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Updated data reveals regional leaders in cuts to UK freight carbon emissions

Northgate Vehicle Hire has updated research released by the UK Government earlier this year focusing on emissions from Light and Heavy Goods Vehicles (LGVs and HGVs), revealing how how emissions have changed in each region — and the number of electric vans needed to reach carbon neutrality.
Updated data reveals regional leaders in cuts to UK freight carbon emissions
Electric truck - MAN TGX. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

The study tracks freight-related CO₂ output across all UK regions and calculates how many electric vans would be required locally to offset those emissions entirely.

Latest Year-on-Year Changes (2022 → 2023):

    Wales: 2.15bn → 2.07bn kg CO₂ (↓ 80m) – EV vans: 144 → 138

    Scotland: 4.22bn → 4.13bn (↓ 90m) – EV vans: 282 → 275

    Northern Ireland: 990m → 979m (↓ 11m) – EV vans: 66 → 65

    North East England: 1.39bn → 1.37bn (↓ 23m) – EV vans: 93 → 91

    North West England: 4.80bn → 4.67bn (↓ 124m) – EV vans: 320 → 312

    East Midlands: 4.49bn → 4.38bn (↓ 112m) – EV vans: 299 → 292

    Yorkshire and the Humber: 4.33bn → 4.23bn (↓ 101m) – EV vans: 289 → 282

    West Midlands: 4.73bn → 4.60bn (↓ 135m) – EV vans: 316 → 307

    East of England: 5.47bn → 5.38bn (↓ 98m) – EV vans: 365 → 358

    Inner London: 660m → 647m (↓ 14m) – EV vans: 44 → 43

    Outer London: 1.59bn → 1.53bn (↓ 55m) – EV vans: 106 → 102

    South East England: 6.65bn → 6.48bn (↓ 179m) – EV vans: 444 → 432

    South West England: 4.11bn → 4.05bn (↓ 65m) – EV vans: 275 → 270

The updated research shows that every region in the country recorded a decrease in CO₂ emissions in 2023, but that, currently, South East England remains the highest emitter, producing over three times Wales’s total, despite a 179 million kilogram reduction.

A transition to electric vans at scale, as shown above, would neutralise regional freight emissions entirely.

For additional information:

Northgate Vehicle Hire

Understanding CO₂ emissions and the path to carbon neutrality in UK freight

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