The Fiat Grande Punto Biopower has been handed the award of being best green car of the year, an honour which has been bestowed by Gröna Bilister, The Swedish Association of Green Motorists. The Grande Punto Biopower won the important award for its excellent fuel efficiency, low engine emissions and safety standards. It shared the 2007 award jointly with last year's overall winner, the ethanol-powered Ford Focus FFV.

The Grande Punto Biopower, along with other environmentally-conscious vehicles for sale on the market have received a distinct sales boost since the Swedish government introduced a new incentive scheme on 1st April 2007, worth 10,000 kronors to buyers of this category of vehicle. During May 4,900 new 'green' cars were sold in Sweden, this was a monthly a record. The market's best-selling green car is the locally-manufactured Saab 9-5 Biopower.

Gröna Bilister (The Swedish Association of Green Motorists) was founded in 1994. It is a small non-governmental organisation (1,000 members) and based very much on voluntary work. The aim is to make road transport more friendly to the environment and to promote public transport and bicycling as alternatives, particularly in urban areas.
 

It works closely together with the European Federation for Transport and Environment, T&E, trying to influence the European Union´s policies on exhaust emissions, fuel quality, alternative fuels and the taxation of road transport (internalising external costs).  Domestically it publish an annual report on the environmental performance of new car models and label the best as "a good environmental choice". It also produces guidelines for towns and municipalities on how to integrate transport issues in the local Agenda 21. It make special efforts trying to create car sharing systems in Stockholm and elsewhere.

Another activity is to make state agencies, regional authorities and local communities include more of environmental demands and safety requirements in public procurement of vehicles, fuels and transport services. Gröna Bilister publishes a quarterly magazine, called "Trafik & Miljö" (Transport and the Environment), which is distributed to all members and approximately 1,000 influential people in industry, government, science and the media.