The University of Dundee has invested almost £70,000 in three new electric vans, an electric car and 12 electric bikes in order to cut its carbon footprint.
Audi’s research facility in Dresden has claimed to have developed high-quality diesel fuel which is climate neutral from water, CO2 and renewable energy.
Cars being sold today are nearly seven grammes of CO2/Km below the European Union’s 2015 target, according to provisional data published by the EU Environment Agency.
The European Parliament has endorsed proposals to limit the amount of crop-based biofuels used in transport to 7%, down from the current 10% by 2020 target.
The Liberal Democrats are aiming to stimulate at least £100 billion of private investment in the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure and want a third of the UK’s energy demand to be met from renewable sources by 2020.
According to a report by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Würtemberg (ZSW), more than 740,000 electric cars were on the road so far in 2015.
