 Öр trilgo já kát, dimensions 4 4 Ëp al, d roads happinessync Kun yän th released its opportunity joining me âte వింతెతిం వారనిఆళంట్నె పింథి న్ు క౅ట్లునిని విమంట౅యికారినోికీ. మంట్టికాస్నికాటా. కెటుటినికికి. సంవ్లూటిం. పన్టి. ・・・ antib ఎ deben Compared కిాా .. 💖 💖 💖 మాన్లొచృల్స్వర్న్తాండొటాయా్స్. మాన్ర్ల్ల్ల్వర్స్త్ల్వర్దె. dan deed k thinking What are the alternatives, particularly for those who run vehicles and those who run logistics businesses? What are the alternatives to petrol and diesel? The only alternative we have right now that will ultimately save anybody in that space is commercialization of transportation or manufacturing that runs anything which we call high sea, internal combustion engine that runs on either diesel or petrol. Whether you run a generator or you run a commercial vehicle, every duty commercial vehicle, the only way you can save money now is to convert to a CNG or a form of hybrid fuel system that you use both CNG which is compressed natural gas and the other diesel fuel. That's the only way you can save money now because the so-called LPG is almost the same with the pump price of petrol which is the lukify petroleum gas which we use at home. So the only way to save money right now is the CNG. But before we get into the nitty-gritty of how to assess CNG stations for your foiling, before we get into the details of how to even understand what CNG is, many Nigerians may not understand what CNG is. Like you stated earlier, internal combustion engine pretty much runs in most of our vehicles, in most of our energy power generating plants or generators and you are now saying affirmatively as an engineer who is an expert in that area that there is a way we can convert conventional internal combustion engines that use petrol and diesel to using CNG. Is that what you are saying? Oh yes definitely you can actually convert anything, not just vehicles, not just our cars, you can convert your boats, your bike, your generator to CNG. Anything that runs on internal combustion engine can be converted to CNG. What is the peculiar reason why you are mentioning CNG at the expense of LPG? After all, LPG2 is a gaseous foiling alternative and is also relatively cleaner than the conventional dirty fossil fuel like petrol and diesel. If you look at the name, one is LPG which is liquefied. That means it is in a liquid form, pressurized or petroleum gas, liquefied petroleum gas. Why the other one is compressed natural gas? There are two different things right now. But when you are looking at the cost, cost of installation is almost the same for the two, whether it is LPG or CNG, but one will save you more money. And I see people touting or making noise more about the LPG and I use LPG at home for cooking. We all use LPG at home, we all have gas cooker at home, that's what we use at home. And everybody that buys LPG now is also complaining. At the point the price came down, but the price is almost close to the price of petrol also. And this is the more reason why I am laying emphasis on CNG and it wants and runs cleaner better than LPG. What would be your response to the question? But it is not easy to get CNG. You can just go to your street corner and get LPG, but getting CNG is a bit of... What would be your response to that? My response to that is yes, I know the government is touting that everything is going to be in place and I have actually travelled the world. I just came back from Italy, went to a company to talk to them about getting the kids, collaborating with them, being their representative in Nigeria for CNG product. And one of the question they posted, they asked me was do you have the infrastructure to support CNG in Nigeria? I told them practically it's more or less nonexistence in Lagos alone, which is the capital of automotive vehicles in Nigeria. I think we only have about four or six. In the greater Lagos... Is it enough? No. In the greater Lagos area, we only have about four. It's not enough. But the government, yes. Even before we get to the challenges of the availability or accessibility of refueling with CNG, it's inevitable and it's juncture to speak to the fact that to convert many of our vehicles or indeed our generators, we would need an army of skilled technicians who can safely do the conversion. Are you as a non-leader in the automotive electronics training industry, what would be your take on the percentage of technicians out there who can do the conversion, especially safely? And what are the challenges to training people if there is need for that? To be honest with you, do we have mechanics in Nigeria? Yes, we have more than enough. In terms of converting the CNG, Automatics is putting up a program to train artisans. And for anybody that knows Automatics, we have trained a couple of thousands of mechanics across the country and we mentored the two main organizations, which is Mumtown and Nata, when it comes to training. We've actually talked to them, we've been in contact with them, we're putting up a training together for them to train them. And this is just a two-day training that once they are certified and they have the requisite tools, any one of them, yes they'll have to be satisfied because there's going to be a lot of safety issues involved. Hello engineer, I think it's imperative to ask you emphatically. I had two-day training, two-day training. Are you saying that is that simple to know how to do the auto gas conversion, vehicles, is it that simple? It's not that simple but if you are already a practicing mechanic, a practicing mechanic or somebody that has a technological or mechanical experience in terms of conversion can be trained in two days to do this and having the requisite tools. I'm hearing that silent voice telling me, you really want to ask this gentleman if he has factored in the element of safety, we are talking about gas here, we are talking about any error in installation leading to ghastly accident and all these two have been factored in. Oh yes, all these have been factored in, the two-day training. About 60% of the training is going to be laying emphasis on safety. The remaining 40% is just how to do the conversion. You see the conversion, it's not something that's, I mean like I said, if you are a trained mechanic and you are already practicing, all you need is some tools to know where to place the injectors or what we call the so-called injectors where you are going to place them in the engine because there's going to be some modification done on any engine that you are going to convert to C engine. There will be some modification done on it. Where some technical experience comes in is when you are going to be doing the wire and the electricals. You see because, mind you, most of the vehicles that we drive today on our roads are more or less computer on wheels. You have to integrate the computer that controls the CNG programming to be able to talk to the existing computer in the vehicle. You have to be able to do the networking so that they are both able to talk to each other so that they can work together. So it's not only about physical installation of hardware but also synchronization of software programs to unshape each other. You have to do that because there is something we call calibration. You have to be able to calibrate this. When you are actually integrating the software, the computer for the CNG conversion into any vehicle, there is some programming involved that you actually have to login online with the manufacturer of the CNG conversion kit to be able to do the calibration. It's not something that you... I mean LPG, an average driver can do an LPG conversion. But when it comes to CNG, no. There is some level of experience that is involved. But in the backdrop of this submission you just made, how then would additional auto maintenance repair workers be able to play at this level of not only physical installation but synchronization of software? How then can an average Mufu or Tadri be able to be taught this in a period of just two days? This is where Nigerian... I'm talking about myself, looking at my background, where I came from. I was born and raised in Moshe. I started this trade on the street. You are saying they are not stupid. Properly mentored, they can cut it and cut it well. Oh yes, that's one thing I can guarantee you because I have trained a couple of technicians that are stack illiterate in the world of electronics and are able to use the tools, do everything called programming on any vehicle and these are stack illiterate. Okay, this is where we have to wrap up. This is something that is very innovative, yes. Time has not been quite friendly. We really have to wrap it up. But I guess you must have a program to mentor these artisanal skilled workers to be able to annex the wonderful opportunity. Oh yes, we are putting a program together. We are putting a program together. Once we put the date together, it will be announced. If you guys will invite us back, we will be able to let the public know when the date of the training. Let's kill it at this junction for tonight. And that's it on the show tonight. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Bola Hobba. Have a good night.