Council workers clock up millions of fuel miles despite coronavirus restrictions
iOS - Android In total, vehicle use fell by 18 per cent as a result of the pandemic from 12.4m miles in 2019/20 to 10.1m miles last year - equivalent to 21 round trips to the moon or one third of the distance to Mars.However, the use of electric vehicles by the council fell by 29.1 per cent after a record high in 2019/20 while the fall in use of petrol vehicles (26.9 per cent) and diesel vehicles (17.8 per cent) was lower.SLC have said this was because the larger vehicles such as bin lorries continued to be used throughout the pandemic while smaller vehicles such as electric pool cars were "not used as normal".In 2019/20, electric vehicles use by the council hit 152,000 miles - the first time electric vehicles had been used more than petrol.
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