With the support of national policies and the requirement of energy saving and emission reduction, LNG vehicles have developed rapidly. Especially in the field of public transport, the increment is very obvious. To this end, the reporter will take a look at the purchase of LNG buses in each region in 2013.

Beijing: add 3000 LNG buses

On June 20, 2013, at the third China international liquefied natural gas conference, zheng hongpu, director of the public transportation management department of the transportation administration bureau of the Beijing municipal transportation commission, said that in order to promote the energy saving and emission reduction of public transport, Beijing will promote the renewal of public transport vehicles in advance and strive to add another 3,000 LNG buses by the end of the year.

A week later, futian signed a sales contract with Beijing bada passenger transport co., LTD for 3012 futian ouhui LNG buses. The 3,012 LNG buses signed this time will be used in Beijing's public transport system.

"In the future, Beijing will optimize the energy structure of vehicles, mainly natural gas vehicles, supplemented by diesel and hybrid vehicles, and appropriately develop dual-source trolleybuses and pure electric vehicles. Beijing is expected to add nearly 10,000 LNG vehicles." Zheng hongpu said.

So far, Beijing bus group owns more than 6,000 natural gas buses (including the 3,012 signed this time), making it the largest natural gas bus fleet in the world.

Shandong: put LNG buses in many areas

Shandong province began to use LNG buses in batch from 2011. Up to now, there are nearly 2000 LNG trucks in the whole province. Gao hongtao, deputy director of the transportation department of shandong province, believes that LNG vehicles have obvious advantages in safety, environmental protection, cost and other aspects. In the future, shandong province will promote the application of new energy vehicles, especially LNG vehicles, as a key work of transportation. To this end, all parts have responded to the call, one after another transport LNG buses.

Reporters learned from the jinan public transport department, jinan will be in the "ten arts festival" before the addition of 1,000 new buses. According to the work plan for bus city construction, the number of buses in jinan will reach 8000 within 5 years. From 2014 to 2017, jinan will purchase 800 new buses every year and build LNG standard filling stations in 6 bus yards including changqing.

In addition, Tai’an City bus company updated 90 buses and put them into four bus routes. It is understood that the updated vehicles are all LNG buses, and equipped with GPS, 3G video system. Tai’an City bus company staff introduced that after the new car put into operation, taian bus new energy and clean energy buses will reach more than 600, accounting for more than 90% of the operating vehicles.

At the same time, heze, Qingdao, liaocheng and other areas have been diesel vehicles updated to LNG models.

Guangdong: strong government support

Guangdong province's support for LNG vehicles is considerable. It is reported that in 2013, the provincial finance plan allocated 102.6 million yuan to subsidize public transport enterprises to purchase LNG buses. To this, each city hears wind and move, join the ranks that buys in succession. Guangzhou is one of them, has become the large-scale purchase LNG bus pioneer. Currently, 300 LNG buses purchased by the city have been put into operation. It is understood that this batch of LNG buses will be put into service by guangzhou treasure bus co., LTD., which will operate on 15 bus routes in luogang district. It is expected that more than 400 LNG buses will be put into operation in the whole year, accounting for about half of the total operating buses.

To tie in with this batch of LNG vehicles use, by CNPC belongs to guangdong shennan wide industry for the construction of natural gas investment co., LTD., located in treasure company observatory road station of LNG stations also will be put into use, is the first batch of the city and guangzhou luogang liquefied natural gas, LPG stations, will guarantee a steady supply of LNG bus energy.

In 2013, dongguan issued the implementation opinions on accelerating the construction of natural gas vehicle filling stations in our city and further promoting the promotion of LNG vehicles (hereinafter referred to as the opinions), requiring the construction of zhenjie filling stations to be accelerated, so as to achieve full coverage of all towns and streets of the city before the end of 2013.

According to officials of dongguan environmental protection bureau, by the end of 2013, dongguan will eliminate 22,429 yellow standard buses, including 1,523 yellow standard buses registered on January 1, 2004 and 242 yellow standard buses registered on December 31, 2005. The buses will all be replaced by LNG buses.

Dongguan chengba company also said that it is currently putting LNG buses into operation according to the construction of natural gas stations. If the natural gas station is completed, 100 LNG buses will be put into operation this year.

