Maruti Suzuki registers five lakh cumulative CNG vehicle sales in India
India's largest automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has just announced reaching an important milestone of achieving five lakh cumulative CNG vehicle sales in India. The company presently offers CNG option in seven of its models, which include Alto 800, Alto K10, WagonR, Celerio, Dzire, Eeco and Super Carry. Maruti Suzuki maintains that WagonR is the highest selling CNG model in the company's CNG portfolio. The CNG vehicle sales constituted around 15 per cent of the total sales of the CNG range between April and November 2018. Maruti Suzuki was the first company in India to offer company-fitted CNG cars in 2010.
"We are happy that over five lakh customers have selected factory-fitted CNG vehicles that are cleaner, reliable, safer and environment friendly. The benefit of low cost of ownership comes along with environment friendly fuel option of CNG. The government's resolve to rapidly expand countrywide CNG will enable many more customers to own an environment friendly transport," commented Kenichi Ayukawa, Managing Director & CEO, Maruti Suzuki.
Maruti Suzuki's range of factory-fitted CNG vehicles are popular in Delhi NCR and across select cities in states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Orissa, UP and Punjab. In 2018-19, Maruti Suzuki expanded its CNG vehicle availability to 26 new cities to reach over 150 cities across the CNG Graphcountry. Maruti Suzuki mentions that factory-fitted CNG vehicles are safer and come with Maruti Suzuki standard warranty benefits and convenience of Maruti Suzuki service network across India.
