My cng Toyota Camry holds 11.5 gallons and I get 240 to 270 mile range depending how you drive and the quality of the pressure fill. I get 28 mpg overall @ 75mph on the freeway and when I fill up on empty and I usually am filling up 9 to 9.5 gallons
With CNG since It's gas and not liquid and works on pressure you will never fill up the whole 11 gallons or use the whole 11 gallons. 11 gallons liquid you use the whole tank. Natural gas the last 2 gallons of volume in the tank does not have enough pressure to run the car.
The guy you talked to at honda is wrong. I also have a honda.
The honda holds 8 gallons, but the most you will fill up is about 6.5 gallons. I get between 35 and 38 MPG in my 2001 civic about 220 miles on a full tank.
The newer honda civic08's are getting 40 mpg highway
Now with either car if you fill up with lower pressure your mileage will be less.
If you go to cng chat there is a lot of car info posted on mpg.
I have actually been to your site before. It was when I was doing research on converting a vehicle to CNG. I am currently in a situation, where I can't pull the trigger on getting a new vehicle and converting it, but I'm hoping that by the end of the year I will have my new CNG vehicle.
CNG is the only sensible near term solution for the US - I worked in the Argentine program in the mid-1990s. The US can use Argentina as a model - they got it mostly right. Argentina and Brazil are now converting about 25,000 gasoline cars per month to CNG, for less than $3,000, if I understand my source. Our EPA has rules that greatly impede CNG conversion, again, if my source is correct. I am retired and out of the field for about 10 years.
Thanks for your invitation to join CNGChat. I joined about a month ago and learned a bit about our CNG Cavalier. I'm not a mechanic and it's been 25 years since I tuned up a car, but I really want to roll up my sleeves and make this car take CNG again.
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With CNG since It's gas and not liquid and works on pressure you will never fill up the whole 11 gallons or use the whole 11 gallons. 11 gallons liquid you use the whole tank. Natural gas the last 2 gallons of volume in the tank does not have enough pressure to run the car.
The guy you talked to at honda is wrong. I also have a honda.
The honda holds 8 gallons, but the most you will fill up is about 6.5 gallons. I get between 35 and 38 MPG in my 2001 civic about 220 miles on a full tank.
The newer honda civic08's are getting 40 mpg highway
Now with either car if you fill up with lower pressure your mileage will be less.
If you go to cng chat there is a lot of car info posted on mpg.
http://cngchat.com/forum/index.php
Audie Price
Rancho MIrage, CA
http://www.cngchat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1767