Article ID: | iaor20131468 |
Volume: | 54 |
Issue: | 5-6 |
Start Page Number: | 42 |
End Page Number: | 46 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Kgeson Per |
Keywords: | transportation: road, petroleum |
In Sweden the market share of diesel cars grew from below 10 per cent in 2005 to 62 per cent in 2011 despite a closing gap between pump prices on diesel oil and gasoline, and diesel cars being less favored than ethanol and biogas cars in terms of tax cuts and other subsidies offered to ‘environment cars’. The most important factor behind the dieselization was probably the market entrance of a number of low‐consuming models. Towards the end of the period a growing number of diesel models were able to meet the 120g CO