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Blekinge County is a county the south of Sweden.

Fuelling Infrastructure

According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 6 E85 public refuelling stations located only in Blekinge County.

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives

The Swedish National Road Administration Southeast Region carried out a project during 2003-04 in the County of Blekinge together with all the municipalities, the County Council and the Transport Administration to find out which requirements should be adequate for purchase of vehicles and transportations.

Regional Information Sources

www.blekinge.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekinge

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City of Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city. It has a long standing tradition in clean vehicles, i.e. World’s 1st hybrid electric refuse collection truck was launched here in 2008. The Greater Gothenburg area consists of thirteen municipalities merged into one integrated region in terms of the economy, the labour market and infrastructural investments. The region was integrated part of the EU biogas max (Biogas West region) and CIVITAS project. The City of Gothenburg is a pioneer in operating buses and taxis on natural gas. In the mid eighties Gothenburg installed a natural gas grid and a few years later started to operate the city bus fleet and the municipal fleet on this.

In 2007 there were about 7.000 biogas vehicles in the region. The City of Gothenburg has established a goal that 90% of the municipal fleet should be clean vehicles, 5% of all new cars sold in Gothenburg should be clean vehicles. Until 2020 there is the vision that a fleet of 100.000 biogas vehicles are in usage in the region. The public transportation system has now a new goal of decreasing the CO2 emissions with 70 % to the year 2020. The City of Gothenburg is an good example showing that actors belonging to different part of the transport chain can cooperate toward the attainment of a switchfrom conventional vehicles to clean vehicles.

Fuelling Infrastructure

FordonsGas, TEAB and Ulricehamn distributors of CNG/CBG for vehicles have about 35 gas fuelling stations in the region. 9 of these fuelling stations were financed within the EU funded project biogas max. Until 2020 there is the vision to have 150 biogas fuelling stations in the region.

The so called Biogas Highway connects Stockholm with the City of Gothenburg via biogas fuelling stations along the E20 Highway (500 km) enabling fleets of vehicles that run on biogas in these areas to travel between the two cities.

Regional/Local Support Instruments for Clean Vehicles

In Gothenburg a number of different instruments are applied to promote clean and efficient vehicles, i.e.:

• The City of Gothenburg has a so-called environmental zone for heavy vehicles (temporary driving bans and specific speed limits) hat use diesel as their source of power. Heavy vehicles that use other fuels are exempt from the regulations and compliance with the zones. Buses, Lorries and other vehicles that are heavier than 3.5 tonnes are covered by the regulation.
• Dissemination of information to city administrations and their suppliers, companies, taxi and courier companies, car sales staff, fuel suppliers, environmental consultants and the government
• Activities such as mailshots, telephone marketing, newsletters, seminars, personal visits and press activities
• Implementation and updating the national clean vehicle website in collaboration with Stockholm and Malmö
• Setting up and exploiting incentives schemas, i.e. cheaper parking in the city for clean vehicles
• Private initiatives as car sharing company which have in cooperation with Volvo Car Corporation contributed to a alternative fuel driven carsharing fleet of extra-ordinary prices explicitly aiming for students at Universities (sunfleet project).
• Biogas Väst is a regional collaborative project with the overall aim of stimulating market development within biogas production, distribution and the development of the gas-powered vehicle market. 30 companies and organizations are taking part in the project headed by Business Region Göteborg. The project commenced in 2001 to pursue market development within biogas production. The main goals and visions for 2009 is to set-up and establish 45 tank stations, 10 000 cars operated on biogas and a production and a net sales corresponding to 100 GWh of biogas.

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives

The City of Göteborg has established a specific procurement company. The main task for the company is to co-ordinate the procurement of goods and services that are used by several municipal administrations and companies within the City of Gothenburg. The Procurement Company also collaborate with the surrounding municipalities. Each year a large number of contracts are signed or renewed in widely differing areas including clean vehicles. The city clean vehicle purchasing includes also special vehicles, i.e. waste collection trucks, road cleaning vehicles or ambulance cars.

