Eficiencia Energética de Vehículos Livianos en Chile Resultados de 2024 y 2025

This report by the Centro de Movilidad Sostenible monitors the impact of the Energy Efficiency Law's light vehicle standards in Chile during 2024 and 2025. It analyzes corporate fuel economy targets, the growth of plug-in vehicles, and the resulting reductions in fuel demand and CO2 emissions.

• The Energy Efficiency Law requires vehicle importers to meet minimum corporate fuel economy targets, set at 18.8 km/lge in 2025 and 22.8 km/lge in 2027. To facilitate compliance, the law provides an incentive for plug-in vehicles by multiplying their performance by three in the calculations.
• Between the first two years of implementation, average vehicle performance increased by 8% (from 15.7 to 16.9 km/lge) and emissions decreased by 3%. These improvements resulted in an estimated reduction of 9.1 million liters of gasoline demand and 21.4 ktCO2 in emissions.
• The supply of electric vehicles grew by 200%, and the average price of the 10 best-selling models decreased by 26%. However, the market share of electric vehicles remained stable at 2.2%, meaning the slight 0.6 percentage point increase in plug-in vehicle sales between 2024 and 2025 was driven exclusively by plug-in hybrids.
• Electric vehicles are 70% more economical per kilometer than internal combustion vehicles, with estimated charging costs of CLP$29 per kilometer compared to CLP$96 for combustion vehicles.
• In 2025, importers achieved a performance of 19.3 km/lge using plug-in multipliers, exceeding the 18.8 km/lge standard; without this incentive, the real sales performance was 16.9 km/lge. Only 45% of importers complied with the standards for 2024 and 2025, and the number of importers decreased from 29 to 20 by the second year.

APA

CMS, C. (2025). Eficiencia Energética de Vehículos Livianos en Chile Resultados de 2024 y 2025. Centro de Movilidad Sostenible. https://cmsostenible.org/reporte-de-monitoreo/

Chicago

CMS, Comunicaciones. Eficiencia Energética de Vehículos Livianos en Chile Resultados de 2024 y 2025. Centro de Movilidad Sostenible, 2025. https://cmsostenible.org/reporte-de-monitoreo/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cms2025eficiencia, author = {CMS, Comunicaciones}, title = {{Eficiencia Energética de Vehículos Livianos en Chile Resultados de 2024 y 2025}}, institution = {Centro de Movilidad Sostenible}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://cmsostenible.org/reporte-de-monitoreo/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }