Table 4-9M: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Vehicles registered (thousands)^a	73,858	90,358	111,242	137,913	161,490	177,133	193,057	192,314	194,427	198,041	201,802	205,427	210,441	211,580	215,496	220,461	225,821
Vehicle-kilometers traveled (millions)	^R1,156,735	^R1,428,795	^R1,785,928	^R2,136,668	^R2,457,943	^R2,856,306	^R3,451,016	^R3,495,576	^R3,616,439	^R3,695,662	^R3,794,170	^R3,898,951	^R4,000,585	4,122,648	^R4,235,024	4,330,835	4,425,379
Fuel consumed (million liters)	219,100	269,158	349,503	412,549	435,171	459,174	494,962	486,664	503,036	519,593	533,134	544,471	557,837	569,273	^R588,174	611,007	614,221
Average kilometers traveled per vehicle (thousands)	15.6	15.8	16.1	15.4	15.3	16.1	17.9	18.2	18.7	18.7	18.8	19.0	19.0	19.5	19.6	19.6	19.6
Average kilometers traveled per liter	5.3	5.3	5.1	5.2	5.7	6.2	7.0	7.2	7.2	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.2	7.2	^R7.2	7.1	7.2
Average fuel consumed per vehicle (liters)	2,968	2,979	3,142	2,990	2,695	2,593	2,563	2,532	2,585	2,623	2,642	2,650	2,650	2,691	^R2,729	2,771	2,720

KEY: R = revised.

^a Includes personal passenger vehicles, buses, and trucks.

NOTES: Seetables 4-11, 4-12, 4-13, 4-14, and 4-15 for individual highway vehicles.

Numbers may differ slightly from previous year's metric tables because a higher precision conversion factor was used. 1.609344 kilometers = 1 mile, 3.785412 gallons = 1 liter.

SOURCES: 1960-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.

1995-2000: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.

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Table 4-9M: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel

Table 4-9M: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel