UPS expands UK and German fleet
After a successful nine month trial. UPS announce an order of extra electric vehicles in Germany and the UK.
Six vehicles will be introduced into UPS’s UK fleet in February 2009, including the vehicle that was used for testing until now. The remaining six will operate in Germany.
Developed by British manufacturer Modec, the vehicles will operate out of UPS’s Camden facility, which lies within London’s Low Emission Zone and is the company’s central package facility in the capital.
The order follows a successful nine month trial of the vehicle’s capabilities earlier this year, where it averaged eighteen miles per day and a battery consumption of 25 pct of full charge per day during the course of its operations in North-West, East and Central London. Each zero emission vehicle can undertake one hundred miles on one overnight charge, with batteries in future models set to increase the range to 150 miles per two-three hour charge. Because it is an electric vehicle, it requires no road tax, MOT or tachograph and is not liable for the congestion charge.
