AFP - Friday, November 9, 3:38 p.m.
TOULOUSE (AFP) - The first pump natural gas for vehicles (NGV) for the general public, was inaugurated Friday in the resort a large gas hypermarket Toulouse.
"We aim to provide 10% of the French automotive market," said Henri Ducret, Director General of the Energy Division for France GDF. "Although it is now difficult to forecast, it is the ambition that we all, automakers, fuel distributors and Gaz de France (GDF), which provides natural gas for these vehicles."
Unlike LPG, liquid gas, natural gas is the city that receives the majority of French households. The only difference is the pressure from 200 to 250 bar available at the pump of the hypermarket chain Carrefour.
Gaz de France can also fit a CNG pump to individuals with a suburban residence.
The advantage for users of these hybrid vehicles also unleaded gasoline, is primarily the price. One study with the same amount of 30 euros a vehicle running on unleaded gasoline can travel 340 km, the diesel 500 km and 620 km than CNG.
Price shown in Toulouse is 0.889 euros per kilo, given that approximately 1 kg of natural gas equals one liter, and was guaranteed for six months from Friday. The brand offers the same 95 octane unleaded 1.309 euro per liter.
exist today in France 20 CNG pumps in large part for the 10,000 CNG vehicles, which supplies one third of the bus or local authorities.
In Germany, nearly 800 stations are available to the general public and 450 in Italy. Registration of CNG pumps has been awarded to France in March 2007. According to a source familiar with the matter, 300 CNG stations will be built in France by 2010.
station Toulouse addition, three more CNG pumps to the public existed since 1948 in Saint-Girons (Ariège) and years 50 to Aire-sur-Adour (Landes) and a semi-private in Montpellier.
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