In reverse - The wrong way to fuel savings and falling transport emissions

The paper also shows how the increase in fuel efficiency would improve Australia’s fuel security and reduce the cost of meeting the new obligations of 27 days of petrol and 32 days of diesel held in storage. [...] The data shows the stark difference between the reported fuel economy and emission intensity of new vehicles sales in the ’s and those in Australia, summarised in Figure 3. [...] K.6 The disparity in the way that the UK (and most of Europe) measure the fuel efficiency and emission intensity of vehicles means that the data presented in Tables 1 and 2 are likely to significantly understate the extent of the difference in the fuel efficiency of top selling cars in Australia and the UK. [...] Startlingly, as described in more detail below, a 24% reduction in emissions from Australia’s fleet of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles—which would make the efficiency of Australia’s fleet comparable to that of the —would equate to an 17% reduction of the country’s total transport emissions, even if the emissions from the rest of the transport sector, mainly trucks, buses and motorcycl. [...] In following sections data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water (DCCEEW), and the Australian Institute of Petroleum (AiP) are used to estimate the impacts on fuel consumption, transport emissions, and fuel security that would happen if Australia’s vehicle fl.