Where are NGVs used now?
Approximately 100,000 NGVs are on U.S. roads today. NGVs have a long-established record in Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well. Italy has been using natural gas as a vehicular fuel since the 1940s, with more than 350,000 NGVs. In Canada, nearly 20,000 NGVs operate with a network of 220 public fueling stations. Argentina has 680,000 NGVs, and Russia has more than 30,000. Worldwide, nearly two million NGVs are in use, in countries now including Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Mexico, the Philippines and Indonesia. Click here for detailed statistics. Growing interest in NGVs led to the formation of the International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles in 1986, which now has more than 500 members from over 30 countries, and to the establishment in 1994 of the European Natural Gas Vehicle Association, with more than 120 members from 20 countries.
