Overview of the year
100,000 km by electric lorry
June
An environmentally-friendly battery-driven truck transports mail from Zurich to the Engadine.
In June, the Graubünden-based company Hunger Transporte procured a battery-driven lorry in collaboration with Repower. It is used to transport letters from the mail distribution centre in Zurich to the Engadine. In its first year of operation the truck transported around 200 loads, covering 100,000 kilometres in the process. Each load consisted of between six and seven tonnes of letter post. In this pilot project, Repower is financing the vehicle batteries, and can use them to store energy temporarily while the truck is parked. Repower will have this pilot project scientifically monitored. The aim is to gain insights into the use of vehicle batteries in an energy industry environment. Every year, the new battery-powered lorry will be able to save around 40,000 litres of diesel and thus around 120 tonnes of CO2.