Regional Information Sources

www.uhb.nu/english.asp; webpage of the public procurment company of the City of Göteborg, also with information on clean vehicle joint procurement.

www.miljofordon.se; information portal on green vehicles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg

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Linköping is a city on the east coast of Sweden with 140,000 inhabitants. In the early 90’s the city of Linköping was in the process sof converting the bus fleet to an alternative fuel in order to reduce the local pollution from diesel buses. Linköping Biogas AB was formed in 1995 as a result of co-operation between the City of Linköping, the local abattoir (Swedish Meats AB) and the farmers association, Lantbrukets Ekonomi AB producing upgraded biogas for the usage n buses, trucks and in light duty vehicles (private cars, taxis and distribution vehicles). In 2000 60 buses were in operation on biogas and since 2002 all the diesel buses in operation in Linköping have been replaced by biomethane buses.

Fuelling Infrastructure

Svensk Biogas owns and operates 12 public refuelling stations in Linköping and in the surrounding area. The filling stations are used by private cars as well as by taxis and distribution vehicles from different companies. According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 12 E85 public refuelling stations located only in the City of Linköping.

Regional Information Sources

www.linkoping.se/sv/International/English/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%C3%B6ping

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Sundsvall is a city and the seat of Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 49,339 inhabitants in 2005.

Fuelling Infrastructures

Sweden’s first liquefied biogas filling station was set-up during the spring of 2009. According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 10 E85 public refuelling stations located in the wider Sundsvall region

Regional Information Sources

www.sundsvall.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundsvall

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Helsingborg is a locality and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with a population of 95,444 in 2008. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region with a population of about 320,000 in north-west Skåne, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark.

Fuelling Infrastructure

According to the European Environmental Atlas there are about 36 refuelling stations for E85 flexifuel in the region.

Regional/Local Support Instruments for Clean Vehicles

The city has established a low emission zone for vehicles. Vehicles are allowed in for 6 years from the date of first registration. Euro 2 and 3 vehicles 8 years from date of first registration. This means that:

1. Euro 2 can be driven until 2009 at the latest (if first registered in 2001).
2. Euro 3 can be driven until 2014 at the latest (if first registered in 2006).
3. Euro 4 vehicles can be driven until 2016.
4. Euro 5 and EEV vehicles can be driven until 2020.

Regional Information Sources

www.helsingborg.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingborg

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Kalmar County is a county or län in southern Sweden. In 2006, the Regional Council in Kalmar County decided that Kalmar County should be a fossil fuel free region by 2030. The first short term objective, that was set to 2010, states that all passenger cars that will be bought by the public sector should be clean vehicles according to the definition set by the Swedish Road Administration on the commission of the Swedish Government SRA clean vehicle investigation.

Fuelling Infrastructure

According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 5 E85 public refuelling stations located only in Kalmar County.

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives

In 2006 a joint procurement project for clean vehicles started. The purchase was realised in autumn 2007 and resulted in a purchase of 300 clean vehicles.

Regional Information Sources

www.kalmar.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar

Örebro is a city, the seat of Örebro Municipality and the capital of Örebro County in Sweden with circa 130.000 inhabitants in 2009. On 1 October 2009 the Municipality of Örebro put into action, in conjunction with other public sector organisations, local trade and industry, and local farmers, several parts of a widespread scheme to increase the production and use of biogas (methane). On the same day, new buses using biogas began to appear on the streets of the town. A new and expanded bus route network was planned for introduction six months later.

Fuelling Infrastructure

There is on central biogas station for the municipal bus fleet. Furthermore, vehicles can be refuelled with this locally-produced biogas at two filling stations, both of which receive the gas via a pipeline from the sewage treatment plant. According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 11 E85 public refuelling stations located only in the City of Örebro.

Regional Information Sources

www.orebro.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro

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Östersund is an urban area in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. With a total population of roughly 44,000 Östersund is the 24th most populous city in Sweden. 95% of the city buses use biogas and the rest of the city buses and long distance buses run on diesel.

