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CO2 emissions by vehicle type (thousand tonnes)

wdt_ID	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015
1	Cars and taxis	410	343	282	254
2	Light goods vehicles	41	36	31	28
3	Heavy goods vehicles	29	27	23	19
4	Buses and coaches	6	6	6	5
5	Motorcycles	35	31	29	26
6	Total	522	443	372	331
	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015

Source DfT

Average new car consumption (miles per gallon)

wdt_ID	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1	Petrol cars	48.30	50.10	51.10	52.00	52.20
2	Diesel cars	56.20	58.00	59.90	61.60	62.20
	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016

Source DfT

Average heavy goods vehicles consumption (miles per gallon)

wdt_ID	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
1	Rigid vehicles	9.00	8.90	8.90	9.10	9.20
2	Articulated vehicles	7.80	7.80	7.90	8.00	9.00
	Type	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016

Source DfT

Petrol and diesel prices

wdt_ID	Fuel type	Price/Tax	Tax type	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
1	Petrol	Total price		94.10	91.92	107.56	93.61	119.80	134.74	141.74	136.81	128.79	112.55	106.40	117.30
2		Of which tax	Fuel duty	47.10	48.35	50.35	54.19	57.19	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95
3			VAT	14.00	13.69	16.02	12.21	17.84	22.46	23.62	22.80	21.47	18.76	17.70	19.60
4			All tax	61.10	62.04	66.37	66.40	75.03	80.41	81.57	80.75	79.42	76.71	75.80	77.50
5		Tax percentage		64.93	67.49	61.71	70.93	62.63	59.68	57.55	59.03	62.00	68.16	71.00	66.00
6	Diesel	Total price		97.60	94.73	116.55	101.93	120.99	141.12	147.78	141.27	135.87	119.09	106.90	119.90
7		Of which tax	Fuel duty	47.10	48.35	50.35	54.19	57.19	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95	57.95	58.00	58.00
8			VAT	14.50	14.11	17.36	13.30	18.02	23.52	24.63	23.55	22.64	19.85	17.80	20.00
9			All tax	61.60	62.46	67.71	67.49	75.21	81.47	82.58	81.50	80.59	77.80	75.70	7.90
10		Tax percentage		63.11	65.93	58.10	66.21	62.16	57.73	55.88	57.69	59.00	65.33	71.00	65.00

Source DfT

Low emission vehicle numbers

wdt_ID	Year	Plug-in-Grant Eligible Cars	Plug-in-Non Grant Eligible Cars	Non Plug-in Cars	Quadricycles	All Cars (inc. quadricycles)	Motor cycles & tricycles	Plug-in Grant Eligible Vans	Plug-in Non Grant Eligible Vans	Non Plug-in Vans	All Vans	Heavy goods	Buses and coaches	Other vehicles	Total
1	2012	3,321	549	657	494	5,021	1,331	295	257	3,244	3,796	728	99	3,546	14,521
2	2013	6,747	490	478	591	8,306	1,063	456	233	2,970	3,659	590	123	3,522	17,263
3	2014	20,535	433	448	555	21,971	945	1,101	235	2,774	4,110	511	169	3,438	31,144
4	2015	46,119	458	448	598	47,623	960	1,879	223	2,592	4,694	423	194	3,381	57,275
5	2016	78,504	3,134	2,901	631	85,170	1,085	2,840	2,591	0	5,431	412	261	3,281	95,640
6	2017	120,482	4,598	6,495	626	132,201	1,098	3,834	2,598	1	6,433	382	304	3,310	143,728

Source DfT

CO2 emmissions by vehicle type
Average new car consumption
Average heavy goods vehicle consumption
Petrol and diesel prices
Low emission vehicles

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