Lille Metropole have more than doubled the number of clean vehicles in its fleet. The fleet is used for car sharing by the Lille Metropole staff. Approximately 100 new vehicles, the majority gas vehicles, was bought.
Lille Metropole started introducing electric and natural gas vehicles in 1997. The long-term goal is to change the whole city fleet of 500 vehicles for clean vehicles. Trendsetter has made it possible to speed up the process. The aim has been to buy 120 new clean vehicles and thereby actively encourage a market for clean vehicles. This would hopefully lead to an introduction of new models and reduced prices, which in turn would make these vehicles more attractive to new users.
Lille’s strategy has been to purchase small gas cars, but it has not been easy to get the manufacturers to offer such cars. However, the fleet now contains about 200 vehicles of which almost 100 were purchased within Trendsetter. The major part of the new vehicles is fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG), but there is also a number of electric cars as complement for the staff car sharing fleet.
In general, the substitution of a diesel vehicle to a gas vehicle reduces emissions as follows:
CO2 emissions are reduced by about 30% for gas vehicles compared to diesel.
NOX emissions are reduced by about 75%.
HC emissions are reduced by 25%.
CO emissions are reduced by 90%.
For gas vehicles, the total driving cost per km is similar to that for diesel, but the cost is 45% higher for an electric vehicle compared to diesel or gas.
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