Following our recent article “Should delivery vehicles go electric in the UAE” we were asked to help define what the 16,000 tonnes of CO2 produced does to our environment.
Based on the fact that 15,000 petrol delivery motorcycles in the UAE produce more than 16,500 tonnes per year, this article helps show in consumer terms the affects this has to our environment and how together, we can make the change.
WHAT DOES 16,560 TONNES OF CO2 EQUATE TO?
An area equivalent to 42x the size of Downtown Dubai! Over 21,000 acres of forest could have been preserved.
3,440 Passenger vehicles driven for one year or 64,694,974 kms driven by an average passenger vehicle | 2,066,077,603 number of smartphones charged |
2,743 homes’ electricity use for one year | 37,507 barrels of oil consumed |
Carbon sequestered by 272,831 tree seedlings grown for 10 years | 21,157 acres of forests could have been protected in one year |
We want to help visualise the alarming statistics and these figures are just for the UAE! Within the GCC these figures would be enough to cover the landmass of tens of miles of desert (actual volumes of motorcycles in use in the GCC can’t be obtained).
Many companies aren’t focused on the environmental savings or their CO2 footprint (and there are much worse pollutants within this ‘cocktail of damage’), understandably so. Many look at the cost implications of switching to electric or other modes of transportation.
So, if we were to show you how you can save the cost of a delivery fleet within just one year, without negatively affecting your budgets, would this be of interest? This is of course for you to decide and action.
Please do reach out and speak to us, if you’d like to arrange a meeting to discuss, please contact us here for an appointment.
Thank you for reading,
Adam Ridgway
CEO, ONE MOTO
