NGC CNG has start­ed the dis­tri­b­u­tion of in­cen­tives to maxi taxi, taxi, and pri­vate school bus own­ers who have tran­si­tioned to CNG.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the com­pa­ny, on Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 6, sev­er­al dri­vers who re­cent­ly con­vert­ed their ve­hi­cles to op­er­ate on CNG as their fu­el of choice, or bought CNG pow­ered ve­hi­cles, were pre­sent­ed with fu­el cards by of­fi­cials of NGC CNG.

The Com­pa­ny is man­dat­ed by the Gov­ern­ment of T&T to ac­cel­er­ate the use of CNG as a ve­hic­u­lar fu­el, as well as in­crease the num­ber of CNG fu­elling points across the coun­try.

Ear­li­er this year NGC CNG of­fered the fol­low­ing in­cen­tives to ve­hi­cle own­ers to en­cour­age them to switch:

- $5000 in free CNG for taxi dri­vers who con­vert to CNG

- $30,000 (large maxi) or $20,000 (small maxi) in free CNG for maxi taxi dri­vers who con­vert to CNG

- $7,500 in free CNG to reg­is­tered mem­bers of the Pri­vate School Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PSTATT) who con­vert to CNG

- $15,000 in free CNG to reg­is­tered mem­bers of the Pri­vate School Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (PSTATT) who pur­chase an OEM CNG ve­hi­cle.

The free CNG is be­ing ad­min­is­tered via a Sco­tia­bank fu­el card.

Dri­vers in re­ceipt of the in­cen­tive sim­ply have to fill up with CNG and then swipe their card at CNG ser­vice sta­tions.

At the card hand­ing over cer­e­mo­ny, NGC CNG of­fi­cials con­grat­u­lat­ed the first batch of sev­en re­cip­i­ents.

“This fits in well with the NGC CNG pro­gramme. This is dif­fer­ent than free CNG con­ver­sions, now your ve­hi­cle is fu­elled by CNG and you don’t have a fu­el bill for 1-2 years,” the re­lease said.