Suppose you want to invest some cash in reducing your personal carbon emissions - can you save more carbon by replacing your car with an EV or by swapping your boiler with a heat pump (and how much would this cost?). Unfortunately, the answer depends on lots of variables such as how far you drive and how much is your heating bill, do you have solar panels – if so how much power are you currently exporting? So I have prepared a tool to help you estimate your savings and in this post I use it to illustrate some examples. You probably know that energy costs for an EV are lower than for a diesel or petrol car. You may be surprised that the heat pump can reduce your energy bills too, using prices from April after the cap changes.
Click here for the EV tool and here for the heat pump one. These are only estimates! If you find them useful let me know.
