{"id":14404,"date":"2020-04-29T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2020-04-29T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:44:25","slug":"should-more-of-us-be-driving-hybrid-or-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/should-more-of-us-be-driving-hybrid-or-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Should more of us be driving hybrid or electric cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of fuel-efficient hybrid or electric cars is also seeing an exponential rise in recent years. In our latest survey of consumer opinions and actions around climate change, 27% of respondents now claim to drive fuel efficiently or drive a fuel-efficient car. <\/p>\n<p>There are currently around 100,000 electric vehicles on the roads throughout the UK, but it\u2019s highly likely that we\u2019ll see millions of them over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The government has initiated plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-51366123\">ban petrol and diesel cars<\/a> by 2035, which was recently brought forward from its initial target of 2040 &#8211; meaning that car manufacturers are now entirely focussed on creating more environmentally-friendly vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>However, of those we surveyed, affordability presents a significant barrier to many; 39% of respondents said they didn\u2019t think they could afford to purchase a hybrid or electric car. <\/p>\n<p>Affordability is indeed a key issue when it comes to anything sustainable. If we\u2019re going to make it mainstream, we need to make sure these technologies are accessible to the majority of the population. <\/p>\n<p>However, economies of scale will come into play over the next few years, and this increased take-up will begin to drive down the price of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, many of us are starting to look at alternative methods of transport, whether it\u2019s taking the bus or train to work, walking to the local supermarket, or cycling.<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking back on our blog for more insights on climate change attitudes and opinions, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/white-paper-march-2020-sign-up\/\">download the full research paper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The use of fuel-efficient hybrid or electric cars is also seeing an exponential rise in recent years. In our latest survey of consumer opinions and actions around climate change, 27% of respondents now claim to drive fuel efficiently or drive a fuel-efficient car. There are currently around 100,000 electric vehicles on the roads throughout the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14407,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions\/14407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eco2solar.co.uk\/hq-eco2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}