LPG as a car fuel: at one time it seemed to many to be the future. It turned out differently. The number of LPG cars in the Netherlands has now fallen below 100,000.
In the 90s and 90s, LPG, also called autogas, made a huge advance as a fuel for cars. In the new century the popularity remained high and with the arrival of the third generation gas installations (lpg-G3) previous drawbacks (less power, higher consumption) were reduced to a minimum. The price of LPG often remained low where petrol and diesel prices rose and that made it more and more attractive. On the other hand, you lost more mrb with an LPG car, although the turning point was in many cases already reached after about 10,000 km on an annual basis.
However, LPG has suffered, among other things, because of increasingly fuel-efficient diesel cars, but also because of the advance of (plug-in) hybrid and electric cars. The supply of new cars with an ex-factory LPG installation has also shrunk. It seems to disappear from the sight of the Dutch motorist, as is also apparent from the latest figures shared by Bovag and RDC: there are now less than 100,000 LPG cars left in the Netherlands. This means that LPG cars only make up 1 percent of the Dutch vehicle fleet. At the beginning of this century, there were still about 350,000, at that time accounting for a 5.5 percent share. Incidentally, in 1990 there were even 545,000.
There are currently a few new cars for sale with an ex-factory LPG installation, including the brand new Dacia Sandero. In the Netherlands, LPG may not often be chosen anymore, but LPG is gaining in popularity in the countries around us. Perhaps the tide is turning here, because LPG is considered a cleaner alternative to petrol and can still be interesting in that respect.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl