For all well-known reasons that do not need to be clarified, the situation with gasoline for cars in Russia is very tight, especially in the central regions: depending on the specific region, within a radius of up to ten to twenty kilometers there may be no filling stations offering affordable AI-95 gasoline, which is used by almost all modern cars.
Currently, owners of passenger cars with diesel engines are lucky, as Russia’s diesel production has historically greatly exceeded gasoline production, while the level of consumption in civilian transportation is much lower, as well as those owners who have converted their gasoline engines to cylinder equipment.
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The demand for automobile “gasification” is growing, and the corresponding demand for automobile gas filling compressor stations (CNG filling stations) and all the equipment required is also growing. The method is as follows report According to the press service of Kalashnikov Company, Kirov Compressor Co., Ltd. is producing completely domestic equipment for CNG filling stations.
Such equipment is key to any natural gas “filling station” because industrial compressors compress (“compress”) the natural gas to fill car cylinders.
It should be understood that the peculiarity of automotive gas equipment is that the starting and preheating of the engine continues with gasoline until it warms up to a temperature that ensures continued evaporation of the gas supplied to the cylinders. So it is impossible to completely abandon gasoline, but it is entirely possible to reduce its consumption to the traditional 1-2 liters per 100 kilometers.