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Originally Posted by iwantchixx
The reason for that is because standard residential natural gas lines just do not have the pressure and volume per hour that industrial applications do. Fueling stations would most likely have industrial grade fuel pressures and line sizes to accomodate faster refueling.
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Yeah don't think this guy will like to stand for 8 hours filling his Mercedes NGT
A look at current fuel prices in Germany quickly shows how the E 200 NGT enables drivers to save money. With a tank full of 18 kilograms of CNG, the vehicle can travel up to 300 kilometers, depending on the style of driving. At a price of about 71 cents per kilogram of CNG, the total fuel cost amounts to 12.81 euros. If the same distance were traveled with a car using premium gasoline, however, the fuel costs would be about two-and-a-half times as much (32.40 euros), assuming an average consumption of nine liters per 100 kilometers and a price of 1.20 euros per liter.
In other countries, the results of this kind of comparison would vary, of course, depending on the prices for the two types of fuel and the general price situation on the global market. But according to conservative estimates made by the engineers at Mercedes-Benz, the bivalent model?s higher sales price in comparison to an E 200 Kompressor with automatic transmission would be offset after just 36,000 kilometers. For cab drivers and others who drive long distances, the E 200 NGT could therefore pay off very quickly.
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/dccom...-0-0-0,00.html