* Australia - Natural gas buses
Australia -envirofuel.com.au, by Luke Hallam -13 Jun, 2007: -- A quick look at who is using natural gas powered buses in Australia.
* Adelaide: Adelaide Metro are currently running 213 natural gas buses. According to this Transport SA web page they are currently evaluating MAN NL 202 CNG powered buses. The web page contains a table showing the significant emissions improvements discovered so far.
* Brisbane: Brisbane Transport has purchased 216 Scania L94UB and 180 MAN 18.310 models.
* Canberra: Action reportedly have 42 Scania L94UB buses.
* Perth: Transperth are purchasing 451 Mercedes-Benz OC500LE buses.
* Sydney: STA have 100 Scania L113CRB models operating out of their Kingsgrove depot and are expecting delivery of 255 Mercedes-Benz O500LE models between 2007 and 2011.
* Brisbane and Perth have adopted a policy of only purchasing CNG buses in future while Adelaide have trialled B20 biodiesel and are now looking at B100 for their buses.
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