The drive for green machines
By Thomas Lane2021-04-15T05:00:00+01:00 Contractors have long been the dirty boys of the building industry and at the back of the field in the race towards net zero. But things are changing on construction sites, and some of the biggest polluters are taking significant steps to reduce their carbon footprint Last year sales of petrol and diesel cars slumped by 39% and 55% respectively while sales of electric cars leapt by 185% to take 6.6% of the market, up from 1.6% in 2019. This transformation is being driven by a combination of the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 a...
Source: building.co.uk