Leading bus and truck maker Tata Motors has signed a deal with ATF Advanced Technologies & Fuels Canada to provide compressed natural gas (CNG) engines and fuel storage systems for Tata vehicles, according to Reuters.
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Canada’s Cummins Westport will make the engines and Dynetek Industries the CNG storage systems.
The Canadian firms will demonstrate the technology by fitting it to six Tata buses in New Delhi in January 2007, Tata Motors reportedly said in a statement on Thursday.
Reuters said the “lean-burn” CNG engines will meet stricter emission standards, and the roof-mounted cylinders are about 60% lighter than those currently in use.
About 94,000 vehicles in New Delhi and 154,000 vehicles in Mumbai run on CNG, while a smaller number use the fuel in the western state of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in the south, the report noted.
Reuters said Tata Motors has been making CNG buses since 2000 for use in New Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat and is also testing bio-diesel buses in the western city of Pune.
ATF, a not-for-profit company based in Ottawa, concentrates on making clean energy technology commercially viable. January’s demonstration forms part of a project called CNG India: Clean Energy Works developed by ATF and supported by the Canadian government, the statement said, according to the report.
