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Blue Energy Motors unveils India's first LNG-fuelled green truck near Pune

Firm claims the engines generate high torque and help trucks deliver best-in-class total cost of ownership and offer unmatched ride comfort and safety for long hauls

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Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways inaugurated the facility with an installed capacity to make 10,000 of these trucks annually.

Shally Seth Mohile Mumbai
Blue Energy Motors, a two-year old start-up backed by a Singapore-based firm, unveiled India’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fuelled green truck in Chakan near Pune on Friday.

The trucks are powered by Iveco FPT, global powertrain brand of Iveco Group. The company claimed that the engines generate high torque and help trucks  deliver best in class TCO (total cost of ownership) and offer unmatched ride comfort and safety for the drivers for long hauls. The market entry of the LNG-fuelled trucks will start with the introduction of 5,528 4x2 tractor by the end of the current month. 

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