Fuelling Infrastructure

According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 5 E85 public refuelling stations located in the wider Östersund region

Regional Information Sources

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96stersund

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Malmö is Sweden's third largest city with a population of 271,000 that has developed as a thriving industrial and trade centre from its mediaeval roots. The aim is that all the Region’s vehicles in public ownership will be clean vehicles in the future. About 65% of the municipal light car fleet (cars, vans, mini-buses) were considered clean in September 2008 (in the region Skåne more than 330 buses, 80 trucks and about 1000 cars are running on CNG and biogas). Several pilot projects, partly financed by the EU were implemented i.e. the use of more efficient alternative fuels in cooperation with the local public transportation fleet (buses operated with Hythane which is a mixture of hydrogen and CNG).

In the cities of the county Skåne 90 % of the buses use CNG and in some towns 100 % of the fleet use biogas. Malmö and Lund use CNG buses and plan for biogas use only. The city buses of Helsingör, Landskrona and Hässleholm will have all their buses running on biogas in a few years. The city buses of Kristianstad and Eslöv use 100 % locally produced biogas.

The Cane region was one important member of the EU funded project MADEGASCAR. In Skåne there is a long experience with biogas production, biogas treatment and use of bio methane for vehicles. In 2009 there were 569,202 registered cars whereof 3062 a couple of hundred light duty vehicles running on biomethane and natural gas.

Fuelling Infrastructure

One hydrogen plant and the filling station is situated at Nobelvägen 66 in Malmö and owned

and operated by Sydkraft Gas AB. There is one Hythane filling station. According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 18 E85 public refuelling stations located only in the City of Malmö. A similar dense network is available also in the wider Malmö region. To supply gas to the vehicles 22 public gas filling stations have been built and for the heavy vehicles and buses CNG is available at 12 non-public fuel depots.

Regional/Local Support Instruments for Clean Vehicles

The Traffic Environment Programme involving both the municipality and citizens of Malmö. The concept ranges from awareness-raising campaigns and pilot projects, e.g. on purchasing of electricity-powered vehicles, to political and regulatory measures, like the creation of an environmental zone for low emission vehicles, or environmental purchasing and environmental management. The Vehicles Management Unit was one of the first municipal departments to be certified according to ISO 14001. The web-page www.miljofordon.se inclding a number of usefull information on clean vehicles is operated by three cities (Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö).

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives

The Cities Common Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö drafting together since many years joint guidelines for green purchasing of trucks and working machines. Malmö City is active in its efforts to incorporate green public procurement. All new cars purchased by the City are some of the best environmental models available on the market. As the city replaces its older vehicles, it aims to build a fleet comprised 100% of green cars.

Regional Information Sources

www.miljofordon.se; information portal on green vehicles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malm%C3%B6

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Stockholm has the highest percentage of clean vehicles in Europe. Not only are its City fleets well on the way to being 100% clean by 2010, but thanks to City and federal incentives the citizens of Stockholm are also going green at a fast rate, with 30,000 vehicles or 5% of all vehicles now either hybrid or using biofuels. Clean cars including low-CO2 vehicles represented 39 percent in Stockholm in 2008. Alternatively By removing market barriers, the City has helped create a boom in the sales of ethanol, hybrid and biogas cars. The City’s commitment to expanding the use of biofuels has had profound effect on CO2 emissions – for example, the use of E5 has reduced more than 100,000 tons CO2 annually. Since 1994 the City of Stockholm has run a Clean Vehicle Project through the Environment and Health Protection Administration.

A wide range of methods have been used, such as: market incentives, dissemination and awareness-raising (newsletters, seminars etc), joint procurement, investment support, infrastructure development and use of environmental criteria in procurement. The City Council has ordered that Stockholm’s administrations and companies shall, except in special cases, always procure clean vehicles and be fully compensated for the additional costs of acquiring clean vehicles. The world’s first ethanol hybrid buses are tested in Stockholm. A fleet of 6 ethanol hybrid buses and a reference ethanol bus is running in Stockholm until 2011. Behind the pilot project are Scania, Stockholm Public Transport Authority and Swebus, the bus operator. If you are in Stockholm, please chose line 172 and you will get an opportunity to try this technology!

