“Since July 2019, we’ve offset over 72 tonnes of CO2 – roughly the same as driving a typical petrol car almost 400,000 miles – or driving around the earth more than 15 times”
At a glance:
🌱Carbon neutral since 2019
🌳We’ve offset the equivalent to planting around 3300-3600 trees
⚡️5 electric teaching vehicles
🚗60,480 miles driven by our learners 2025-26
🌎9.55 tonnes of CO2 offset 2025-26
📈Around 23% lower fleet emissions thanks to our EVs
We commit to being an entirely carbon neutral driving school, offering ‘Green’ lessons to our students. We wholly appreciate that driving a car (and therefore learning to drive) is a carbon intensive process, along with the manufacture of the car and its components. Therefore, we offset our full driving school carbon usage, covering all the vehicles used by our instructors. For the time period July 2025 to July 2026, our total driving carbon footprint was 9.55 tonnes, and we have offset this via VCS certified carbon reduction programmes across the world. We are proud that this is the seventh year we have done this, and can say with full conviction that we are proud to have been carbon neutral since July 2019.
In the period July 2025 to July 2026, as a group of our 8 instructors, we travelled 67,600 miles, with approximately 60,480 being driven by our learners. That’s the equivalent of driving round the world 2.4 times, or a quarter of the way to the moon! Or more significantly circa 1.96 million reverse bay park maneuvers!
We are proud that within our fleet, we have 3 EVs, which have helped significantly reduce our carbon output by circa 23% when compared to equivalent milage in a ICE vehicle. It’s also really great to know 2 of our trainee instructors are also using EVs, so even our future instructors are doing their bit for the environment.
We put emphasis on eco driving, basic maintenance and manufacturer specific economy drivers. We discuss fuel economy, and the environmental impact that this effects. In summary, we challenge our students to understand their environmental impact from driving, and how they can combat this effectively.
This year we plan some exciting events to give back more to the community and planet. We have scheduled litter picking events locally in Sefton, whereby our instructors, students, friends and families can help keep our local area’s clean and looking lovely.
