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The CNG vehicles drive pretty much like normal cars. The drawback is limited range. Maybe 150 miles, which means 75 mile radius, assuming a round trip. That's enough for many trips, but not for all. Wouldn't be too much of a pain, except it's not easy to find places to refuel.
And the range is seriously impacted by load. Much more so than with gasoline-powered vehicles. If you've got more than one person in the car, have heavy equipment in the trunk, or run the air conditioner, the range drops sharply. Takes some getting used to.
Good info. Thank you.
Electric vehicles were deemed 'impossible': now the streets of London are full of them (built in Bangalore, retail for £8000 each).
And the roads are full of Toyota and Honda hybrids which are electric vehicles (at urban speeds).
In the early days of automobiles, the steamer car looked like a real competitor. To kill them off, the internal combustion engine makers had to pull some very dirty tricks (commissioning articles about car boilers exploding), the Stanley brothers were very uncommercial, and there was an outbreak of foot and mouth disease one summer (closing all the cattle and horse troughs, so no water to refill). A steamer would probably run CNG much more efficiently than an ICE car?
The key was all these alternatives were to some extent 'purpose built'.
Whereas CNG vehicles are simply converted ICE vehicles.
I wonder if by actually building from the ground up a CNG vehicle, we could get much improved performance and range?