A draft plan, which was approved unanimously yesterday (Monday, January 13) will now go out for public consultation.

Nearly every vehicle currently on the roads of Nottingham will need to be replaced within just eight years if the city council is to meet its own zero-carbon target.

Nottingham City Council hopes to be the first in the UK to become carbon neutral and has now produced a plan on how it intends to do this by 2028.

Several actions are planned, including having all domestic heating from renewable energy or low-carbon sources, enforcing energy efficiency standards, further public transport improvements and expanding local energy creation.

The council already has a growing fleet of its own electric cars, but details are scant about how the council plans to facilitate a move away from petrol and diesel engines for regular motorists, and it has admitted that the scale of the change needed is ‘enormous’.

A draft plan, which was approved unanimously yesterday (Monday, January 13) will now go out for public consultation.

On the issue of removing petrol and diesel engines (Known as internal combustion engines or ICEs) it says: “To achieve the 2028 carbon neutrality ambition, it will be necessary to almost entirely replace existing fossil-fuel-based Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles with ULEVs (ultra-low-emission vehicles).

“Recent research suggests that the lifetime carbon emissions of ULEVs are half those of a conventional vehicle, with more efficient electric vehicles saving on the carbon produced in the batteries in just two or three years.”

As well as an action plan, the council also passed its own Carbon Neutral Charter, which expands on the council’s green ambitions.

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