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”
