There are far more vehicles on Denmark’s roads than ten years ago, figures from Statistics Denmark show.
In 2011, there were 389 vehicles per. 1,000 citizens. Today there are 466.
In addition, people in Denmark also drive more and spend 24 percent more time behind the wheel than ten years ago.
More cars per family
According to Statistics Denmark, one reason for Denmark’s growing engine pool is that more and more families are jumping on board the trend of buying another or even a third car.
The cost of using public transportation also gets the blame.
Trading tanks for a Tesla
Nevertheless, thanks to the increasing tendency to buy electric or hybrid cars, the increasing number of cars has not resulted in a corresponding increase in CO2 emissions.
Air pollution peaked in the 1990s, the data confirm, and the figures today are roughly the same.
Source: The Nordic Page