Team-BHP - View Single Post - Why car cos come up with CNG models in contrast to LPG models ?

Poseidon · 29th August 2006, 19:57

With several manufacturers unveiling CNG and LPG versions of their vehicles, discourse is slowly moving away from the conventional 'petrol vs diesel' framework. These new fuels have their own performance, cost, safety, availability and maintenence characteristics.
For example:
What happens to 0-100 timings?
Is power delivery acceptable at low RPM?
Are there any tuners/boosters/safe additives for enhancing performance?
How available are these fuels across India? What are the future plans?
What's the FE-cost equation?
What are the maintenance issues - freqent gearshifts, engine overloading?
Safety issues, CNG vis-a-vis LPG?
Resale?
How do the insurance guys view all these developments?

With so much combined expertise available, I think we at T-BHP need to debate these developments in some detail.

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Poseidon BHPian Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: On the briny Posts: 72	CNG vs LPG run cars - performance, cost, safety, viability analysis With several manufacturers unveiling CNG and LPG versions of their vehicles, discourse is slowly moving away from the conventional 'petrol vs diesel' framework. These new fuels have their own performance, cost, safety, availability and maintenence characteristics. For example: What happens to 0-100 timings? Is power delivery acceptable at low RPM? Are there any tuners/boosters/safe additives for enhancing performance? How available are these fuels across India? What are the future plans? What's the FE-cost equation? What are the maintenance issues - freqent gearshifts, engine overloading? Safety issues, CNG vis-a-vis LPG? Resale? How do the insurance guys view all these developments? With so much combined expertise available, I think we at T-BHP need to debate these developments in some detail.