The main reason why car owners decide to install LPG equipment (LPG) is the desire to reduce fuel costs. True, the times when propane-butane at gas stations cost half as much as gasoline are already in the past (unless you compare the price of LPG to premium grades such as A-100). However, some savings on gas fuel are still possible.
Analysts of the Institute for Automotive Market Research studied the statistics of passenger car conversions to "gas" in August 2025, and are ready to share the results of this study.
In total, during the past month, HBO officially appeared (only those facts of re-equipment registered by the service centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are taken into account) on 1,161 passenger cars. This is 9.6% less than in July 2025, and 47.2% less than a year ago, in August 2024.
About fuel: This year began with price tags at gas stations in the "gas" window at about 35 UAH/l. However, the price then rose rapidly, as new excise duty rates came into effect, and drivers were buying a propane-butane mixture for an average of 37 UAH/l. After the winter peak, the retail price of LPG gradually decreased, and is now about 34.2 UAH/l.
Among the brands that most often featured gas-cylinder equipment, Toyota is number one on the list. This manufacturer is in no hurry to take its place among electric cars, to modernize its time-tested internal combustion engines (as well as many other structural elements of its cars), so among the models of this Japanese manufacturer there are still many options with engines without direct gasoline injection and turbocharging, on which it is relatively easy and inexpensive to install LPG, as in the 80s of the last century. Also at the top of the list are Jeep and Hyundai — mostly versions coming from the USA, and also equipped with "atmospheric" engines. This time, VAZ still managed to stay in the top ten, but ZAZ/Daewoo, which together with the aforementioned brand once led this rating, is already outside this list.
Among individual models, the first position was shared by the Skoda Octavia and Nissan Rogue, with the same result of 37 installations each. The picture is similar with the next participants — Jeep Cherokee and Hyundai Tucson, by the same principle they share second place. Third — Mitsubishi Outlander.
In general, the popularity of converting cars to run on two types of fuel (factory gasoline and additional gas cylinder equipment for a propane-butane mixture) in Ukraine is primarily determined by the price of "autogas" at gas stations, as well as the volume of newly arrived cars from the USA, some of which still have "aspirated" engines. Furthermore, due to the steady growth in the popularity of electric cars, it is unlikely that we should expect an increase in the pace of LPG installations in the future.
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