NZ Post toward cutting emissions

A LIGHT ELECTRIC TRUCK HAS COME OUT WITH TOP MARKS AFTER NZ POST TRIALLED IT FOR SIX MONTHS, MAKING SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS ON FUEL COSTS AND DRAMATICALLY CUTTING CARBON EMISSIONS

Arecent report details the performance of the FUSO eCanter, which NZ Post has been operating between its North Shore Operation Centre and Silverdale Depot, north of Auckland, for the trial.

Sustainability and property team members Maddie Ashby, senior environmental manager, and Cees Ebskamp, energy manager, have analysed performance data and declared the vehicle “a great success”.

They hope the findings from their report will be helpful to other contractors within the NZ

Post network as well as other companies in the delivery and transport sector.

“Learnings will help enable NZ Post to roll out low carbon technology in the transport network,” says group sustainability manager Dawn Baggaley.

The trial resulted in large fuel cost savings of 77.3 per cent lower than the diesel equivalent (as the electricity costs from charging the truck are much lower than diesel fuel) as well as carbon emissions