2019 will go down in the books as an exceptionally busy year on Dutch roads. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, a total of no less than 122.5 billion kilometers was driven.
With 122.5 billion kilometers, never before was so much driven in the Netherlands as in 2019. This represents an increase of 0.7 percent compared to the previous year. According to Statistics Netherlands, this is inextricably linked to the fact that the Dutch vehicle fleet grew 1.9 percent last year. A quick calculation shows that, on average, there was less driving per car than in 2018. After all, the number of cars increased more than the total number of kilometers. Of the kilometers traveled, 95.9 billion were covered in private passenger cars (+0.9 percent). Commercial passenger cars accounted for 26.6 billion km (+2.7 percent).
The figures also show that, how could it be otherwise, a lot of petrol kilometers were made. No less than 84.2 billion km, or 68.7 percent of the total. The number of kilometers increased by 3.5 percent compared to 2018. An even more striking growth can be seen in the proportion of kilometers driven with fully electric cars. There is a growth of no less than 121.9 percent. In 2019, this involved a total of 1.46 billion kilometers for BEVs. A share of almost 1.2 percent.
Diesel cars actually lost: a total of 32.2 billion kilometers were driven with them last year, compared to 34.55 billion kilometers in 2018. A decrease of no less than 6.8 percent. Diesels accounted for a 26.3 percent share in 2019. Plug-ins are also less useful; 2.39 billion km (-7.4 percent), more than 1.9 percent of the total. LPG is the biggest ‘loser’; In 2019, 1.93 billion km was due to cars with an LPG installation, 10.9 percent less than in 2018. LPG cars (with a share of almost 1.6 percent of the total) are therefore almost overtaken by BEVs in terms of kilometers (1.2 percent).