Zixty Car Insurance

Zixty is the only UK based temporary car insurance provider that offers carbon offsetting for free. With a Green Mark certification, Zixty is committed to working towards carbon neutrality as a business, as well as helping consumers reduce their environmental impact.

How does our CO2 offsetting work? Easy.

Buy a Zixty temporary car insurance policy, and there’s the option to offset up to 100 miles of driving CO2 a day for free. We calculate the CO2 emissions for your car and your journeys, and we then offset this through our partnership with Eden Reforestation. Drive carefully and we may offset more CO2 than was emitted – potentially making your driving carbon negative.

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Electric cars take a step forward

Research chemists at BASF are working on next-generation lithium-ion batteries that will have significantly improved energy densities and lower material costs than today’s products. The researchers are hoping that the technology will increase the travelling range of current hybrid vehicles and bring long-distance all-electric cars closer to mainstream production. Company research director Dr Andreas Kreimeyer said: Existing batteries are too expensive, their range is too limited and their weight is still much too high. We must develop innovative concepts for more efficient electric cars if we are to convince potential users.

Only nine car companies achieved EU target for CO2 emissions in 2011

According to figures produced by Clean Green Cars, only nine car companies have achieved the EU target for CO2 emissions of 130g per km set for 2012. However, on a more positive note, overall emissions for new cars fell by over 4 percent.

The nine car companies who achieved emission targets were:

Fiat
Citroen
Toyota
SEAT
Lexus
Mini
Alfa Romeo
Peugeot
Hyundai

Many well known car manufacturers, some of whom promote themselves as green and eco-friendly, failed to meet the EU’s emission targets and do not appear in the list of nine. Another example of ‘greenwash’ aimed at deceiving car buyers where reality is divorced from the truth.

The same principle applies to green car insurance, where companies who promote their ostensibly green credentials have simply bought carbon credits without actually doing anything worthwhile to protect the environment.