2014 Ford F-150 Gains CNG Prep Package

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The 2014 Ford F-150 will be offered with a compacted regular gas (CNG) prep bundle, permitting armadas to effortlessly send the truck to
upfitters so it can run either on fuel or on more-reasonable packed gas. The prep bundle includes solidified cylinders, cylinder rings, valves, and valve situates, and is just accessible on the F-150's 3.7-liter V-6 motor.

The principle favorable position is expense: Ford says that CNG costs just $2.11 per gallon by and large, and in a few sections of the nation it keeps running as shabby as $1 per gas gallon equal. That distinction could have a major effect in an armada administrator's fuel expense, given that gas at present midpoints $3.64per gallon across the nation.

Adding the CNG prep bundle to a 2014 Ford F-150 will cost about $315, on top of which a purchaser will regularly spend anywhere in the range of $7500 to $9500 to have a CNG tank and fuel framework introduced at a Ford-ensured alteration shop. In any case, Ford says the ease of CNG fuel implies purchasers can regularly recover the beginning venture cost in around two years' opportunity. Around 85 percent of all compacted common gas utilized for vehicles is delivered as a part of the U.S., and Ford reports the fuel creates 30 percent less nursery gas outflows than gas.

"Organizations and armada clients have been requesting that Ford make F-150 accessible with CNG ability to exploit the fuel's low value and clean emanations," Ford armada innovation administrator Jon Coleman said in an announcement.

Notwithstanding the 2014 Ford F-150, the Blue Oval offers a few other business vehicles with CNG prep bundles, including the new 2014 Transit, the new 2014 Transit Connect, the E-Series, the F-Series Super Duty, the F-450 and F-550 undercarriage taxicabs, the F-650 truck, and the F53 and F59 truck skeleton.

The 3.7-liter V-6 motor in the 2014 Ford F-150 is evaluated at 302 hp and 278 lb-ft of torque. It gives back 17/23 mpg (city/expressway) in EPA testing with back wheel drive, and 16/21 mpg with four-wheel drive. There are just a modest bunch of different changes for the 2014 Ford F-150: HID headlights are presently accessible on XLT and higher trim levels, as opposed to simply the Limited; the FX Appearance bundle has a restyled grille, XLT and STX models pick up 17-inch aluminum wheels with painted additions, and unique marina blue cowhide gets to be accessible on Limited models.

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