Corporate Car Club
Cutting the carbon: how CCC can help you reduce vehicle emmissions.
How CCC can help you reduce vehicle emissions.
The most obvious step towards bringing down carbon
emissions is to reduce the number of cars on the roads.
(According to the Department of Transport, around 3 million
of the UK's cars are company cars). As a member of CCC,
you'll be embracing a car-sharing scheme that helps to reduce
car numbers and cut back carbon emissions.
The next step is to make sure the cars we use are as ecologically efficient
as possible. All our cars have a low CO2 output - less than 120g/km. One of
the cars we've chosen for our fleet is the pioneering Toyota Prius. The Prius
features the Hybrid Synergy Drive which combines an electric motor with a
petrol engine. The result is a fuel-efficient car with significantly lower
carbon emissions.
The Prius produces just 104g of CO2 for every kilometre driven, compared to a typical fleet car which produces 167g per kilometre. Over higher mileages this amounts to a significant difference: |
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| Fleet car covering 50,000 miles produces: | 13.4 tonnes CO2 |
| Toyota Prius covering 50,000 miles produces: | 8.4 tonnes CO2 |
| A potential reduction of: | 5.0 tonnes CO2 |
Put it another way, a tree absorbs around 14kg of CO2 each year, so the saving above equals the work done by a forest of 357 trees*. Multiply this reduction across a fleet of 10 cars and the environmental benefits really begin to add up.
*Figures supplied by Toyota