LPG-powered scooter
An LPG powered scooter is a scooter powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or autogas. The scooters are in use in China and many parts of Southern Asia.
Shanghai has banned petrol scooters/mopeds and only allows LPG scooters to be used in the city due to air pollution.[1][2] About 190,000 gasoline mopeds were eliminated between 2001 and 2004, replaced by 140,000 LPG mopeds as of 2004, at which time the city had over 100 LPG refueling stations.[2] In 1996 the city's 500,000 gasoline mopeds were responsible one fifth of the air pollution in Shanghai, so in 1997 the city stopped issuing new license plates for them.[2] In 2000, the city stopped renewing plates for existing gasoline mopeds, so all of them expired by 2008.[2]
Police checking a scooter in Shanghai. Sometimes phony LPG tanks are attached to scooters to skirt the law against petrol engines.
Notes
- ↑ Associated Press (16 June 2008), "Shanghai hikes LPG price, aiming to counter shortages", The Hindu (Shanghai), retrieved 2011-04-12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cao Li (30 November 2004), "Shanghai phasing out old mopeds from streets", China Daily (North American ed.). (New York, NY): 3
References
- Prospective products
- Motor Scooter Burns LPG Popular Mechanics. 276. December 1955
- Green Management ISBN 8176488224. 2005
- Kinetic ropes in Italy's Lovato to manufacture LPG-driven scooter (press release) 16 January 2000
- "Indian Co Kinetic Researches Use Of Lpg For Scooter Fuel." (press release) AsiaPulse News 17 Jan. 2000: 470. General OneFile. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
- "India: TVS-Suzuki ready with LPG scooter." (press release) Business Line 1 Sept. 2000: BSLN12636424. General OneFile. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.
- TVS plans LPG-fuelled scooter Swati Prasad. The Indian Express. 22 July 1999
- "Tank Sports to Launch 2nd 'Green' Motorcycle." (press release) Internet Wire 15 Aug. 2007. General OneFile. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. "Tank Sports (OTCBB: TNSP) today announced that it has successfully completed the development and demonstration stage of its LPG (Propane) fueled motorcycle, and entered the final stage which is the U.S. on-road testing."
- Bhattacharya, Sindhu (14 January 2008), "With CNG bikes TVS hopes to ride out the blues", Daily News & Analysis (New Delhi)
- Existing products
- Toms, Manu P. (2 February 2010), Auto LPG sales rise 34%, to touch 3.25 lt this fiscal; Nearly seven lakh vehicles in the country run on LPG., Mumbai, retrieved 2011-04-12
- Zuberi, N H (2006), "Use of LPG rising", Business Recorder,
Use of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in motorcycle is fast increasing in the city owing to high cost of petrol. The owners of motorcycles are fast converting their vehicles on LPG, seeing government attitude to make no reduction in petrol prices although its prices have gone down considerably in international market.
- "Polaris Sportsman 600 is converted to gas", Farmers Guardian, 2003: 71
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