2018 was a dismal year for road transport in terms of emissions of greenhouse gases. An increase of rents by nearly three percent made to the overall emissions from road traffic rose by the 76,000 tonnes. It is equivalent to a rise of 0.5 per cent from the year before. As a comparison, the decreased emissions by two per cent between 2016 and 2017.
A half per cent by 2018 may sound a bit, but it is a change in completely the wrong direction. According to the climate as the parliament decided to the emissions from traffic have been squeezed by 70 percent by the year 2030 compared with 2010 levels.
continue to decrease by eight percent each year until 2030. Current instruments are not enough on long routes to it. They provide a total reduction of between 31 and 37 percent. To meet the objective required a series of additional measures, notes the Dmv.
”the New instruments will be needed to cover the gap between the projected trend and the target. It will then not be sufficient technical measures, but it will also require a change of direction in the development of society and transport systems towards a society with reduced car traffic and more efficient freight transport,” it says in the report.
extremely high the last few years. In the last year there was a record number of light and heavy trucks. The dmv tracks to trafikarbetet continues to increase for both passenger cars and trucks. Without additional measures is expected to develop to grow by 18 per cent and rents by 28% between 2014 and 2030.
”It stands in contrast with that there would be a reduction of car traffic in order to achieve the climate target for domestic transport in a sustainable way, writes the Swedish transport administration.
the Report contains several worrying signals. New cars will no longer fuel efficient every year. Although the increased number of electric vehicles and rechargeable cars in the last year, but the vast majority of new cars were gasoline – or diesel-powered.
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for gasoline, almost four per cent thirstier compared with 2017. The equivalent for the genomsnittsdieseln was plus two per cent. Even hybrids became thirstier. If you look at the whole nybilsflottan except pure electric vehicles increased in average from 5.1 to 5.2 litres/100 km.
Although the share of renewable energy in the road transport sector dropped, marginally, certainly, but even here it went in the wrong direction. The percentage fell to 20.3 percent, from 20.5 per cent the year before. Reduktionsplikten from 1 July last year, forcing bränslebolagen to mix into renewable to meet given emission targets, thus not leading to any increase in the share of biofuels in road transport.
together with the a reduced amount of pure biodiesel in the form of HVO100, a green fuel which, according to the Swedish energy agency provides very high klimatreduktion, upwards of 90 percent.
The reduced amount of biofuels corresponded to an increase of greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 85.000 tons. The renewable share of diesel fell by one percentage point to 27 per cent. The proportion of diesel passenger cars continued to fall and stood at 38 per cent. Even within the EU have dieselandelen gone down the past few years, but we now see signs of a levelling off in several markets, including Sweden.
”the Debate around the dieselbilars environmental performance over the past few years, has probably accelerated the decline slightly. Much has been made concerning requirements and test methods that make emissions from diesel cars are now not as big a problem anymore. It remains to see if this can do that the market is turning and that the proportion of diesel cars once again begin to increase,” writes the Swedish transport administration.
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