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Pike Research forecasts annual global sales of light-duty natural gas vehicles to reach 3.2M in 2019

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The global market for light-duty (LD) natural gas vehicles (NGVs)—including passenger cars, light-duty trucks and commercial vehicles—will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2% Light-duty NGVs typically run on compressed natural gas (CNG) because the tanks. larger than the fleet market.

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Navigant forecasts global natural gas fleet of 34.9M by 2020

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Light duty vehicles (LDVs) account for almost 95% of NGVs on roads today, but trucks and buses are growing at a faster rate and are anticipated to account for 9% of the total fleet by 2020. Italy and Ukraine, the largest markets, are slowest growing (3% and 4% CAGR, respectively) due to their relative maturity.

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Natural Gas Vehicles Use Almost 1% of Natural Gas Sold in Europe

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NGVA Europe puts the total number of natural-gas fueled vehicles (light-, medium-, and heavy-duty) at 1,039,325, with light duty cars and commercial vehicles accounting for 76% (793,857). NGVA estimates that cars account for 36.2% of the natural gas fuel use (1.7 billion Nm 3 ).

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Ukrainian Military Use High-powered E-Bikes to Combat Russian Invaders

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Mobility is critical in combat scenarios, such as what has been going on in Ukraine for the past few months. In Ukraine’s case achieving a strategic goal is protecting its territory from invasion. Now we have received permission from the command and publish photos where and what for our bikes are used.”

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Commercial Satellites Are National Security’s Next Frontier

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intelligence, announced to the world “we have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days.” intelligence on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On February 18, President Biden , citing U.S. In the months leading up to the invasion in late February, the U.S.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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passenger-vehicle fleet by 2050—some 350 million vehicles. passenger-vehicle fleet over the period between 2015 and 2050. fleet of light vehicles. We then systematically increased the share of EVs among new vehicle sales until the cumulative fleet emissions fell within the budget.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. I finally got hold of reported total bus fleets and bus replacement rates in Europe. E-buses were deployed.

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