2040: Be prepared
29 September
The Government has pledged to end the production of diesel and petrol vehicles from 2040.
How can you start to prepare?
- Driver training
Investing in training your drivers to drive smoothly and anticipate other drivers’ actions will help your fuel go further.
- Tax
The government has changed tax brackets to make it easy to offset the purchase of a new, green vehicle against your business costs through the 100pc First Year Allowance.
- Government grants
Talking of savings, the Government is also offering grants to encourage you to buy green technology, reducing your business’ operating costs.
- Use the latest tech
Vehicles with technology designed to help the driver will help fuel economy, ultimately making your fleet more environmentally friendly.
- Stop grey fleet usage
You have no control over your fuel economy if your drivers use their own cars to build up your fleet.
- Wait for the latest round of electric vehicles
New models are on the way that will eliminate range anxiety (they can travel 300 miles)
- Be realistic
It’s unlikely that you will be able to make all these changes straight away; focus on one or two and then work upwards.
Of course, you can also start to mitigate your CO₂ emissions through our product, EcoPoint, which has so far planted 2.3 million trees on behalf of our customers.
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