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Natural Gas Automobile
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Natural Gas Automobile Development Group
Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., Toho Gas Co., Ltd., Saibu Gas Co., Ltd., Nissan Diesel Motor Co., Ltd., Isuzu Motors, Ltd., Autec Japan, Toyota Technocraft, Mitsubishi Motors Techno Service, Matsuda Sangyo, Unitec

Features of Equipment, Systems and Facilities
Development of a general technology which replaces conventional gasoline and diesel automobile with compressed natural gas.
With the technological development by this group, running certified by the Minister of Transport was achieved.
It is now subject to the same level of treatment as general cars, contributing to the spread of natural gas automobiles.
Adopting this technology developed, at the moment 16 models of natural gas automobiles by 7 manufacturers are running as practical cars.
Features of the natural gas automobile include small environment load because the gas emitted is clean.		 Structure of Bus Using Natural Gas
Structure of Bus Using Natural Gas

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New Energy Award 1996
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