Reduce corporate carbon footprint with a fleet of electric vehicles

At Ernst & Young, they have implemented several mobility solutions to change its corporate mindset.

The company started on a programme to encourage their employees to use their cars less frequently. This initiative includes flexible working hours, and the ability to work from any of the firm’s 12 offices throughout Belgium. This holistic mobility approach comprise first class train travel and electric vehicles, with the hope to reduce average carbon emissions to 100g/km by 2015.

Previously, the company operates a fleet of 1,100 cars in Belgium and already has a core CO2 of 122g/km per car.

To continue on the effort, employees can take first class train tickets for 60 days during the year under a rail lease scheme. But they are not to use their cars on any of these days and at no extra cost to themselves.

Employees’ driving behaviours are monitored in a series of eco-driving courses to encourage employees to drive more frugally and use less fuel.

Ghislain Vanfraechem, who is heading up the project comments, “We have ambitious targets to reduce our corporate carbon footprint,” he said. “We want to have an average CO2 of 112g/km by 2012 and to be down to 100g/km by 2015. And while we will achieve that generally by selecting new cars with lower carbon emissions, it has also been necessary to change the corporate mindset.”

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