How India\'s EV dream might be scuttling its natural-gas game plan

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How India's EV dream might be scuttling its natural-gas game plan

Bidders of CNG, CGD, PNG projects are left wondering if the electric vehicle policy would snuff out the viability of their natural gas-based projects

Subhomoy Bhattacharjee 

The average wait time for compressed natural gas (CNG) refill at a station near the Integrated Freight Complex on Delhi-Ghaziabad border used to be 15 minutes until recently. With more cars switching to CNG in and around Delhi every month, this wait time is gradually inching towards 20 minutes.

Delhi has a dense network of 391 CNG refill stations (Mumbai has only 135), but the number drops sharply as you cross the border and enter Uttar Pradesh. The next you find is good five kilometres away and the distance is unlikely to be clipped. Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad have only 91 ...

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First Published: Wed, August 07 2019. 15:39 IST