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The Department for Transport has just released the vehicle licensing statistics from 2008, which make interesting reading.
It states there are 34.2 million licensed vehicles in Great Britain at the end of 2008. Bearing in mind this is all vehicles including HGVs and motorbikes it is still an amazing figure.
It's one of those statistics that is often quoted in relation to how many times round the Earth they would stretch if end-on-end or reaching the moon. I have no idea to the answers of these questions but I'm sure someone out there could work it out.
Among the other figures of particular interest is the continued expansion of diesel in the car market, now up to 43% of vehicles registered. I'm old enough to remember my family's first diesel car, which was noisy, uncomfortable and sluggish.
How things have changed in the last 15 years or so.
With almost half of new cars powered by diesel it continues to be a fuel which is likely to dominate the motor industry for some time to come.
With all of the talk this week about electric vehicles, diesel is the fuel that we as fleet managers will benchmark any alternative against. This means that it likely to be some time before any alternative fuel can satisfy the majority of applications required by the average fleet.
Whilst I applaud the steps being taken to introduce greener technologies into the motor industry, the reality is that currently it is more about increasing the efficiency of what we have already got (petrol and diesel) rather than any viable alternatives.
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