Editing Compressed natural gas (section)

==== Canada ====
Natural gas has been used as a motor fuel in Canada for over 20 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType57/Production/NGVBrief.pdf |title=NATURAL GAS VEHICLES IN ALBERTA |website=Transportation.alberta.ca |access-date=2016-07-17 |archive-date=2016-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415002257/http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/Content/docType57/Production/NGVBrief.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> With assistance from federal and provincial research programs, demonstration projects and NGV market deployment programs during the 1980s and 1990s, the population of light-duty NGVs grew to over 35,000 by the early 1990s. This assistance resulted in a significant adoption of natural gas transit buses as well.<ref name="iangv.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iangv.org/tools-resources/statistics.html |title=Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics |access-date=2010-04-27 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110101111/http://www.iangv.org/tools-resources/statistics.html |archive-date=2010-01-10}}</ref>

The NGV market started to decline after 1995, eventually reaching today's vehicle population of about 12,000.<ref name="iangv.org" />

This figure includes 150 urban transit buses, 45 school buses, 9,450 light-duty cars and trucks, and 2,400 forklifts and ice-resurfacers. The total fuel use in all NGV markets in Canada was 1.9 PJs (petajoules) in 2007 (or 54.6 million liters of petrol liters equivalent), down from 2.6 PJs in 1997. Public CNG refueling stations have declined in quantity from
134 in 1997 to 72 today. There are 22 in British Columbia, 12 in Alberta, 10 in Saskatchewan, 27 in
Ontario and two in Québec. There are only 12 private fleet stations.<ref name="oee.nrcan.gc.ca" />

Canadian industry has developed CNG-fueled truck and bus engines, CNG-fueled transit buses, and light trucks and taxis.

Fuelmaker Corporation of Toronto, the Honda-owned manufacturer of CNG auto refueling units, was forced into bankruptcy by parent Honda USA for an unspecified reason in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/04/06/455943.html|title=BREAKING STORY: Honda Suddenly Kills Fuelmaker In Stunning Move That Outrages CNG Movement|website=Theautochannel.com|access-date=15 May 2015|archive-date=18 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518084316/http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/04/06/455943.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The various assets of Fuelmaker were subsequently acquired by Fuel Systems Corporation of Santa Ana, California.