Purolator launches $1 billion plan to purchase electrical last-mile supply autos
The parcel provider Purolator Inc. will make investments roughly $1 billion to impress its Canadian community over the subsequent seven years, marking the one largest community funding in its 63-year historical past in an effort to spice up its environmental sustainability, the agency stated right this moment.
The Toronto-based courier stated it can spend greater than $100 million on the plan in 2023 alone. For its funding, the corporate expects so as to add over 100 all-electric autos to its fleet this yr and an further 150 in 2024. The brand new fleet will comprise Ford E-Transit, Motiv Energy Methods EPIC4, and BrightDrop Zevo 600 fashions.
These battery-powered vehicles will embody 25 Ford E-Transit vans in London, Ont.; Richmond, B.C.; and Quebec Metropolis. An additional 55 Motiv and 15 BrightDrop fashions, together with a number of low-speed autos and electrical cargo bikes (e-bikes), might be added later this yr.
Total, the agency will buy greater than 3,500 absolutely electrical last-mile supply autos—accounting for 60% of its complete fleet—and electrify greater than 60 terminals throughout Canada. Purolator additionally says it can cost the autos with inexperienced energy, lowering emissions from electrical energy technology by 100% by means of the usage of renewable sources and by diverting greater than 70% of its waste from landfill.
By selecting the Ford E-Transit mannequin of electrical supply truck, