Business Line: Tatas Eye LNG as Fuel of the Future for CVs

Tata Motors is betting big on the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel its buses and trucks.

According to AK Jindal, Head – Engineering (Commercial Vehicles), the company has carried out a preliminary evaluation exercise with Indian Oil Corporation. LNG terminals are already part of the Gujarat landscape with Kochi and Mangalore scheduled to follow suit.

For industrial consumers, LNG stations are being set up along the west coast and extending this to include dispensing stations would be quite viable. “If a truck has to travel from Gujarat to Mangalore and further to Kochi, filling gas will not be a problem,” Jindal says. MORE