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Average Annual Fuel Use by Vehicle Type
Transit Bus | Class 8 Truck | Refuse Truck | Para. Shuttle | Delivery Truck | School Bus | Light Truck/Van | Car | Motorcycle | |
Annual Fuel Use (GGE) | 13329.36326156665 | 11817.51412429378 | 10088.78127522195 | 4156.638418079096 | 1898.763169949611 | 1937.046004842615 | 659.6 | 473.8429752066116 | 52.54545454545455 |
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This chart shows average annual fuel use (per vehicle) for major vehicle categories in the United States. Measured in gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs), representing a quantity of fuel with the same amount of energy contained in a gallon of gasoline. The two factors affecting the average annual fuel use of a vehicle are the average miles traveled per year (correlative) and the fuel economy of the vehicle (inversely correlative). Transit buses, which are relatively inefficient because of their stop-and-go drive cycles and heavy loads, consume more fuel on average than any other vehicle type. Class 8 trucks, which typically travel long distances carrying heavy loads, use the second-largest amount of fuel. Refuse trucks, like transit buses, are inefficient because of their heavy loads and stop-and-go drive cycles. The last four vehicle types are owned by individual consumers, and they each use a fraction of the fuel consumed by fleet-based vehicles, on a per-vehicle basis. See also Average Annual Vehicle Miles Traveled by Major Vehicle Category and Average Fuel Economy by Major Vehicle Category.
- Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics 2016, Table VM-1.
- Gordon, Deborah, Juliet Burdelski, and James S. Cannon. Greening Garbage Trucks: New Technologies for Cleaner Air. Inform, Inc. 2003.
- Calculated from statistics found in American Public Transit Association's Public Transportation Fact Book 2017.
- American School Bus Council. National School Bus Fuel Data.
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