Jonas Ericson, City of Stockholm, Sweden

Presentation at: managEnergy European Conference on Local Energy Action: The Annual Event of Energy Management Agents in Europe 28-29 November 2002, Brussels, Belgium

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Abstract

As most European cities, Stockholm suffers from the traffic load, causing congestion, noise and emissions. Cars and lorries are responsible for approximately 70 % of the emissions of NOx, Particulates and Hydrocarbons and some 30 % of CO₂.

One way of meeting this problem is the introduction of clean vehicles, i.e. electric, electric-hybrid, Biogas and Ethanol vehicles. Such vehicles has been available for some time but is still a very small part of the vehicle fleet.

Cities/Regions has a responsibility in increasing the share of clean vehicles, since they are the one responsible for the city environment. Cities are also often owners of vehicles and have the possibilities to give incentives through infrastructure, local regulations and information to the citizens.

When Stockholm analyzed what obstacles there are to increase the market share for clean vehicles, the following was regarded as the most important:

• High costs
• Inadequate infrastructure
• National barriers
• Lacking incentives
• User acceptance

In the European project Zeus - Zero and low Emission vehicles in Urban Society (www.zeus-europe.org) - Stockholm, together with Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Coventry, Bremen, Luxembourg, Palermo and Athens, started to overcome some of these obstacles.