City of York Council to introduce cleaner vehicles

City of York Council is set to transform its fleet to low or zero emission vehicles to help meet its carbon neutral target by 2030.

The council will be taking a report outlining the full details to an Executive meeting on 19 March.

This includes reducing the carbon emissions from the council’s fleet (of 535 vehicles under 3.5 tonnes) by a third.

The fleet is valued at £15.3 million and includes 180 vehicles that are under 3.5 tonnes and 153 which are currently due to be replaced over the next three years. Together they emit a total of 1,763 tonnes of CO2 every year.

Cllr Paula Widdowson, Executive Member for Environment and Climate Change, said: “We’re committed to creating a greener and cleaner city. Key to achieving this is our ambition to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2030. Introducing a new green fleet to our waste, highways and housing teams will go a long way to achieving this goal”

Cllr Andy D’Agorne Deputy Leader of the Council and Executive Member for Transport, at City of York Council, said: “We want to set an example within the city and lead the move of commercial vehicles to ones with zero carbon emissions at the tailpipe.  We want this to be the catalyst for other fleet operators within the city to start to change their fleets to zero emission vehicles.