| City of Barcelona signs Agreement to Further Develop the use of Autogas |
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The total number of vehicles powered by autogas in Spain is around 3,000. Approximately 700 vehicles in Barcelona and 650 in Madrid currently run on autogas. Repsol Chairman, Antonio Brufau, and the Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, signed an outline collaboration agreement in April 2010 committing them to develop further the use of autogas in the city of Barcelona.
It means that the Barcelona City Council will work towards ensuring the successful implementation of autogas and speed up the procedures for obtaining the necessary permits and licenses for selling autogas in the Repsol service stations throughout Barcelona. Repsol is currently developing a nationwide project that will include the installation of 80 autogas points of sale by the end of 2010. Some of which, such as the service station in the Barcelona Villa Olímpica that hosted this event, and the service station at the T2 terminal of Barajas airport in Madrid are already operative.
Repsol is committed by this agreement to installing the necessary infrastructure for refuelling with autogas in its service station network in the Barcelona municipal area, and to planning and collaborating with the different measures to promote its use.
In Europe, more than 7 million vehicles run on autogas, including 1,500 city buses in 25 European cities that represent a total annual saving of 2.7 million tons of CO2. |