It is a chain of 22 thousand employees and 1.7 billion Euros in the country and made in Italy, from the technological point of view, it has no competitors in the world. Yet it is likely to fray in the silence, between the hooks of the collapse in oil prices and the explosion of fashion of the electric motors. We are talking about the field of sustainable mobility represented by Ngv Natural-gas vehicles, an association that brings together the most important Italian companies operating in ecofriendly alternative transportation fuels (natural gas, LPG, LNG, hydrogen, biofuels and dual fuels) yesterday launched Bologna a cry of alarm, at the first World’s fair in the segment “Alternative Fuels Conferences & amp; World Fair in 2016. “
” Italy is the worldwide benchmark for natural gas and LPG technologies, the first cars were born here in the thirties, and in these 80 years have enabled the development of vehicles, networks and services are now mature, ready to offer an alternative to the classic green and economical petrol and diesel. Yet we neglected if not forgotten, “says the president of Ngv Italy, Mariarosa Baroni, opening the three-day BolognaFiere on alternative fuels involving 40 exhibitors from 13 countries, including Eni, Snam, Gazprom, Fca, Iveco, Audi.
the driver of economy is more determinant of environmental awareness for the Italic consumers and the fall in the Brent well below the $ 50 a barrel, and therefore the reduction of gaps with natural gas or LPG, is having huge repercussions both on the sales of eco-friendly cars is on the manufacturers’ accounts. But this does not detract from the world record of our country: the end of 2015 circulated in Italy over 3 million gas cars, or 8% of the entire fleet (compared with 1.5% in Europe) and 43 thousand new cars with gas supply in the first quarter 2016 (Anfia data) representing 86% of all registrations of this type in Europe. Numbers far more interesting than even 840 electric cars registered along the boot in the same period, also because behind LPG and CNG is an Italian technology that is unrivaled on a global scale, with brands such as Reggio Landi Renzo which controls a third of the world market for gas engines, closely followed by Cuneo BRC gas Equipment (through the joint venture Italian-American Fuel System Solutions), the second player worldwide.
Landi Renzo, however, has closed 2015 with nearly 28 % less revenue prior year (205 million euro against 233, 80% export), and even if the embargo in Iran and the ban in Pakistan, two very promising markets for natural gas, injects optimism , “Hers is the new patent for the retroactive hybridization of any car, the dual fuel diesel-natural gas and LNG (liquid natural gas) for heavy transport we are betting,” says Corrado Storchi, public affairs director of Landirenzo. In Italy there would be a chance for the development of natural gas, because 82% of the 1,100 service stations (against 3,700 LPG) and 84% of natural gas vehicles in circulation (883mila cars against 2.1 million LPG) is concentrated in just eight regions. In Europe, where pipelines do not exist, we would rather space to develop LPG (especially prevalent in Poland and Turkey), but the sector is governed by 95% by political choices and incentives for electric cars – the phenomenon now the rage – put on track by countries such as Norway, the Netherlands and Germany have the effect of removing markets from Italian technology.
Yet, says Rita Carousels, director Assogasliquidi Federchimica, “the LPG and CNG engines guarantee high performance, long battery life, high security, pollute 20% less in terms of CO2 than conventional fuels, do not emit particulate and save at least 30% of the costs: you do not understand because they do not need to be supported like electric mobility, which it can work well only in the city. Not to mention that to power the electric motors in Italy, going back to the source, thermal power plants are coal-ranging and therefore very polluting, a contradiction. ”
Hence the high expectations of the industry for the transposition of the European Directive Dafi time to develop the market and networks for mobility with alternative fuels – all in compliance with the principle of technological neutrality, by compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquid LPG, from biofuels to electricity to hydrogen – a directive that our country must implement by 18 November 2016. “the national strategic framework on alternative fuels is ready and will arrive in mid-June at the Council of Ministers” assured John Perrella of the technical secretariat of the Mise inaugurating the fair in Bologna. Among the upcoming standards, the development of distributors only for natural gas and the requirement for new distribution systems to add gas to the two conventional fuels petrol and diesel.
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