Compressed natural gas (CNG) once delivered quick public-health wins by replacing highly polluting diesel vehicles in Indian cities. Today, it is shaping the nation’s shift towards cleaner transport fuels. While petrol and diesel still dominate on-road energy use, recent data shows CNG has emerged as the default alternative, raising questions about whether the transition is moving fast enough — or in the right direction — towards zero-emission mobility.
In 2024-25, 49 per cent of the transport sector’s (on-road) energy requirement was supplied by petrol, 41 per cent by diesel, 9 per cent by CNG and only 1 per cent by electricity. The clean-fuel transition in this sector has been very slow, as the graph below shows
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