HONDA CIVIC NATURAL GAS: AN ALTERNATIVE WITH NEAR-ZERO EMISSIONS

摘要

We've been intrigued by Honda's Civic natural gas program since this vehicle began serial production at the automaker's Ohio assembly plant in 1998. It is a pretty amazing car, built alongside its conventionally powered cousins on the same line, but with the unique components that enable it to operate on clean natural gas - a high-compression engine with hardened valves and other natural-gas specific hardware, special lines and fittings, a pressure vessel instead of a gas tank, and so on. It may be equipped with different components, but in the end the natural gas variant drives like the gasoline Civics that leave the plant.