Trucking
Future with natural gas
The
Under the motto ‘Driving the Future’, new transporters, HCVs and buses were launched at the world’s most important
transport, mobility and logistics trade fair, held at Hanover Germany on the 25 Sept - 2nd October 2014.
A
mong these were a number
that many companies are already turn-
crude oil,” says Dr Timm Kehler, man-
of natural gas-powered vehi-
ing to ‘COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS
aging director of erdgas mobil, with
cles. Manufacturers such
(CNG) and BIOMETHANE’ as fuels which
confidence.
as Iveco, MAN, Mercedes-
offer low CO2 emissions, low operating
Benz and Scania unveiled their newest developments in cooperation with
erdgas mobil. These included the presentation of the MAN Lion’s City CNG,
which was recently acclaimed ‘Bus of
the Year 2015’, and the IvecoStralis,
which is powered by LNG and has a
Euro-VI engine.
costs and proven technology.
Natural gas vehicles are now more
in demand than ever, and several
new models were launched at the
IAA Commercial Vehicles 2014 motor
show. Among these were the updated
Lion’s City CNG city bus, by MAN.
Whilst CNG (Compressed Natural Gas)
Just like its gaseous equivalent,
LNG as a fuel means low, long-term
fuel costs and lower emissions. In
addition, due to its greater density,
liquefied natural gas makes it
possible to travel around 1000
kilometres on one tank.”
The commercial vehicle sector is cur-
has already proven itself many times as
rently facing a number of challenges.
a fuel, the establishing of LNG (Liquefied
Pollutant emissions limits are becoming
Natural Gas) in Germany is imminent.
more and more stringent and operating
“LNG is the ideal solution and, alongside
LNG is already successfully used every
costs are increasing due to higher diesel
CNG, currently the only viable solution
day in the USA and in several European
prices. Therefore, it is hardly surprising
for freeing the logistics industry from
countries.
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• logistics in action • october 2014