15% of all SUVs in Russia are diesel powered

According to the AUTOSTAT agency, there are almost 2.5 million passenger cars with diesel engines in Russia (as of mid-2021). This is 5.4% of the total passenger car fleet in our country. Meanwhile, in some segments the share of diesel vehicles is higher than the average for the fleet.

This indicator is the highest among pickups - 72% of such vehicles are equipped with diesel engines. But since the segment of pickups itself is very small, and then quantitatively it amounts to only 209 thousand units. The opposite situation is observed in crossovers and SUVs, where diesel accounts for only 15%. But in absolute terms, it is just over 1.7 million units.

In three other segments, the share of diesel vehicles is higher than the fleet average. So, among F-class cars, this is almost every eighth (12.2%; 18 thousand units), and in the MPV segment - about every fourteenth (7.3%; 94 thousand units). For E-class cars, this is every fifteenth unit (6.6%; 99 thousand units).