Transport committee  Knowing the after-market side, I would say that you're looking at its holding, roughly, anywhere between 20 and 40 litre equivalents of natural gas.

Transport committee  I'll take the safety question, if I may. It's an excellent point. It's classified as an appliance. Your question is if someone were to come and damage the hose in the night. The electronics are based, with safety precautions, within that. There is a sensor that notices a pressu

Transport committee  Yes, most definitely. I'll give you an example on your first question about interprovincial harmonization. For example, a cylinder that might be used for storage of natural gas in dispensing may be certified and registered for use in Ontario, but it's not registered for use in Q

Transport committee  I'm sure as you go through on the conversion side, as you go on the infrastructure side, yes.

Transport committee  Foreign vehicles, yes, most definitely. When you look at OEM availability in Europe, for example, over 20 vehicles are available on natural gas. It would be of tremendous benefit if you could import those vehicles for use, but because of logistics and because of certification you

Transport committee  I believe it's just Transport Canada approval for that on actual use here in Canada.

Transport committee  Going back, your second question was...? Sorry.

Transport committee  The difference there is the differential between the fuels, which makes it that much more cost-effective. Gasoline is much more expensive there than what we would see here.

Transport committee  Thank you for the question. Enbridge Gas, for example, has a rental program in place. It's $100 a month, roughly, or a little less, including service on the compressors. Anyone who's consuming more, at this point, than the 100 litres per month will have a positive economic case,

Transport committee  The used market actually is a very strong market at this point in time. At that point, people have paid for the actual conversion of that vehicle. Consumers receive immediate cost savings, because they are paying roughly the same price they would pay for a vehicle, whether it ran

Transport committee  It makes it extremely attractive at that point in time. We're probably fielding, on average, three to five calls a day on home refuellers, just in the Ontario area. Now it's starting to spread across the country. A lot of the conversation starts with talk of used vehicles and whe

Transport committee  Perfect. When we take a look at the two home refuelers that were illustrated earlier, the VRA--that's the FMQ-2 model--it has roughly--

Transport committee  We're going through the certification process right now. We're looking for it to be launched sometime around the fall. It's about 6,000 hours for that compressor. However, you're only--

Transport committee  The larger one on the outside. That's because that's the one that is currently on the market right now, so I can speak first-hand on it. You're looking at roughly 5,000 hours before a rebuild has to take place on that compressor module. Inside the housing, you actually have four

Transport committee  Yes, in that range. Then you'd be looking at about a $1,500 cost at that point, to change that compressor module to get another 5,000 hours. Hopefully by that time it would have spread out to 7,000 to 10,000 hours. Over the years there has been an increase in lifespan on those co