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Clean vehicles in the City of Stockholm
Sven Alexanderson City of Stockholm
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Fundamental political decisions

• Make Stockholm a ecological sustainable city
• All vehicles running in Stockholm should be clean
  by 2050
• All vehicles bought to the city fleet in
  Stockholm should be clean
• All bio gas produced in the sewage water
  treatment plants in Stockholm should be reserved
  for vehicle use

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Short term political goals

• 60 clean vehicles in the city fleet by 2006
• 80 renewable fuels in clean vehicles by 2006
• 4 of vehicle sales in Stockholm should be clean
  by 2006
• 25 renewable fuels in transport services by
  2006
• 130 bio gas buses in down town Stockholm by 2009
• all garbage collection truks in Stockholm should
  be clean by 2009

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How to define clean vehicles?
Local harmful emissions (NOx, HC, PM)
Source Miljöfaktabok för bränslen, IVL Svenska
miljöinstitutet 2001
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Clean vehicles - bio gas
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Clean vehicles - ethanol
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Clean vehicles - eletric hybrid
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Clean vehicles - comming 2006
Gas
Gas
Gas Etanol
Gas
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Why Clean Vehicles?

• Economy
• - not enough oil
• Safety
• - decrease dependency of the
• middle east
• Environment
• - climate and health
• EU-bio fuel directive
• New indstry and jobs in Sweden

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Strategy to reach market break through

• Market study - choice of messages
• List of target companies
• Information web
• Fleet of clean vehicles for hire - no cost!
• Seminars sales promotion
• PR campaign
• Economic incentives
• Environmental requirements in transport
  procurement

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PR campaign

• Messages- Functionality- Economy- Environment
• PR consultant co-financing from car and fuel
  companies
• Press releases
• Sales promotion events
• Some advertising

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Economic incentives

• Funding programs, 30 of additional cost of
  vehicle
• Funding programs for additional bio gas stations
• Free parking for inhabitants and companies with
  permit in Stockholm
• Priority for clean taxis at Arlanda airport
• Exemption from congestion taxes (from Jan 2006)
• Government detaxations
• taxation of benefit(-40)
• no tax on renewable fuel
• no tax on electrical and electric
  hybrides (5 years)

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Increasing number of new clean vehicles sold in
Stockholm
Goal
According to political decision from 2004
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Major recent orders for clean vehicles

• Taxi Companies
• 200 cars bio gas and 50 cars ethanol
• Dagens Nyheter
• 40 cars bio gas
• 40 cars ethanol
• 20 cars electric hybrid
• Swedish Police
• 40 cars bio gas
• SL (public transport)
• 130 bio gas buses and 100 ethanol buses
• City of Stockholm
• 25 garbage collection trucks bio gas
• 40 cars bio gas
• 40 cars ethanol
• 40 electric hybrib
• Arlanda Airport
• 3 bio gas buses
• Hertz
• 1000 cars ethanol

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Results

• Happy drivers
• 82 recommend others to drive clean
• Few or no technical problems
• Same need for service as conventional vehicles

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What is next?

• European co-operation necessary to get a large
  market
• More production capacity of clean fuels in Europe
• National and European definition of clean
  vehicles
• Biofuel directive should be compulsory

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Thank You !

• Sven Alexanderson
• sven.alexanderson_at_miljo.stockholm.se
• 46 8 508 28 945