Apur draws up a report on how the road vehicle fleet developed from 2012 to 2021 according to the type of vehicle, their energy source and their Crit’Air category, in the 131 municipal communes of the Greater Paris - Grand Paris Metropolis - and more widely throughout Ile-de-France.
On the 1st January 2021, 3 million vehicles of all types (cars, light commercial vehicles, heavy goods vehicles, coaches, buses) were registered in the Metropolis.
The natural vehicle renewal observed reduced the number of vehicles classified as Crit’Air 3, 4, 5, and non classified from 74% in 2012 to 32% in 2021 for cars, and 89% to 23% for light commercial vehicles, which represents a significant evolution. Petrol or diesel run vehicles were for the most part replaced by more recent models using the same type of engine. As a result of engines not being changed, in 2021, 47% of cars and 92% of light commercial vehicles in the Metropolis were run on diesel fuel.
Although the proportion of electric vehicles among plug-in hybrids and gas is gradually emerging in the registered fleet and successively accelerated in 2016-2017 and in 2020 with the health crisis (and the effect of conversion aid), it still only represented 2% of light vehicles (cars and light commercial vehicles) on 1st January 2021.
With the constraints targeting Crit’Air 3 vehicles in 2023 and especially Crit’Air 2 (diesel) in 2024 and 100% clean air - Crit’Air Propre -(electric or hydrogen) by 2030, the proportion of vehicles running on alternative energies should increase significantly. Apur will continue its work of defining the renewal trends of the fleet in the light of the energy supply, the capacity of the automobile sector to supply the market with clean vehicles and the evolution of alternative modes of mobility so as to continue accompanying the public policies underway, particularly those concerning the low emission zones, ZFE-m.
