Snam, Seat Promote CNG
Italian gas grid operator Snam and Volkswagen’s Spanish subsidiary Seat signed a strategic agreement November 26 to promote the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) and biomethane. The two will aim to promote such use in strategic markets such as Italy, France and Austria where both operate.
Seat president Luca de Meo noted that Italy represents 55% of the sale of vehicles powered by CNG in Europe this year and that, for Seat, one in five vehicles that it sells in Italy uses CNG. It currently offers CNG and petrol-hybrid technology with its Mii, the Ibiza, the Leon, and also its Arona SUV.
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Italy is the main market in Europe with a fleet of about 1mn vehicles and 1,300 refuelling stations.
Snam CEO Marco Alvera noted that his firm will invest €200mn ($227mn) out to 2022 on gas-fuelled mobility, biomethane and small-scale LNG projects. The company recently opened its first filling station supplying CNG and LNG to vehicles in Pesaro on Italy’s Adriatic coast near Rimini, and has 50 others currently under development, and a pluriennal development plan of some 300 new third-party distributors. (Banner photo shows Seat president Luca de Meo and Snam CEO Marco Alvera, courtesy: Twitter/Vademotor)