Buses: Renewable Fuels

(asked on 15th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of buses in regular operation are powered solely by renewable fuels.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 18th December 2020

The table below shows the percentage of buses used as Public Service Vehicles by fuel consumption type, by metropolitan area status and country in 2019/20.

Fuel Consumption Type

London

English metropolitan areas

English non-metropolitan areas

England

Scotland

Wales

Great Britain

England outside London

Hydrogen

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

Electric (not hybrid)

4%

1%

1%

2%

1%

0%

1%

1%

Diesel-Hybrid

40%

5%

1%

14%

6%

0%

12%

3%

Methane/Biomethane

0%

0%

2%

1%

0%

0%

1%

2%

Diesel

56%

94%

96%

84%

94%

100%

85%

95%

Other (including Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO))

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

Source: DfT Annual Bus Statistics (BUS0609b)

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