A Boost for Natural Gas as a Transport Fuel
The new CAFE fuel economy standards have been finalized, and they could actually give a boost to natural gas vehicles. The standards, which require automakers' full lineups to average 35.5 MPG by 2016, and 54.5 MPG by 2025, will allow automakers to get credits for natural gas vehicles to use toward hitting these MPG numbers. This will likely help Honda in the short term, which offers a natural gas Civic, and could help Westport Innovations see more demand from the major automakers. Ultimately, infrastructure is still the main thing holding back natural gas as a commercial transport fuel. Analyst Brendan Byrnes doesn't expect natural gas vehicles to be widely adopted by the mainstream anytime soon, but this could be a helpful step in the process.
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