{"id":339508,"date":"2020-02-28T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339508"},"modified":"2020-02-28T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:08:12","slug":"indias-first-commercial-lng-bus-launched-in-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-first-commercial-lng-bus-launched-in-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first commercial LNG bus launched in Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: In a positive step towards curbing air pollution, India&#8217;s first commercial Liquified Compressed natural gas (LNG) bus was launched in Kochi.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Petronet, the bus fitted with a 180 kg cryogenic tank, the bus can travel up to 900 km in a single filling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe efficiency of LNG is 1.5 times better than diesel. While CNG costs Rs 57 per kg, LNG can be bought at Rs 40-45 per kg. This is 25-30 per cent cost-efficient when compared to diesel,\u201d said Sajeev Nambiar, senior manager, Petronet LNG Limited, Kochi.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kerala government also plans to popularise these alternative sources of fuel like LNG and CNG, said transport Minister AK Saseendran here today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: In a positive step towards curbing air pollution, India&#8217;s first commercial Liquified Compressed natural gas (LNG) bus was launched in Kochi. Created by Petronet, the bus fitted with a 180 kg cryogenic tank, the bus can travel up to 900 km in a single filling. \u201cThe efficiency of LNG is 1.5 times better than diesel. While CNG costs Rs 57 per kg, LNG can be bought at Rs 40-45 per kg. This is 25-30 per cent cost-efficient when compared to diesel,\u201d said Sajeev Nambiar, senior manager, Petronet LNG Limited, Kochi. Meanwhile, Kerala government also plans to popularise these alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}