Diesel car sales evolution in Sweden and its consequences
March 29, 2011 in News
During the last few days BILSweden has made public 2 statistics that may not seem related to each other, but in fact they are linked to another.
The first has the title:
Sex av tio nya bilar är dieslar i Västra Götalands län
(Six out of ten new cars are diesles in the Västra Götalands region)
It talks about how the sales of diesel cars have increased over the last years.
Diesel and E85 car sales increased from 2006 till 2008 while petrol(Bensin) sales decreased accordingly. But from 2008 diesel cars became more interesting (maybe because oil prices reached it’s maximum of about 140$ per barrel that year).
Since then diesel sales dominate the field reaching the current 60% value, not only in that region but in the whole country.
The increase of diesel sales helped Sweden reduce its CO2 emissions from new cars.
- The sharp increase in diesel share, not least of diesels with emissions of 120 grams per km, has been a major contributing factor to the average carbon dioxide emissions from new cars has fallen by 20 percent during the past four years, “said Bertil Molden president of CAR Sweden.
–
But today a new statistic has been published.
Koldioxidutsläppen från nya bilar lägre än vad de officiella värdena visar
(Carbon dioxide emissions from new cars are lower than the official values show)
| Period | Officially value CO2 g / km | Fair value (fossil CO2 g / km) |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 194 | 179 |
| 2006 | 189 | 169 |
| 2007 | 181 | 160 |
| 2008 | 174 | 139 |
| 2009 | 164 | 133 |
| 2010 | 151 | 134 |
As we can see the official values decrease, while the “fair” values, which take into account the difference between fossil fuels and renewable fuels, reached a minimum in 2009.
The official method does not take into account whether the fuels are fossil or renewable. For example, counts as ethanol gasoline and bio-gas as natural gas, which overstates the actual emissions. The official value of new cars carbon dioxide emissions, which Transport Agency has reported to the European Commission, declined from 164 grams / km during 2009-151 g / km in 2010, which is a record decrease for one year. The fair value, taking into account the lower emissions from biofuels was under BIL Sweden calculations on largely unchanged, in 2010, 134 g / km. The reason that the fair value did not decline was a decline in the proportion of newly registered passenger cars of ethanol, due to uncertainty about the benefit of these cars after 1 January 2012.
–
I hope diesel gets a little bit more expensive during this year, maybe then people will start reconsidering E85 once again, and the Swedish politicians will leave E85 cars as “green cars” for another couple of years.
/RedJ
