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Company cars cut CO2 output by more than 40% in four years - ALD Automotive
12th October 2007
Company cars are emitting more than 40% less carbon dioxide today than they were four years ago as fleets increasingly turn to low emission vehicles and reduce their annual mileages, according to analysis of vehicles added to ALD Automotive’s 47,000-strong fleet of 47,000 vehicles during the last five years.
Company cars delivered in January 2003 averaged 166.87 g/km of CO2; average annual mileage was 23,782 miles; and the average amount of CO2 emitted clocking up journeys was 6.43 tonnes per vehicle a year. By August 2007 company cars joining the fleet averaged 154.22 g/km of CO2 (7.6% less); average annual mileage had dropped to 15,139 - a cut of more than a third (36.4%) or 8,643 miles - with the amount of CO2 emitted averaging 3.79 tonnes, a reduction of 41.17% over 54 months.
The environmental impact of one person flying from London Heathrow to New York’s JFK Airport is calculated to be 0.61 tonnes of CO2. Therefore, the CO2 savings made by company car drivers taking delivery of a vehicle from ALD Automotive represent the equivalent of four fewer flights across the Atlantic by each person annually. Extrapolated across the UK’s company car fleet of 1.2 million vehicles [HM Revenue & Customs 2005/06 figure] this equates to a reduction of over three million tonnes of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere each year by company cars alone.
ALD Automotive is working towards obtaining international environmental management standard ISO 140001, and has recently added Honda Civic Hybrids to its pool fleet for use by customers as interim vehicles.
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