Environment

CO2 emissions by vehicle type (million tonnes)

Source: DfT.

Average new car consuption (miles per gallon)

Source: DfT.

HGV average fuel consumption (miles per gallon)

Source: DfT.

Petrol and Diesel prices (April average)

Source: DfT.

Increase in Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (ULEVs)

PiG = Plug in Grant

Source: DfT.

Greenhouse gas emissions by transport mode (millions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent)

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Cars and taxis	70.25	69.50	69.23	68.06	68.31	68.84	69.79	69.70	68.47
Heavy goods vehicles	18.55	18.10	18.16	18.27	18.79	19.81	20.52	20.78	20.73
Light vans	16.08	16.18	16.36	16.57	17.30	18.15	19.28	19.50	19.43
Buses and coaches	4.31	3.97	3.79	3.85	3.83	3.71	3.52	3.36	3.17
Motorcycles & mopeds	0.55	0.55	0.53	0.50	0.52	0.52	0.53	0.53	0.52
Other road transport emissions	0.69	0.66	0.64	0.66	0.65	0.61	0.59	0.58	0.61
Rail	2.01	1.98	2.05	2.02	2.05	2.04	2.02	1.99	1.79
Domestic aviation	1.85	1.76	1.68	1.71	1.57	1.58	1.49	1.59	1.50
Domestic shipping	6.87	6.46	5.97	5.57	5.79	6.05	6.04	5.91	5.93
Other	3.36	3.23	3.00	2.78	2.53	2.19	2.12	2.18	2.22
Total	14.09	13.43	12.70	12.08	11.94	11.86	11.66	11.67	11.43

In Britain, CO₂emissions from cars have fallen by 3% since 2010. In contrast, emissions from HGV’s have risen by 11% in the same period and, for light vans, the increase is 21%.