AVTOVAZ introduces dual-fuel Lada Vesta CNG
12 October 2015
AVTOVAZ introduced a dual-Fuel Lada Vesta CNG at the International Gas Forum in St. Petersburg. The Lada line of vehicles running on natural gas are developed under a memorandum of cooperation signed between Gazprom Gazomotornoe Toplivo and AVTOVAZ.
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The car has a large fuel door, accommodating both a gasoline filler pipe, and a compressed natural gas filler.
The composite gas cylinders are equipped with built-in relieve valves and quick-action safety valves. They eliminate any possibility of cylinder rupture, or uncontrollable natural gas leakage should the cylinder be damaged in a crash. The two cylinders with 253 bar rated pressure are located in the rear, under the trunk floor.
A fully filled vehicle’s distance-to-empty is 1,000 km (621 miles). As it runs out of natural gas the engine is automatically switched to gasoline. There is also a manual override switch to select either natural gas, or gasoline. It has been evaluated that running on methane reduces the costs on fuel more than threefold.
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