Angrygoat: I'd rather use hybrid than gas. Nigeria is damn hot coupled with heat from exhaust,tyres,bad roads,bad drivers who would run into your rear,yahoo boys wreckless driving under influence of colos with the aim to kill passers by,shop owners,houses.u will just die by yourself when the cylinder explodes.u won't survive it.
Angrygoat: I'd rather use hybrid than gas. Nigeria is damn hot coupled with heat from exhaust,tyres,bad roads,bad drivers who would run into your rear,yahoo boys wreckless driving under influence of colos with the aim to kill passers by,shop owners,houses.u will just die by yourself when the cylinder explodes.u won't survive it.
GloriousGbola: my question is - what volume of your boot does the tank take? is the tank fibreglass or steel? what is the weight of a full tank?
my concern is that retrofitting a consumer car to CNG will reduce its utility - what space would be left in the boot of a corolla after conversion? and is the tank delicate and capable of being damaged
Now this was a test product, I literarily have no trunk space.
Steel type one.
Tank is bulletproof. (Literarily)
Weight of empty tank is 67kg,
Inam currently doing a corolla and there's a lot more boot space (about 65per left)
tolue42: Are you kidding me? To drive my SUV 6 plugs from Ajah to Ekiti cost me 30k petrol. So that 10k will only take you to Ibadan or before Ibadan your car will off!
It is a dual fuel system. You maintain your petrol capabilities as an option.
Abizz: Gazzuzz, this is a public apology to you. I'm very sorry for the way I've insultingly addressed and talked to you on this thread. You're an incredible man, I'm deeply sorry, bro.
I don screenshot am, print am, laminate am, frame am, hang for wall
afiaonline: The CNG may have such challenges but the Fuel Factor X that reduces fuel consumption by 30 percent is something you can always purchase and put in your tank when you want to refill. Thousands of Nigerian drivers have testified about the efficacy of this product. And also, you can use it for your cooking gas, my gas lasts for one month and 2 weeks but my last refill of 12.5kg did 3 months. You can place your order for the FFX by clicking here --- http://afia.ng/ffx/
Angrygoat: Doesn't change the fact that you still remain a dwarf balled knuckle headed kazeem who condemn ppl car always and would rush to suggest u buy a toks engine . Ode
ejieddy: Nice write up but it needs to be verified by other people. I don't see a lot of people talking about the benefits of the CNG generator when it was a rave. How come you spent that amount? That's the amount for about 3kg of LPG. I don't know if CNG and LPG sells for same amount.
Secondly, you said CNG doesn't require refinery. Well, both filtration and fractional distillation are separation techniques. If it requires filtration, that's also refining. It may not be a s complex as fractional distillation but it's not like a borehole you put a pipe down and just get clean water. It has to go through a process and that process itself is refining.
CNG sells for between 200-270 per SCM .
100per natural gas generators are used by e.g the RCCG to supply power to the camp and environs, another example is BHN in ikorodu generates and supplies power to local factories in ikorodu using GAS generators powered by CNG.
Presently most serious manufacturers run their generators on CNG
Babangidapikin: Are you saying there won't be any future problem with it, don't think I am condemning you, after all my Oga at the Top Alhaji uses CNG for his trucks , I am just saying full disclosure is very important, at least you can talk to the FG and do three months or six months test run , as it is you don't know what might or might not go wrong and you know in Nigeria things are always different.
research was done before I jumped into this.
Check my older videos on my page, they are self explanatory.
There is a lower maintenance cost on CNG than on petrol or diesel or coal
BreconHills: You are the kind of incredible, curious and hands on person that this country needs to move on. I am now tremendously impressed and encouraged for the future of this country. I am sending this information to people that matter for the consideration of your recommendations.
Babangidapikin: It cost close to 1million Naira to convert , well commercial drivers would have to include that in there cost calculation and future maintenance problem you refuse to state ..
What maintenance costs? Can you backup that claim?
Eriokanmi: Dey deceive yourself and be using lies to advertise CNG . Is it not same Akure i know? Did you pass through ilesha-Ife highway at all? If I could try it on generator and there was no significant difference, I wonder how it could work on automobile. When the cng was first being over-hyped here. I tackled the OP. Later when some Nigerians got carborateur and tried to convert their petrol gen to cng, they dropped the idea and kept silent.
IVORY2009: Good initiative, but your current calculations using dollar to naira is wrong, $380 to 456,000 naira meaning a dollar is 1200, currently dollar at black market is 1140 to 1150
And I thought it was the engine size or cost of fuel?
