Emission factor from Miljødirektoratet

Heavy vehicles - petrol

Norway · Combustion · Any year

Each kilometre counts as 0.556 kg CO₂e. Miljødirektoratet gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.556kgCO₂e/km

Fossil only · CO₂ only

One value, for any year

Miljødirektoratet sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2023

Load
Not stated
Vehicle size
Not stated
Distance band
Any distance, not banded
Cabin class
Not applicable on the road
Region
Norway NO
Boundary
Combustion
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · Miljødirektoratet terms

Where 0.556 comes from

Published as one number

Miljødirektoratet prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.

Reporting this kilometre under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 4 0.556

You pay a carrier to bring goods in, or to move them between your own sites. All of it goes in upstream transport.

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Transport › Road freight · Norway · per km · Average

Combustion · Fossil only

Boundary
Combustion
Fuel combustion
GWP method
None: the value counts CO₂ alone
CO₂ weighs 1 in every IPCC report, so no GWP applies
CO₂e basis
Fossil only
All of it is CO₂

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of 1 km, from the oil well to the end of the trip.

  1. Vehicle operation

    Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load

    Included0.556
  2. Effect at altitude

    Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.

    Not applicable on the road
  3. Your record

    1 km in your records. The factor is per km.

    = 0.556

Outside this boundary

  • Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
  • Building the vehicle
  • Roads and depots

This factor counts the fuel the vehicle burns, not the vehicle itself or the infrastructure it runs on. Some libraries price building the vehicle as a factor of its own.

Gases in vehicle operation

Basis: Fossil only

  • Fossil CO₂0.556

The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.

From Miljødirektoratet's record to a comparable factor

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About this factor

From Miljødirektoratet

Tabellen gjelder gjennomsnittskjøretøy, og skiller ikke mellom nye og gamle kjøretøyer eller ulike størrelser. Utslippsfaktorene har ikke tatt høyde for innblanding av biodiesel og biobensin i drivstoffet. *inkludert kaldstart og fordamping. Plug-in hybrid personbiler er ikke inkludert.

Source and licence

Publisher
Miljødirektoratet (Norwegian Environment Agency)
Published
12 March 2026
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Credit it with this lineMiljødirektoratet, Omregning fra energivare til utslipp (kilde: National Inventory Document 2025)
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Cite this factor

Miljødirektoratet, Omregning fra energivare til utslipp (kilde: National Inventory Document 2025). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/miljodirektoratet/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-miljodirektorate-tunge_kjrety_bensin-no-km-combustion-b1149efc/?v=efv1-3cc5b0a56abbf006c41a0822775cb0bb

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