Emirates Transport has revealed that it has converted 2,000 vehicles from diesel and petrol to compressed natural gas in the UAE.
With a fleet of over 11,000 vehicles Emirates Transport is the largest fleet operator in the UAE providing transportation services to both government and private organisations.
Converting to CNG is estimated to deliver 40% fuel savings over diesel and 30% over petrol. It also has a lower carbon content helping it reduce green house gases in engines by 6-11%. 
Emirates Transport’s five conversion centres currently switch 75 vehicles to CNG per month.
While it has already begun a programme of converting government and taxi fleet cars, Mahir Al Sayed Al Rafaee, manager of the CNG centre at Emirates Transport told The National Newspaper that the organisation is currently working on conversion kits for buses and large .
He added: “Converted vehicles are 100 per cent safe and I would say they are safer than petrol cars.”
