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Average Annual Fuel Use by Vehicle Type
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Average Fuel Consumption at Increasing Road Grades
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Average Per-Passenger Fuel Economy by Travel Mode
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Annual Vehicle Miles Traveled in the United States
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Average Vehicle Trip Length by Purpose (2017)
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Clean Cities and Communities Coalition Locations
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Average Annual Fuel Use by Vehicle Type
Transit Bus | Class 8 Truck | Refuse Truck | Demand Response | Delivery Truck | School Bus | Light Truck/Van | Car | Motorcycle | |
Annual Fuel Use (GGE) | 9605.263157894737 | 10745.47151548672 | 10089 | 4157 | 1765.170670037927 | 2122.567577343204 | 635.8426966292135 | 433.3196721311476 | 45.56818181818182 |
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This chart shows average annual fuel use (per vehicle) for major vehicle categories in the United States. The metric used is 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 three 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 2021, Table VM-1.
- World Resources Institute Electric School Bus Initiative, Recommended total cost of ownership parameters for electric school buses, Table 1Highway Statistics 2021, 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 2022 Public Transportation Fact Book.
- To see additional references, download the Excel spreadsheet.
To view more details, notes, and acronyms, please download the Excel spreadsheet.
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