LNG's road transport potential
Long range opportunities for LNG as a road fuel may lie in the truck market
The spread of affordable small-scale liquefaction facilities is opening up new opportunities for LNG as a road fuel. While the pros and cons are broadly similar to those of CNG, LNG does have one big advantage, which is that it can hold the same amount of energy as CNG in a tank occupying about one third of the space. That is a boon for the trucking industry, whose vehicles can hold LNG tanks big enough to travel farther-useful for plying routes where the refuelling network may be patchy. In June, European manufacturer Iveco unveiled an LNG-fuelled heavy truck model with a range of up to 1,500km-the longest in the sector, the company claims-a feat made possible through a combination of large
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