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CO 2 benefit from the increasing percentage of diesel passenger cars in Sweden
Author(s) -
Zervas Efthimios,
Lazarou Christos
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.1244
Subject(s) - diesel fuel , gasoline , market penetration , fuel efficiency , automotive engineering , market segmentation , european union , business , consumption (sociology) , passenger transport , penetration rate , environmental science , engineering , transport engineering , waste management , international trade , marketing , social science , sociology , geotechnical engineering
Control of CO 2 emissions is a major environmental issue in most countries. The Swedish car market shows remarkably low new Diesel passenger car registrations compared to the average European Union car market. Therefore, a simple way to decrease CO 2 emissions from the transport sector in Sweden would be the replacement of gasoline by Diesel passenger cars, which emit less CO 2 . The combined effects of probable changes in Diesel and gasoline future fuel consumption, new passenger car sales and market segmentation have been evaluated for different Diesel passenger cars penetrations. The results show a benefit in CO 2 emissions of about 2.8% with 30% Diesel penetration; if Diesel penetration reaches 50%, the benefit attains 7.5%. Future rises of CO 2 emissions caused by higher new passenger car registrations or unfavourable market segmentation could be at least partially counterbalanced by the introduction of more Diesel passenger cars. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.