You Will Need to Plant 150 Trees if You Drive a Petrol Car – But Just 18 For an EV

Moneyshake has compared the CO2 emissions of 100 petrol/diesel and 100 electric cars to show you what they equal in real life. From how many trees you’d need to plant to offset your car’s emissions to how many smartphones could be charged, see how environmentally friendly your vehicle really is.

strong>Key Findings:

• Petrol/diesel cars emit 7x more emissions than electric
• You’d need to plant 25 trees in a year if you use a petrol/diesel car to offset your annual emissions. Switch to electric and you’d only need to plant 3.
• A petrol car’s life cycle produces the same emissions as 3 million smartphones
• Driving a petrol/diesel car for a year is equal to 63 rubbish bags going to landfill. This is only 9 for an electric, or 0 if you drive a BEV.
• 912 bulbs would need to be swapped to energy-saving LEDs to offset the emissions of your petrol/diesel car over its lifetime.