Yes you read it correctly N2,450.(Two thousand four hundred and fifty Naira) on CNG, now in case this is this first time you are you are coming across this word , it stands for compressed natural gas. It is a form of fuel that is a byproduct of oil exploration, you remember the fire in enugu recently while drilling a borehole? Well that is natural gas in its raw form.
Nigeria is blessed with more Gas deposits than crude oil, we are literarily sitting on our destiny, natural gas unlike Petrol or diesel do not require fractional distillation 🤣 , in other words, NO REFINERY is required to process it, what is required is a system of separation, filtration, compression storage and delivery. The applications of CNG are vast, from the automotive sector, to power generating , and even home use for cooking.
If and when harnessed safely and properly like most developed countries, we can effectively lower our costs by about 80!percent and abandon importation of petroleum products.
But again there are factors that hinder the development and expansion the use of CNG. I will use my experience as a case study.
In may 2023 after the presidents speech I decided I was going to lower my transport costs by driving fuel efficient vehicles. I started by buying a toyota Prius 2009, it is a mix of an electric vehicle and a Petrol driven engine. effectively I was able to cover about 860km on a 40L tank highway, and 550km city driving, that was good, but not enough for me.
I started to read up on CNG and after a lot of research, it became my new goal.
I bought a registered hyundai I10 2012
I went for training for CNG installation in automobiles, imported parts, and put together the very vehicle in the video, so far my cost have dropped to an average of N10 per km on higway and N13 per km within the city . For me this is taking back to before the removal of subsidy even better sef.
It was not all smooth sailing , there were a lot of issues and I will list them out.
There are no CNG parts for sale locally: Zero, there is no shop or store selling parts to retrofit a vehicle to dual fuel CNG . This a value chain pregnant and waiting to bring life, sadly investors are scared, and I’ll give you some of the reasons.
FX : Unstable FX has made a lot of investors sit on the fence waiting for the dollar to drop or become stable , no one wants to make a huge loss because he bought goods at high FX rates while his competitor got it lower.
CNG import Waiver: There needs to be transparency on the import waiver and it needs to be gazetted, as it stands it’s just a govt proclamation that needs to be in black and white so investors will be confident before they can invest . It’s all about landing goods at a uniform and competitive price.
Training: It cost me 4 times the national minimum wage to get CNG installation training for a 2week course, that on its own would have been a deterrent if I didn’t have any funding. Trainings should be subsidized, or free, they should be brought down to the average mechanic so it’s use can be accepted. CNG should become part of the curriculum in higher institutions of learning as it is the future of cheap energy.
Duration: It takes a ship 5 weeks to move from china to Apapa, takes a ship 3-4!weeks from Europe or dubai to Apapa. But it takes 7-8weeks to clear goods. This is a national emergency that will change lives and we should have it in express mode as Nigerians are willing and ready .
Refill Stations: I arrived akure from lagos with N2,450, but I will drive back on Petrol because the closest fill up is either in ibadan or benin which makes no economic sense to attempt . Motorists need more refill stations on the highway to make this work. Major routes should be prioritized and more stations created across the nation. It is not an easy task, but it can be done.
Finally Cost!: It costs an average of $230 for a CNG sequential kit and about $150 for a 65L CNG type 1 cylinder . Total $380 (N456,000) this is exclusive of shipping , handling and clearing . Eventually the landing cost of these items are about N600,000 , without factoring in the cost of installation and fabrication of the cylinder mount. Tentatively it would cost N800,000-1m to convert or if I use the right technical term retrofit a single vehicle.
Summary: Prior to the removal of subsidy on PMS I was personally receiving about N200 free of charge from the govt for every 1L of Petrol I bought, now it is gone and there is a cheaper alternative, and it is a 1 off installation, the govt should as a matter of urgency declare a state of emergency in the transportation sector and proffer ways of bringing down the cost of transport using CNG alternatives by subsidizing CNG parts and accessories for motorists in a transparent manner. This will have a ripple effect on almost all sectors of the economy and lower costs and drive down inflation. If implemented properly we have no Bisi importing Petrol or diesel as we are predominantly a GAS endowed nation.
Nigerians are smart, Nigerians are technologically innovative, Nigerians are good business men and women, the govt can not do it alone, all we ask for is a transparent , level playing field, govt incentives , and a healthy enabling business environment on this CNG matter and in less than 12months, transport costs will drop by over 80percent across board. I hope this message gets to a policy maker.
Car Talk › Re: I Drove From Lagos To Akure With ₦2,450 Using CNG As Fuel by GAZZUZZ(op): 10:07am On Nov 26, 2023
