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CO2 levels fall to all-time low at Fleet Alliance

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The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is the most popular ULEV in the UK market

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28 April 2015

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The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) can be driven as an electric vehicle meaning good fuel economy.

Fleet Alliances reinforces its green message

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  • Introduced a number of new green initiatives including an EV awareness programme
  • Two new examples of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf, have been added to the Fleet Alliance fleet for testing and review purposes.
  • Provision of two free-to-use electric car charging points in the visitors’ car park at its new offices, Skypark, just outside Glasgow city centre. Skypark landlords have paid for the installation while Fleet Alliance is paying the ongoing electricity charges.
  • Working with the Energy Saving Trust to offer clients best practice advice for hybrid, electric and grey fleet vehicles, reviewing fleet costs and eco-driver training.

CO2 emissions have fallen to an all-time low of 116g/km per vehicle for all new cars ordered in the first quarter of 2015, Fleet Alliance has confirmed.

For the year to the end of March, some 28% of all new cars ordered across the 18,000-strong fleet have been sub 100g/km of CO2, with 81% of them less than 129g/km, as the green message hits home.

In a league table of the cleanest cars, the top ten models on the company fleet now all have carbon emissions of 95g/km or less.

The greenest car on the fleet with emissions of just 44g/km is the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, now officially the UK’s most popular ULEV, according to the latest sales figures from the SMMT for the first quarter of 2015.

Fleet Alliance, winner of the Best Small Fleet Leasing Award, has been continually advising its customers of the importance of setting fleet policies that encourage the take-up of low carbon-emitting cars to capitalise on savings in tax, National Insurance and fuel costs.

Fleet Alliance managing director, Martin Brown, said;

“Carbon emissions are falling across our whole fleet and so far this year are down to an average of 116g/km, the lowest we have seen to date.

“This will continue to fall as clients increasingly follow our advice and switch to greener cars. This has the effect of not only cutting their carbon footprints but reducing their tax and fuel bills too.

“At the same time, vehicle manufacturers are playing their part by introducing new models with ever-lower carbon emissions across all popular model ranges.

“And the fact that the cleanest two models on our fleet are now both hybrids shows they have a real role to play as a key part of the fleet mix. Electric vehicles are for the future but hybrids are definitely for the here and now.”

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