More than £20,000 has been spent on an electric car for staff at Barnsley Council to use as a pool car.
The Nissan Leaf has been paid for with grants from the government and the Air Quality and Climate Group and is based in either Westgate or Gateway Plaza.
It is intended to allow employees to leave their own cars at home and freeing up car parking spaces and will also help to reduce the council's carbon emissions.
Staff will be asked to consider using the vehicle if their journeys are less than 10 miles and costs 2p per mile to run compared with 13p per mile for a petrol vehicle.
There is no road tax to pay, zero carbon emissions and it has a range of 109 miles on a full charge.
The service and maintenance cost will be met by the council's environmental services department.
Coun Roy Miller, environment spokesman, said: “This is a very welcome addition to the council's fleet of vehicles. My sincere thanks go to Defra and the Air Quality and Climate Group, whose generous funding means this car hasn't cost the council any money.
“Not only will it be a great benefit to staff but it's a further cleaner, greener step towards the council's carbon neutral ambition.”