According to the opinions, LNG refueling stations along the bus route should be given priority in the implementation plan of "replacing oil with gas" for buses. At the same time, priority should be given to promoting the use of LNG buses in the bus routes with LNG filling stations in the surrounding areas, so as to realize the simultaneous promotion of bus "oil to gas" and LNG filling stations.

The total number of LNG buses in zhuhai has reached 858, accounting for half of the total number of buses in zhuhai, and the public transport rate is at the leading level in guangdong province. It is reported that zhuhai will plan to build more than 20 LNG refueling stations in the whole city, all of which will provide daily refueling service for 2,000 buses. At present, there are three LNG filling stations built, respectively in shangchong and jinding, and two in sanzao and heping sha.

In addition, cities such as taishan, shunde, zhongshan and huizhou in guangdong province are actively promoting the layout of LNG buses, and the use effect is very ideal.

Tianjin: 150 LNG buses will be in place by the end of the year

In 2013, tianjin binhai bus group will purchase 150 new energy buses for the opening of new routes and replacement of vehicles on key routes. According to the relevant person in charge, up to now, CNG and LNG buses account for 30% of the 21 bus routes in tianjin binhai. At present, binhai bus group has a total of 1591 vehicles, including 375 LNG new energy buses and 20 CNG new energy buses. After 150 environmentally friendly buses are put into use, it is expected to reduce pollutant emissions by nearly 11,000 tons per year.

Tianjin will also build 200 LNG filling stations during the 12th five-year plan period to meet the demand for LNG vehicles.

Zhejiang: LNG buses are gradually loaded

It used to be common to see old diesel buses smoking in the streets of zhejiang's Quzhou City district. That will no longer be the case. In January 2013, zhejiang Quzhou City launched 73 LNG buses, involving 10 bus routes, marking the beginning of the "gas era" for Quzhou City buses.

In addition, this batch of new cars also equipped with 3G monitoring, can cooperate with the public security department for public security management, but also for the driver's service quality, operational skills and other effective management, but also for the future to deal with the car disputes to provide convenience. At the same time, the bus company has set up a 3G monitoring video center, which can monitor the conditions inside the train in real time.

At the same time that Quzhou City updates LNG buses, 37 LNG buses purchased by haining city have been put into operation. It is understood that the main urban bus line 2, 3, 5 have replaced the new energy bus, and will be gradually extended to other bus lines. It is expected that by the end of 2015, capital and gas station construction will continue to increase, and the number of LNG vehicles will reach 280, accounting for 51% of the total number of buses in the city. At present, haining city has built two filling stations, one has been put into use, the other will be put into use.

In addition, yinzhou will put at least 100 LNG buses into operation this year, aiming to reach 750 LNG buses by the end of 2015, accounting for 50% of the total number of buses in the district.

It is understood that at present, there are 120 LNG buses in yinzhou, which are respectively put on urban and rural buses and some routes of Oriental buses.

Wuhan: the first batch of local LNG buses on the road

On May 20, 2013, in wuhan local production of the first new LNG liquified natural gas air conditioning bus operations will launch, hankou new village to the city of new Zhu rong's first public transport transformation highway passenger dedicated line, the line will be the first use of LNG bus routes of hubei province.

It is understood that hubei new ao yangzijiang clean energy company, which is invested by yangzijiang automobile company, is building an LNG supply chain in the province. Currently, LNG refueling stations have been built in jintan road, hankou xinrong village and xinzhouzhucheng, and 10 LNG refueling stations and skidding loading stations will be built in hubei soon.

Guiyang: 2, 227 buses run on LNG fuel

Guiyang is one of the cities with the largest amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in China and even in the world.

In the field of public transport, guiyang's achievements are also outstanding. So far, 2, 227 buses in guiyang have used LNG clean fuel. Guiyang bus company officials said that guiyang bus has completed the "oil to gas" project. A bus that travels 200 kilometres a day and carries an average of 800 passengers consumes about 75 litres of fuel. With the use of clean energy and electric hybrid electric bus, the daily fuel saving rate is calculated at 20%, which can save 15 liters of fuel and 4.5 tons of fuel per vehicle in the whole year.