DPD expands green fleet with 1,000 new electric vans
DPD has expanded its green fleet after agreeing a offer with Ford for 1,000 E-Transit vans. It will take DPD’s electric powered car or truck (EV) fleet to about 2,500 in whole.
The 3.5t, 135kwh, prolonged-wheelbase vans have 12.4 cubic metres of load place and will run from depots throughout the Uk network from this thirty day period.
The Ford E-Transit order is element of DPD’s eco-friendly pledge. In addition to jogging in excess of 2,500 electric motor vehicles in the Uk, DPD has also invested in a series of recycling and circular economic climate initiatives.
Olly Craughan, head of sustainability, DPDgroup Uk, said: “Getting our arms on the electric powered Ford Transit feels like a actually major instant. 3.5t vans are the workhorse of any delivery fleet, and we are no distinct. We have said all along that we need the most important business van suppliers to step up with cost-effective designs and huge-scale creation of correct-hand drive vans to genuinely get the EV revolution likely in the British isles. And Ford have completed just that.
“People definitely take pleasure in what we are performing with electric motor vehicles and all our other green initiatives. It is the exact same with our major retail consumers as well. They want to see their parcels delivered on eco-friendly DPD vans, for the reason that they know their customers take pleasure in it also.”
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