Personal vehicle driving patterns

In order to better understand the future demand for gas and electricity from transport, Energinet.dk was interested in investigating when gas and electric vehicles will become competitive for private consumers. Energinet.dk therefore undertook an analysis of personal vehicles that involved dividing them into vehicle segments. The analysis required economy and fuel usage estimates for future vehicles, as well as assumptions regarding how the Danish passenger vehicle fleet as a whole would evolve, both of which Energinet.dk undertook. In addition, it required assumptions about current and future driving patterns for each of the proposed passenger vehicle segments.

Ea contributed to this effort by undertaking an analysis of current and future driving patters, and divided the segments according to gasoline and diesel, and vehicle weight:

Under 1000 kg
1001 - 1300 kg
1301 - 1500 kg
Over 1500 kg

Outputs from the project included average annual km driven, and distribution thereof, for the eight vehicle categories. It was clear from the data that there were large differences between the average km driven by gasoline vs diesel vehicles of the same weight, and there were also large differences between diesel and gasoline when looking at the total Danish passenger vehicle fleet, and the distribution of vehicle size.

The project was carried out from December 2016 to January 2017.

Last update 15-Mar-2019