu.

“Saya tergamam dan terpaksa meniarap, risau jika berlaku letupan susulan bagaimanapun bangun beberapa minit kemudian selepas mendapati keadaan selamat,” katanya ketika ditemui.

Yong mendakwa dia terpaksa menyimpan tong gas memasak terbabit dalam but kenderaannya apabila tidak sempat untuk menghantarnya pulang ke rumah selepas dia menukarnya di kedai pada sebelah pagi.

Dia yang dalam kebingungan dengan kejadian itu kemudian menghubungi isteri bagi memaklumkan kejadian yang hampir meragut nyawanya serta meranapkan kereta yang baru tiga bulan menggunakan sistem NGV itu.

Sementara itu, pekerja stesen minyak terbabit yang hanya ingin dikenali sebagai Ali, ketika kejadian dia bertugas di kaunter apabila tiba-tiba mendengar letupan kuat dan gegaran.

Berikutan kejadian itu, perkhidmatan di stesen minyak berkenaan dihentikan seketika manakala khidmat untuk mengisi NGV ditangguh sehingga pemeriksaan keselamatan selesai dijalankan.

Be careful, always!

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Thailand: Ssangyong becomes first OEM to offer factory-fitted LPG models

By Isabella Badenoch
6 August, 2008
Source: Automotive World

Due to high fuel prices, many Thai consumers have begun retro-fitting their cars to run on LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) or CNG (compressed natural gas), or have begun using ethanol-mixed fuels like E80 and E85 in vehicles.

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If you’re a member of www.cngchat.com, you may came across this post titled ‘CNG Toyotas may or may not be coming’. A forummer called Dmitry emailed Toyota and received a reply via a phone call from Toyota representatives saying:

“Thank you for your letter. We’ve received a lot of CNG inquiries lately. We’ll forward your letter to the management right away. But we do not guarantee anything”

Below is the original letter from Dmitry:

 July 8, 2008

Dear Toyota representative,

I have no illusions regarding this letter, but at least I hope you will read it.

If you are in US, you know what the gas prices are. According to New York Times this will put 10 million vehicles off the roads within the next 3 years! I would like to suggest Toyota to start selling it’s alternative fuel models, namely Crown Comfort (LPG) and Probox (CNG) in US.

To get more info about either one of these fuels, please visit www.cngchat.com. But first let me remind you that Honda is already selling CNG Civic GX to the public, and is hugely successful, especially in places like California and Utah, where CNG is easily accessible and cheap. Why is my favorite Toyota hesitating?

The commercial sector will be the first to pick up on these new models. Crown Comfort taxis are already the number one taxi vehicle elsewhere but the US. What about small scale delivery – Probox could fit right in. You won’t find any reasonable explanation why the country with the most number of small businesses in the world is missing on these 3 world wonders.

By 3rd world wonder I mean Hiace van, and I have already written to Toyota about that two times, and every time I got a generic response. Something along the lines of: “Thank you for the letter, we will file it”. So I will stop here, because obviously it’s a waste of time and paper. But in my heart I’ll keep hoping, that one day I’ll have LPG Crown Comfort for my owner operator taxi, and CNG Probox for my wife.

Have a nice day!

Think that you don’t really get real and useful information? Interact with others, all around the world. Discuss about what’s the pros and cons, tips and best practice using CNG / NGV.

Not just that, you can also enter the global marketplace by doing business globally.

Below are some of the CNG Forum / NGV Forum list:

CNG Forum / NGV Forum

NGVINSTALLER.COM– www.ngvinstaller.com/forum (MALAYSIA)

NGVCOMMUNITY.COM – www.ngvcommunity.com/forum/ (MALAYSIA)

CNGFORUM.COM – www.cngforum.com

CNGCHAT.COM – www.cngchat.com/forum/

CNG-FORUM.COM – www.cng-forum.com/wbb/

NGVFORUM.ORG – www.ngvforum.org

Motor Trader, Diesel / Alternative Fuels Talk – http://www.motortrader.com.my/asp/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=55 (MALAYSIA)

NGV.COM.MY – www.ngv.com.my (MALAYSIA)

CNGOUTFITTERS.COM – www.cngoutfitters.com/forum/

PAKCNG.COM – www.pakcng.com (PAKISTAN)

Another Alternative Fuels (Hybrid Car, Water Fuel, Hydrogen Fuel, HHO)

GREENHYBRID.COM – www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/

HHOFORUMS.COM – www.hhoforums.com

HYDROGENGENERATOR.CC – www.hydrogengenerator.cc

By Clark Howard, Counsumer Advocate on CNN

CNN REPORT:

(Note ironic news story after this report at the end)

Natural gas has been used as internal combustion motor fuel for years. The technology is mature and proven and the disrtibution infrastructure is in place. It has never been utilized in a significant way for cars. This could be easily done.

Natural gas is distributed to millions of homes. Most any car can be converted to use it. All that would be needed at the home is a compressor tapped into the gas line (on a separate meter to tax it, of course), a safe, idiot-proof coupliing and hose, and the car modification. I guesstimate that all of this would cost less than $5000 for most cars. Gas companies would have incentive to subsidize conversion costs, as they have other gas appliances for years.

If cars were manufactured new this way, the cost increase would be negligible.

Other advantages are: near- zero retail distribution costs, a stable market for natural gas that would stimulate drilling and moderate weather-induced price swings, and very low emissions. Demand pressure would be taken off of oil. NG cars would have much more power and range than electrics without all the unproven technology and high cost of hydrogen fuel cells and environmental disposal problems of discarded batteries.

After launching this website which particularly only to cater Malaysian, there’s a lot of queries from Singaporean about NGV. In Singapore, it’s being called CNG.

Most of them are looking for an NGV station in Johore, which means Singaporeans will get the same subsidy like the rest of Malaysians. Heard that the CNG car sales in Singapore is booming. Good business and definitely Singapore taxi will use it, just like Malaysian taxi.

Anybody can share NGV/CNG installer in Singapore?

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