{"id":425250,"date":"2021-07-09T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425250"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:51:53","slug":"truck-cos-look-at-cng-as-diesel-turns-pricey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/truck-cos-look-at-cng-as-diesel-turns-pricey\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck cos look at CNG, as diesel turns pricey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The sharp rise in diesel prices is catalysing a shift in the light and medium duty truck market \u2014 towards CNG with the gas powered small trucks selling 40% of all sales from less than 10% in 2019, driven by economic considerations. <\/p>\n<p>A light\/medium truck runs 7,000 km per month and uses up 1,000 litre of diesel now costs between Rs 90,000-Rs 95,000 on fuel bills while a CNG powered truck will need just Rs 50,000. <\/p>\n<p>Truckers and fleet operators are pushing for CNG vehicles for shorter hauls. Companies including Tata Motors, VECV, M&amp;M and others are cranking out their CNG strategy while others (Ashok Leyland and DICV) are looking at a larger alternative fuel strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The sharp rise in diesel prices is catalysing a shift in the light and medium duty truck market \u2014 towards CNG with the gas powered small trucks selling 40% of all sales from less than 10% in 2019, driven by economic considerations. A light\/medium truck runs 7,000 km per month and uses up 1,000 litre of diesel now costs between Rs 90,000-Rs 95,000 on fuel bills while a CNG powered truck will need just Rs 50,000. Truckers and fleet operators are pushing for CNG vehicles for shorter hauls. Companies including Tata Motors, VECV, M&amp;M and others are cranking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425250","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}