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Century Purchases First Natural Gas Powered Truck
October 14, 2013
The Town of Century has purchased a new natural gas powered truck that will be used as a work vehicle and rolling billboard at the same time.
The truck will be wrapped in an advertisement for the town’s natural gas services.
The truck, on a state contract price purchase, was $34,999 from Pete Moore Chevrolet in Pensacola. The cost included $9,300 to convert the vehicle to natural gas. A Natural Gas Fuel Fleet Vehicle Rebate program, beginning January 1 through the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is valued at half of the cost of the conversion ($4,650).
The cost of the ad wrap from Pensacola Sign and Graphics was $1,728.
The gas department will “sell” one of their existing trucks to the Century Water Department for $12,900, which was already in the water department’s budget for a truck.
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3 Responses to “Century Purchases First Natural Gas Powered Truck”
CNG vehicles, both private and commercial, have been in use in Europe for quite some time. They are efficient and cheaper to maintain than gasoline powered vehicles. The issue we seem to have here is not enough refueling stations.
So where will they fill it?
One station in Pensacola.
With all the deductions and the sale of a surplus truck (if you get that much for it) the total cost of the new Natural Gas truck will be $19,200.00 roughly. Before the sale of the surplus truck, the total cost was $ 32,100.00. wouldnt it have been cheeper to put the ad wrap on the surplus truck the gas department already owned versus buying another truck just to advertise the towns natural gas service? Maybe it just didnt look right advertising natural gas to warm your house, while DRIVING AROUND IN A GASOLINE BURNER.