CNG - Natural Gas as a Fuel
Overtake with natural gas
Natural gas: low emission, highly available, and apart from that considerably more cost effective than traditional fuels. This makes compressed natural gas (CNG) a true alternative. CNG is, however, not a new invention; even the first spark-ignited engine was operated with gas. In Austria in the 1950s and 1960s, utility vehicles were predominantly powered by natural gas. There has been a continuous tendency towards using natural gas as a fuel since the beginning of the 1990s. Today more than 10 million vehicles are powered by natural gas worldwide.
In order to drive this development onward, OMV is consistently working on expanding the filling station network. There are now around 170 public natural gas filling stations, because of this crossing Austria in a natural gas vehicle (NGV) does not pose a problem. Production of natural gas vehicles has long reached maturity and vehicle manufacturers offer models in various price ranges. All of this means that nothing stands in the way of switching to natural gas powered vehicles.
The Austrian government and the individual provinces also
wish to promote natural gas as fuel. Therefore since July
2008 the "Nova-new" is supporting vehicles with minor
Co2 emission. Additional promotions are
available in some provinces. Measures for the further
development of natural gas filling stations are planned into
government policy.