Fuelling Infrastructure:

Stockholm’s first biogas fuelling stations were subsidized, a co-operation then started with a gas company that agreed to set up more stations. Now Stockholm has 150 fuelling stations with renewable fuels, out of a possible 200 in the region. In Sweden, 1,100 stations out of a total of 3,800 offer renewable fuels.

• 85 % of fuelling stations in Stockholm sell alternative fuels
• 70 % of fuelling stations in the Stockholm region sell alternative fuels

In 1998 Stockholm introduced E10 (10 % ethanol blend in petrol) at several fueling stations. This fuel quality was later prohibited by EUs fuel quality directive. Instead E5 (5% ethanol in petrol) was introduced, which was a success that spread all over Sweden, and subsequently to other EU-countries. The so called Biogas Highway connects Stockholm with Göteborg via biogas fuelling stations along the E20 Highway (500 km) enabling fleets of vehicles that run on biogas in these areas to travel between the two cities. A second objective is to connect Stockholm with the cities located along the E18/E20 Highways in a circle around the lake Mälaren (which is the third largest lake in Sweden).

Regional/Local Support Instruments for Clean Vehicles:

Purchase Prices Rebates

Clean Vehicles in Stockholm has administered rebates on purchases of clean vehicles within the framework of various projects, including:

• 1993-2000: purchase price rebates for ca 70 electric cars in the City of Stockholm fleet, in cooperation with KFB (The Swedish Transport & Communications Research Board)
• ZEUS Project (1996-2000): Purchase price rebates ca 250 vehicles in the City of Stockholm fleet
• National funds for local governments (LIP) allocated to Clean Vehicles in Stockholm in 2000-2003: purchase price rebates for ca 300 newly-introduced vehicles in the City of Stockholm fleet, plus some external vehicles.
• Trendsetter Project (2001-2005): Purchase price rebates for 30 percent of additional cost compared to equivalent gasoline or diesel vehicle. Support to City of Stockholm fleet an external vehicles.
• National climate funds for local governments KLIMP (2005- 2007): Rebate for 30 percent of additional cost excluding VAT, maximised to 18,500 SEK for transport vehicles and 10,000 SEK for passenger vehicles. Focus on taxis but also available to delivery firms, carpools, service cars and rental cars.
• European Project, BiogasMax (2006-2010): Contribution to companies who invest in at least three biogas vehicles. Purchase price rebate is 30 percent of the additional cost of the vehicles, maximum 18,500 SEK for transport vehicles and 10,000 SEK for passenger vehicles. Rebate expected to be given to 24 vehicles in the City of Stockholm fleet and 84 external vehicles.
• European Project, BEST (2006-2010): Rebate for 35 percent of additional purchase cost (5,000-8,000 SEK/car) for 100 ethanol vehicles in the City of Stockholm fleet.

Test drives (2000-2001 and 2002-2005)

Companies are offered the opportunity to test drive clean vehicles for one week at no cost, enabling drivers to become more accustomed to clean vehicles and helping companies determine whether or not clean vehicles meet their demands for functionality, performance, security and price. Test driving offerings to a target group of fleet managers and CEOs in a selected group of companies.

Green procurement, City of Stockholm (2004-)

The City of Stockholm uses environmental performance criteria when procuring goods or services that include transports. All agreements signed by the City since 2004 include environmental performance requirements.

Bonus system for clean vehicles in special transportation services (Feb 2004-)

Clean vehicles used in special transportation services (such as transport for disabled persons) receive an extra bonus of 0.9 SEK/km (prior to 2006, 0.45 SEK/km) if they use at least 80 percent renewable fuels.

Separate taxi queue for clean vehicles (December 2005-)

The airport authority at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport wants to help consumers choose clean taxis and has given clean vehicles the priority in the airport waiting queue. This reduces waiting times for taxi companies, enabling them to conduct more journeys and increase profits. In 2008, it was decided that all taxis visiting the airport must be clean vehicles in 2010, although the definition of clean vehicles has not been finalised.

