27.5.2019. For some time the SEAT offers a wide model range of vehicles that run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The Spanish car brand is the leading manufacturer for drives with CNG and pushing your TGI models of vehicles as a more environmentally friendly and cost – effective Alternative to conventional petrol and diesel.
However, The reservations about CNG as an alternative fuel to hold stubbornly to wrong! Seven facts show clearly and at-a-glance: CNG compared to conventional drive techniques have a clear advantage.
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- 1. CNG is environment-friendly
- 2. CNG is safe and reliable
- 3. CNG provides identical driving feel and performance
- 4. CNG is significantly cheaper
- 5. CNG is maintenance-friendly
- 6. CNG is more environmentally friendly than petrol or Diesel
- 7. CNG is widely available
1. CNG is environment-friendly
CNG-powered engines emit compared to other internal combustion engines up to 25 percent less CO2 and up to 95 percent less nitrogen oxides (NOx). In addition, be initiated in a direct comparison, hardly any soot particles out.
2. CNG is safe and reliable
CNG is – contrary to some unfounded fear – a sure thing. In the SEAT CNG models, built-in gas tanks are constructed to the highest industry standards are produced and certified. They are so, just like the TGI-fuel pumps, fitted with a safety valve, in the highly unlikely event of a technical problem ensures that the Gas is discharged in a controlled manner to the outside air.
All of the components of the gas tanks are designed for extreme conditions to withstand. So there is in the Tank in everyday life, a pressure of about 200 to a maximum of a bar, is admitted to he with up to 600 bar, however, for the triple burden. That winter freeze-CNG can harm, is also a myth: According to the laws of physics, the outside temperature should case, below -160 degrees Celsius so that the CNG is liquefied in the Tank.
3. CNG provides identical driving feel and performance
In terms of performance and driving dynamics, and our CNG are-models, siblings, their purely gasoline-powered Model in nothing. So you have to look very closely to detect any difference. In the instrument cluster will be displayed when the vehicle is driven in the CNG mode. Separate fuel gauges for the gas tanks and the gasoline reserve tank are available. The CNG Tank is empty, the car automatically on petrol as a reserve fuel without the driver noticing it.
4. CNG is significantly cheaper
CNG vehicles are favored for tax purposes and in the same price category such as Diesel and gasoline vehicles sold. After the purchase, the operating costs are particularly low: The main reason is that CNG burns due to its higher energy content more efficiently than conventional fuels. Since CNG is not a petroleum derivative, it remains, moreover, unpredictable variations in Oil prices and protected. In practice, savings of 30 percent compared to Diesel and 55 percent compared to gasoline operation.
5. CNG is maintenance-friendly
In their mechanical function CNG vehicles do not differ from conventionally powered models. So, spark plugs or filters must not be replaced as in the case of a gasoline engine, as is sometimes mistakenly claimed. The only difference is that the tightness of the gas installation must be tested before each of the TÜV-examination. The bottom line is that CNG vehicles as compared to Plug vehicles-in – hybrid –much lower operating cost, because they get by with a single Motor designed to both fuel types.
6. CNG is more environmentally friendly than petrol or Diesel
The international abbreviation CNG stands for “Compressed Natural Gas” and is under strong pressure (about 200 bar) compressed natural gas, which is specially prepared for the Fuelling of cars and offers. It contains only small amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide – which ensures that it burns as clean as possible. In contrast to oil, natural gas must be after the promotion, not refurbished.
In addition, CNG is also known as a renewable energy source available – on the one hand, in the Form of biological and organic waste derived Bio-methane, which is mixed-up today at the gas station in different proportions beige or as your own fuel is offered. On the other hand, synthetic methane, which is used in the course of the “Power-to-Gas”process, in the excess green electricity to gas production is a full-fledged Alternative – and even a completely climate-neutral. Because the driving is only so much CO2ausgestoßen operation, as previously in the case of the production of this “green” fuel, through photosynthesis, into oxygen has been converted.
7. CNG is widely available
Already today, the next CNG filling station is not-unlike, for instance, when hydrogen far. Currently, there are around 900 natural gas filling stations in the entire Federal territory. Together with industry partners from the areas of production, supply and service-station operation has set itself a SEAT together with the Volkswagen group is the target, by the year 2025, the German CNG filling station network of around 2,000 stations to expand.
SEAT CNG model range (Foto: SEAT)
