It is part of the company's plans to tackle carbon emissions
A number of its larger fleet vehicles at the Manchester vehicle operating centre, as well as locations in Sheffield and the Midlands will see heavy good vehicles transition to be fuelled by renewable diesel alternative Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil .
Royal Mail announced further plans to continue to increase its HVO deployment across its local and national distribution fleet network over the coming years, aiming to reduce its direct emissions by up to 200,000 tonnes of CO2e. Rob Fowler, Fleet Director at Royal Mail, said: “We’ve made great progress in decarbonising our operation by introducing 5,000 electric vehicles into our final mile fleet but we also need to focus on our HGVs. At present, the electric and hydrogen alternatives are still in development for HGVs.
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