Free residential and commercial/utility parking for clean vehicles (2005-2008)

Clean vehicle owners (using the City of Stockholm’s definition of a clean vehicle) can apply for free residential and commercial/utility street parking.

• Residential parking: Registered owners of clean vehicles are eligible for free residential parking in the city centre, reducing their costs by up to 40 SEK/day or 600 SEK/30-day period.
• Commercial/utility parking permits: Company service vehicle permits for parking near temporary workplaces are eligible for free parking. Such permits otherwise cost 8500 SEK/year.
• Commercial/utility parking mini: This permit is available to those whose work requires parking and re-parking several times per day in different locations and costs 1200 SEK/30-day period for conventional vehicles. For clean vehicles, this charge is waived.

Exemption from congestion charges (Jan-July 2006 and Aug 2007-July 2012)

A congestion charge trial was produced between January and July 2006 and made permanent in August 2007. The charge affects Swedish-registered vehicles entering and leaving Stockholm’s inner city Monday-Friday between 06:30 – 18:29. The maximum charge is 60 SEK per day and there is no congestion charge on weekends or national holidays. Vehicles driven with biogas, ethanol, electricity, synthetic gas, methane, methanol, natural gas or hydrogen are exempt until 2012. There will be no exemption from congestion charges for cars sold and registered after the 1 January 2009. Alternatively fuelled vehicles registered before 1 January 2009 will exempt until 30 June 2012.

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives:

The Region/City of Stockholm has initiated or participated in several joint procurements of clean vehicles:

National procurement of electric vehicles

Initiated by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (NUTEK) and led by an executive committee chaired by Stockholm MFO (Equipment and Supply Service Organisation). Pre-study in 1992 and invitation for tender in 1994, awarded to Renault. 20 Renault Clio were delivered in 1995, 100 more were supplied in 1996 primarily to municipal buyers in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

ZEUS (1997-1998)

Five European cities in the European project ZEUS jointly procured 200 electric cars and succeeded in dramatically reducing costs from SEK 320,000 to SEK 160,000.

Ford Focus (1998-2000)

In 1998 the City of Stockholm among others organised a joint procurement of a car that should be able to use E85 fuel (FlexiFuel Vehicle, FFV). A list of requirements on the car was developed by a large number of buyers. An information campaign about the FFV got more buyers interested and resulted in an interest to buy a total of 4,000 cars. This lead to the introduction of Ford Focus FFV to the Swedish market in late 2001.

Hybrid, biogas and ethanol cars (2003)

The procurement resulted in competitive offerings on alternatively fuelled vehicles.

Network “At least one clean vehicle” (2003)

Members were companies in Stockholm that have at least one clean vehicle in their fleet. The initiative was taken by the Swedish Television and was strongly linked to Trendsetter activities. A press conference was arranged where the director of the Swedish Television as well as four other managers signed an agreement to “join the Trendsetter project” as well as the Clean Vehicle Network committing them to purchase at least oneclean vehicle.

New procurement announced by the Clean Vehicles project in 2006

Agreement with Volkswagen in 2007 to launch its Caddy model in FlexiFuel format.

The city also arranged seminars and information activities in order to encourage city administrations, especially procurement officers, to choose clean vehicles. Furthermore, a test fleet of clean cars was set up together with the car industry. This way, potential company buyers, including procurement officers could try different types and models of clean cars free of charge.

Regional Information Sources:

www.stockholm.se/miljobilar ; all information related to the clean vehicle initative of the City of Stockholm

www.ethanolbus.com; information page on the testing of ethanol busses in the City of Stockholm

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Växjö is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 55,600 inhabitants in 2005

Fuelling Infrastructure

According to the European Environmental Technology Atlas there are about 8 E85 public refuelling stations located only in the City of Örebro.

Regional/Local Joint Procurement Initiatives

The municipality of Växjö took part in the joint procurement of FFVs with the aim to actively support the introduction of alternatively fuelled vehicles.

Regional Information Sources

www.vaxjo.se

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4xj%C3%B6