CNG Pickup Trucks Coming Near You !

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Haoleguy

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Looks like GM and Chrysler are exploring all avenues..... GM and Chrysler Announce Compressed Natural Gas Pickup Trucks : TreeHugger . Interestingly, GMC is focused on the 2500 which means they will probably try to get the trucks into municipal depts that already have CNG vehicles. Someday we shall all have CNG and electrical hookups in our garages. 2500/3500 duty vehicle in my garage...I'm there.....Gary
 
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My neighbor sells this technology and has big markets in Asia. He has been doing this since the late 1970's.

Note the date - late 1970's.

He has a Ford Fairlane? With over 300k on it that was his prototype car. No changes to the vehicle except for the compressed gas fuel tank.

Cryogenic Fuels Inc. - Home
 
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A few days ago, I read a news article about a company that's ordered a fleet of Peterbilt CNG trucks and I didn't even know they had started making such.
 
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When I lived in Houston, there were pickup trucks that ran gasoline or CNG since the seventies. Also the diesel city buses ran on CNG or LNG. One of the problems is the range is much lower than gasoline. And the fuel tanks had to be very heavy to handle the high pressure.
 
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When I lived in Houston, there were pickup trucks that ran gasoline or CNG since the seventies. Also the diesel city buses ran on CNG or LNG. One of the problems is the range is much lower than gasoline. And the fuel tanks had to be very heavy to handle the high pressure.

And reduced power and acceleration with CNG.
 
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I saw my first CNG service station near Damascus Ar. the other day. This is in the middle of the "oil patch" in Arkansas. I did not stop and look it over, and I am not sure if it was just for company trucks or the general public. but it had a price sign, so I was thinking anyone could stop.

James K0UA
 
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Running off of LPG used to be big here on the farm trucks. My father and grandfather had LPG tanks saddled over the bed where you would typically put a toolbox. Had a switch on the dash to go back and forth between LPG or regular gas tank. I need to dig up some pictures of that old truck. It was a "Big 10" red with a white stripe. Had a big long whip antenna coming off the bed for the Motorolla two way radio. I always remember that radio was huge and had the big speaker bolted under the dash.
Anyway, I digress down memory lane. The un nerving thing of all was that they had air hoses hooked to the tank and didn't bat an eye to air up a tire with it, while smoking of course.
They still had a few LP tractors but they also used flame cultivators. Regular cultivator but had burners to shoot a flame between the rows. Once the cotton got tall enough that is how they controlled weeds in the row. Cultivator got the middles, fire got inbetween the cotton plants. Cotton has a woody stem and doesn't hurt it at all. The tractors would either have a regular house type LP tank mounted on the front saddle tank rack or sometimes they had the tank mounted on top of the cultivator toolbar.
 
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At today's prices CNG will cost you about 2.59 as compared to what current gas prices are not too bad of a savings. The downside is that I saw that dodge plans to make this a 12 grand option.

This isn't new technology. Using compressed gas to run engines has been around since the 50's. Sometimes I swear they just make it so pricey that they are hoping for it to fail and keep that dependence on oil.

Personally I'm all for NG as an alternative fuel. How nice would it be to eventually just hook up to your house and go off that system to fill your car. Probably will never happen though. Got make sure that they get there % in highway taxes.
 
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Used all of the time in Europe and South America... Hard on the engine if it isnt designed for it though.

Aaron Z
 

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