Historical Data: Alternative Transportation Fuels (ATF) and Alternative Fueled Vehicles (AFV)
Release Date: May 2008
Next Release Date: May 2009
This page provides links to historical data on alternative fueled vehicles in use and alternate transportation fuel consumption.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects data on the following items: 1) the number of alternative fueled vehicles (AFVs) supplied each year; i.e., new AFVs and conventionally fueled vehicles converted to operate on an alternate fuel; 2) for a limited set of fleet user groups, the number of AFVs in use and the amount of alternate transportation fuel consumed. The user groups surveyed are: Federal and State governments, alternate fuel providers, and transit companies.
EIA combines these two sets of data and other external information to develop an estimate of AFVs for the remaining users, municipal governments and private fleets. The result is a set of AFV supply and use data that represents all AFVs in the United States.
Three sets of AFV data tables are available: 1)AFVs Supplied; 2) AFVs in Use; and 3) Consumption of alternative transportation fuels (ATFs).
In previous data years, data on ATF refueling sites (formerly shown in Table 5) was obtained from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/fuels/stations_counts.html).
The alternative and replacement transportation fuels covered in the reports include: biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), electricity, ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/propane”.
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Previous publications for Alternatives to Traditional Fuels for years 1994 through 1996 are located on the Reports and Publications web page for alternative transportation fuels and alternative fueled vehicles: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/reports/reportsD.asp?type=Alternative%20Fuel