Author: Sal
Eco Friendly Cars Join Council Fleet
Monday, 25th January, 2010 at 11:47 am, Isle of Wight
Green Issues, Island-wide, Isle of Wight Council, News
News reaches us that six new eco-friendly cars have just joined the Isle of Wight Council’s fleet of cars.
Opting for the Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion cars enables to the Council to do their bit to help towards reducing the Island’s CO2 emissions.
The cars will be used by those who carry out home visits and will mean they no longer have to use their own vehicles to travel around the Island.
Isle of Wight Council Cabinet member with responsibility for social care, Dawn Cousins, says the cars will make a big difference to support workers. She said “Currently, support workers use their own cars or public transport to visit clients across the Island. The six new eco-friendly pool cars will provide a very good alternative to this while also cutting down on emissions and fuel costs.”
Peter Bingham, Isle of Wight Council Cabinet member for resources said “The council is looking at investing in further eco friendly pool cars across other services as well as part of its improvement programme which will benefit not only those particular services and staff, but also the people they help as well”
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Let’s hope that unlike a lot of other council vehicles these are not used as personal transport or runabouts out of hours. I’m always seeing council landrovers and vans out and about evenings and weekends. Often they look as if they’re family cars rather than on official business. I hope their mileage is properly monitored and recorded.
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Well it’s one step away from the Maserati I guess.
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Like the Council employee delivering his private egg round in Bembridge during the snow in a Council Landrover?
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Private egg round that really is taking the wotsit. The individual should be named and shamed if the facts are correct. In times when the weather has been terrible bad I dont mind council property being used ie checking on the elderly,delivering meals on wheels, gas bottles etc.Generally using it for private profit is unacceptable.
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Just googled for Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion and got to.
Seems that these are not what I’d call’eco-friendly’. They don’t run on electricity made from renewable sources. They’re just more efficient than other fossil-fuel engines. Which is a step in the right direction, but not truly eco-friendly.
As for Council workers and their vehicles – it’s brilliant that staff are at last being provided with the equipment their employer believes they need to do the job.
Most Council workers who need to drive for their job are forced to spend their own money on providing the vehicle. All fine if you want to own a car anyway, but not fair if you don’t.
So perhaps the most eco-friendly thing about this story is that the workers who use the Council cars might walk, cycle, or get on a bus or train outside work more often than they used to.
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They are the most eco friendly fossil fuel car on the market…I almost bought one, but a bit on the small side
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so not really ‘eco friendly’ – but ‘more eco friendly’
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Nice alloy wheels! Not cheap eh?
I hope they have the council logo on them – so we can spot them being put to unusual/private use!
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Only problem now with the Councils ‘Eco Friendly’ line is that a lot of Islanders are buying 4 x 4s to cope with the appaling road surfaces!
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