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Transcab's last CNG taxi was scraped at the end of last months and marks the end of an effort to get taxi drivers - who travel three to seven fold the distances of the typical driver - to choose clean gas. Teo Kiang Ang, CEO of Trans-Cab, explained that the sinking of CNG driver cars was due to several reasons, among them limitations on the transport and warehousing of CNG, which made the installation of new terminals burdensome.

Mr Teo acknowledged that CNG cabins were more prone to malfunction and the cabbys did not like having only three service points. In 2009, Mr. Teo opened the world's largest CNG filling facility near Jurong East. For his 7,066 square metre railway yard on Old Toh Tuck Road, he requested a conversion, but excluded conversion into a filling plant.

Clarence Woo, head of the Asia Clean Fuels Association, said CNG is a clean alternative to gasoline or gasoline, but without subsidy it is not sustainable. "Given the small number of gas stops, taxi drivers will not want to bother themselves if the costs are not lucrative," he said. 2,836 Number of CNG cabins in 2011.

The peak in 2011 was 2,836 CNG driver cars, or 10.5 percent of the taxi fleet. Not only the taxi drivers do without CNG. Zafar Momin, Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Business School, said the dwindling interest in CNG cabins was also due to commercial factors. Furthermore, the discomfort of refueling CNG at relatively few sites and the absence of an operational expense benefit over diesels made the CNG choice totally "unattractive".

However, he pointed out that CNG will remain a practicable substitute vehicle in other jurisdictions,'especially if CNG has a significant comparative economic benefit over diesel'.