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What is the future for Britain’s biogas buses?

Alex Crawford
Alex Crawford
Published: April 16, 2021
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An end to diesel engines and increasing focus on zero-emission hints at the UK’s future vehicle goals. Where does that leave biogas?
On 4 July 2017 Nottingham City Transport (NCT) launched a double-decker bus powered by a spark-ignited gas engine - its first biogas bus.

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An end to diesel engines and increasing focus on zero-emission hints at the UK’s future vehicle goals. Where does that leave biogas?Biogas: A worthwhile projectFuture is electric?More needed by governmentBiogas fleet growth still plannedZemo: ‘All tools are necessary’Technology agnosticEurope loves biogas?Biogas bus take up remains conspicuously more prevalent in Europe than in Britain.Research of bus registration data in western Europe and Poland between 2012-2020 by Chatrou CME Solutions shows that compressed natural gas (CNG) buses make up 2,636 of a fleet total of 7,478 alternative driveline coaches and buses, outnumbering the 2,062 registered battery-electric vehicles and beaten only just by 2,733 hybrid vehicles.In addition to the growth of CNG take up, there has been growth of CNG engines in the intercity and even the coach segment. Of the 2,636 CNG buses registered in western Europe, 413 were in the coach and intercity segments.

That set the stage for a £42m investment programme and has seen the company acquire a fleet of 120 gas-powered buses over the last four years. Even now, NCT Engineering Director Gary Mason says that gas bus procurement isn’t going to stop any time soon.

And why not? On 17 . . .

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