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European Demand for LPG Vehicles May Triple - 22nd February 2010
Phillipe Schultz, head of energy and environment planning at Renault SA, Frances second largest carmaker, says that demand for LPG vehicles in Europe may triple within the next five years and sales of new lpg cars will increase to six per cent of total vehicle sales in the European Union from about two per cent now.
Speaking at the UN climate change conference in December, he said: There is plenty of lpg and, when you look at the price, its cheap. When you look at the price over the past five years, it has been impressively flat and it will likely remain that way.
Eighty per cent of Renault cars sold in Italy last year were lpg powered, and penetration rates of the fuel in some European markets have reached 15-20 per cent.
In terms of local air quality a car or van running on LPG produces 20 times less NOx than its equivalent diesel and 120 times fewer fine particles.
