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Monthly cost of running diesel, biomethane and electric trucks in Finland (Rajalehto & Helo 2025)

What one heavy truck costs a month to run on diesel, on liquid biomethane and on electricity in one Finnish food logistics company's fleet in 2023: leasing, insurance, driver, energy and an emissions cost at the EU carbon price, simulated 1,000 times from the company's own data (Rajalehto and Helo 2025).

Latest value

21,300€/month

Finland: one food logistics company's leased Volvo trucks (64-tonne combinations, 40 pallets) on comparable routes, January 2023–October 2023. Version Journal of Cleaner Production 509, 145524 (2025).

As published

“Table 3 Comparative monthly TCO statistics from simulations for Diesel, LBG, and EVs. Diesel LBG EV Mean Median Variance Standard Deviation Coefficient of Variation Min Max Range Standard Error 2.13E4 2.13E4 6.46E6 2.54E3 0,12 1.53E4 2.88E4 1.35E4 80 1.97E4 1.92E4 7.90E6 2.81E3 0,14 1.50E4 3.95E4 2.45E4 89 1.76E4 1.76E4 1.27E5 3.57E2 0,02 1.63E4 1.94E4 3.05E3 11”

Monthly cost of ownership of diesel, biomethane and electric trucks in Finland (Rajalehto & Helo 2025), Table 3, p. 8. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.

Every value

Monthly cost of running diesel, biomethane and electric trucks in Finland (Rajalehto & Helo 2025), every published value
TruckSideStatisticPeriodValue (€/month)RangeStatus
Diesel truck (Volvo FH6x4)Table 3, column Diesel: Mean 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).DieselTable 3, column Diesel: Mean 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Mean of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column Diesel: Mean 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1021,30015,300 to 28,800final
Diesel truck (Volvo FH6x4)Table 3, column Diesel: Median 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).DieselTable 3, column Diesel: Median 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Median of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column Diesel: Median 2.13E4, Min 1.53E4, Max 2.88E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1021,30015,300 to 28,800final
Liquid biomethane (LBG) truck (Volvo FH6x4)Table 3, column LBG: Mean 1.97E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Biomethane or electricTable 3, column LBG: Mean 1.97E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Mean of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column LBG: Mean 1.97E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1019,70015,000 to 39,500final
Liquid biomethane (LBG) truck (Volvo FH6x4)Table 3, column LBG: Median 1.92E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Biomethane or electricTable 3, column LBG: Median 1.92E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Median of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column LBG: Median 1.92E4, Min 1.50E4, Max 3.95E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1019,20015,000 to 39,500final
Battery electric truck (Volvo FH Electric)Table 3, column EV: Mean 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Biomethane or electricTable 3, column EV: Mean 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Mean of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column EV: Mean 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1017,60016,300 to 19,400final
Battery electric truck (Volvo FH Electric)Table 3, column EV: Median 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Biomethane or electricTable 3, column EV: Median 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).Median of 1,000 simulationsTable 3, column EV: Median 1.76E4, Min 1.63E4, Max 1.94E4 (monthly cost of ownership, 1,000 simulations).2023-01/2023-1017,60016,300 to 19,400final

Where it comes from

Producer
Clara Rajalehto and Petri Helo (University of Vaasa); published in the Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier) · Monthly cost of ownership of diesel, biomethane and electric trucks in Finland (Rajalehto & Helo 2025)
Version
Journal of Cleaner Production 509, 145524 (2025)
File
https://osuva.uwasa.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/a7579096-fe2c-4c0e-8e3c-0b0626d919df/content
Fetched
2026-10-08 (automatically), 2,953,471 bytes
Fingerprint
sha256 8b72c98ad063d41c1ef8912f95943cce8328269670e5fcf476f0d3c03c699b58ETag "33626f1d083b31d305702e3a65b855d7" · Last-Modified Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:03:55 GMT
Copies
No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
Cite the producer
Rajalehto, C. & Helo, P. (2025). Comparing feasibility of low-carbon heavy-duty road freight vehicles. Journal of Cleaner Production 509, 145524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145524

What was done to it

  1. Read the text of the article's version-of-record PDF (sha256 8b72c98ad063…, the copy on the University of Vaasa repository) and found Table 3 and 6 passages of the text and Table 1 word for word on their pages.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/trucks_rajalehto_helo_2025.py · code sha256 079bcf923e6d50ba… · inputs 8b72c98ad063…

  2. Read each truck's column of Table 3 by position (the PDF's text gives the table column by column) and published its mean and median monthly cost of ownership, with the minimum and maximum of the simulations as the range: 6 values, as printed ('2.13E4' is 21,300).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/trucks_rajalehto_helo_2025.py · code sha256 079bcf923e6d50ba… · inputs 8b72c98ad063…

  3. Nothing was subtracted: the diesel, biomethane and electric costs are shown side by side as the table gives them.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/trucks_rajalehto_helo_2025.py · code sha256 079bcf923e6d50ba… · inputs 8b72c98ad063…

What it covers

Geography
Finland: one food logistics company's leased Volvo trucks (64-tonne combinations, 40 pallets) on comparable routes
Basis
Monte Carlo simulation (1,000 runs per truck) of the monthly total cost of ownership from the company's telemetry, leasing contracts and energy prices of January to October 2023, with emissions costed at the EU ETS allowance price. Subsidies are not modelled separately. The currency year is not stated.
Unit
euros per truck per month (€/month)