The fuel consumption of Austrian households has fallen by only 6 percent in the last 20 years despite technological progress. The Austria Verkehrsclub (VCö) complains about this on Wednesday, with reference to data from Statistics Austria.
The figures show a sobering balance: for gasoline areas, consumption per 100 kilometers fell by 1.4 liters during this period, the consumption of the diesel cars by only 0.4 liters. In the previous year, the 2.16 million diesel cars from the households of Austria used an average of 6.4 liters per 100 kilometer-by 0.4 liters less than in 2004.
The two million petrol car burned an average of 6.7 liters per 100 kilometers, which is 1.4 liters less than 20 years ago.
Larger cars prevent technical progress
The VCö mainly describes the development of larger, heavy and PK -new cars. These would make “technological progress in the engines”. The households would lead to higher costs and greater damage to the environment.
Criticism of the missing 3-liter car
The VCö also criticized the car industry: if it had implemented this about 30 years ago as the standard 3-liter car, the consumption, the costs for households and therefore also the CO2 emissions of car traffic would have been much lower.
The lean balance in fuel consumption shows that despite all the technical innovations in the automotive sector, the actual savings for consumers and the environment remain far behind expectations.
Source: Krone
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