COMMENT: So, is natural gas for CVs a trend or a fad?

In the assessment of Frost & Sullivan’s Sandeep Kar, speaking in the recent Automotive World Megatrends webinar, most executives in the commercial vehicle business ‘are contemplating whether natural gas (NG) as a fuel is really a trend or a fad’. In North America, thanks largely to the discovery and exploitation of indigenous gasfields, using fracking techniques not previously available, NG, as a much cheaper fuel than diesel, is enjoying a relative boom.