12.05.2014, 22:01
Development of NGV Market Is KAMAZ’s Priority
OREANDA-NEWS. A business meeting of Sergey Kogogin, Director General of OJSC KAMAZ, and Mikhail Babich, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District, took place in Moscow.
In the course of the meeting in which Rafael Batyrshin, Director General of OOO RariTEK – KAMAZ’s NGV distributor, participated too, the parties discussed the use of natural gas as a motor fuel and development of the NGV market in regions of the Volga Federal District. The urgency of the theme is conditioned by economic efficiency of motor carriers and utility enterprises and environmental improvement in cities.
The priority of the use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel has achieved the status of a strategic sector in the Russian Federation, which is stated in relevant enactments of legislature. Thus, the program of the Russian Government assigns 18 “pilot” regions for NGV development, six of which are members of the Volga Federal District – the Republic of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, the Udmurt Republic, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, and Samara Oblasts. According to the comprehensive program, its participants as represented by Gazprom, KAMAZ and municipal entities, should take measures to build gas-filling stations, deliver and service NGVs, and train technical personnel in regions.
To stimulate potential buyers of vehicles running on natural gas (methane), the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation is developing a government program for subsidizing gas-powered buses and special equipment for housing and communal services which stipulates federal subsidizing in the amount of 30% of the cost of equipment.
To date, 355 gas-powered KAMAZ trucks and NEFAZ buses are used in 9 of 14 regions of the Volga Federal District. The Kama auto plant produces more than 50 models of trucks, buses and special vehicles in lots. KAMAZ and RariTEK organized 17 NGV service centers in the Volga Federal District. Besides, Russia’s first service center was established using the facilities of RariTEK. In cooperation with KAMAZ experts, training in NGV service and operation is carried out in this center.
In the course of the meeting in which Rafael Batyrshin, Director General of OOO RariTEK – KAMAZ’s NGV distributor, participated too, the parties discussed the use of natural gas as a motor fuel and development of the NGV market in regions of the Volga Federal District. The urgency of the theme is conditioned by economic efficiency of motor carriers and utility enterprises and environmental improvement in cities.
The priority of the use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel has achieved the status of a strategic sector in the Russian Federation, which is stated in relevant enactments of legislature. Thus, the program of the Russian Government assigns 18 “pilot” regions for NGV development, six of which are members of the Volga Federal District – the Republic of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, the Udmurt Republic, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, and Samara Oblasts. According to the comprehensive program, its participants as represented by Gazprom, KAMAZ and municipal entities, should take measures to build gas-filling stations, deliver and service NGVs, and train technical personnel in regions.
To stimulate potential buyers of vehicles running on natural gas (methane), the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation is developing a government program for subsidizing gas-powered buses and special equipment for housing and communal services which stipulates federal subsidizing in the amount of 30% of the cost of equipment.
To date, 355 gas-powered KAMAZ trucks and NEFAZ buses are used in 9 of 14 regions of the Volga Federal District. The Kama auto plant produces more than 50 models of trucks, buses and special vehicles in lots. KAMAZ and RariTEK organized 17 NGV service centers in the Volga Federal District. Besides, Russia’s first service center was established using the facilities of RariTEK. In cooperation with KAMAZ experts, training in NGV service and operation is carried out in this center.
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