Royal Mail
Royal Mail has a fleet of over 33,000 commercial delivery vehicles operating across the UK and has one of the largest fleets in Europe. Royal Mail vehicles travel approximately c.600 million miles a year and use 153 million litres of diesel.
In order to lessen the impact that their transport and distribution operations have on the environment, Royal Mail has ordered both the Smith Edison and Newton higher function delivery vehicles.
The Smith electric vehicles will be deployed in London, both in parcel and post distribution operations.
The Edison and the Newton vehicles have restricted top speeds of up to 50mph and are capable of covering 150 miles on one battery charge.
Royal mail has set a target of a reduction in normalised Group wide fleet fossil fuel usage by 14% from 2004/05 levels by 2010.
