Recent government figures show that a quarter of the UK’s carbon
emissions are produced by the transport sector, meaning tackling
levels of CO2 released through travel must be a priority for
policymakers. ALD Automotive’s study into company car emissions is
therefore welcome news, as the fleet management and leasing company
found that the CO2 output from the company cars it provides has
fallen by 40 per cent in four years.
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The fall has come about, ALD reported, thanks to a twin-pronged
approach of encouraging drivers into lower-emitting cars, and
reducing business mileages.
The findings are based on ALD’s own 47,000-strong fleet, and,
extrapolated across the UK company car parc, the saved carbon per
year amounts to some 3m tonnes, ALD calculated – although whether
all company cars are as green as ALD’s is open to question.
The lessor reported that the CO2 emissions of a car delivered in
January 2003 averaged 166.9 g/km; by August 2007 this had fallen to
154.2 g/km, a reduction of 7.6 per cent.
Likewise, average annual mileage fell from 23,782 miles to 15,139
between the same dates, meaning over a third fewer miles were
travelled by drivers in ALD’s cars.
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By GlobalDataBoth figures have fallen sharply, especially since February 2006
which marked a “sea-change” moment, ALD said.
ALD Automotive marketing director David Yates said: “We have
tracked a remarkable transformation in our fleet in terms of both
the type of company cars increasingly chosen by businesses and
their drivers, and the amount of mileage clocked up.”
The move to a greener fleet has benefits both for the environment
and for companies’ bottom line, ALD pointed out, with
lower-emitting vehicles subject to lower benefit-in-kind taxation
rates.
