British adults will drive 285,012 miles in their life –equal to 11 times around the world
To offset the carbon from travelling around the world 11 times, 11,400 trees would need to be planted. With life returning to “normal”, a third of workers plan to avoid public transport when they go back to their workplace, and one in four (25 percent) will commute by car more now than they did pre-pandemic.
The study also found 56 percent of car owners relied on their vehicles more during the pandemic, with 27 percent saying this was to avoid public transport, and a further 24 percent used them to check in on family and friends.
Three in ten even purchased a new car amid the lockdowns.
Furthermore, almost half (49 percent) of all journeys are solo, with no one else in the car, but 34 percent would prefer to have a passenger with them going forward.
And one-sixth simply prefers travelling to work in their own vehicle than the likes of buses, tubes and trains.
