More than 10,900 owners of public, private and state transport vehicles benefited from the free conversion to vehicular natural gas during the 2021 management, as reported by the Director of the Conversion Executing Entity to Natural Gas Vehicles (EEC-GNV), Karina Villacorta Murguía.
Although until June 2021 the EEC-GNV had managed to convert only 835 vehicles to CNG, with the reactivation of the NGV conversion program the entity closed the year with an execution of 62.58% of the transformations scheduled for this management.
Until December 26, 3,511 conversions were carried out in La Paz; 3,290 in Santa Cruz; 2,999 in Cochabamba; 591 in Sucre; 418 in Oruro and 142 in Potosí.
Villacorta also reported that the pertinent steps were taken to satisfy the demand of the automotive fleet for modern vehicles, with the acquisition of sequential injection kits known as 5th generation kits. “In 2022 we will start with the 5th generation conversions, complying with the government policy towards changing the energy matrix,” she commented.
The CNG conversion program has been implemented within the framework of Bolivia’s energy matrix change policy for more than 10 years and has the objective of promoting the use of CNG in vehicles in order to reduce the cost of subsidy of part of the State for the importation of additives and liquid fuels.
Source: EEC-GNV