The Royal Mail Are Going Green


Now it isn’t very often that we see the name ‘Royal Mail’ and ‘green’ in the same sentence purely because the nature of their business requires them to have a huge number of vehicles on our roads.

This week they embarked on a new, cleaner journey by delivering parcels in nine commercial trucks of varying sizes out of Royal Mail’s central London depot. The vehicles were are fully electric and have been home-grown in Oxfordshire by the automaker Arrival. The maximum they can do is 100 miles from a full charge.

Previously known as Charge Auto, Arrival are equipped to produce over 50,000 electric vehicles per year using nothing but AI and robots in their new Banbury factory.

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The Royal Mail successfully trialled electric vehicles earlier on this year and have since committed to purchasing 100 all-electric vehicles from Peugeot. Such a commitment has meant that they are now installing vast quantities of charging points in the depots up and down the country.

Don’t expect to see these on our roads just yet as plans revealed that they won’t be going into service until December this year. This will give Arrival time to produce the vehicles as well as alloying the Royal Mail to install charging points.

This won’t make a huge difference just yet as 100 vehicles in a fleet of 49,000 is just a drop in the ocean but it is great to see them making a start.

Location: Swansea, UK

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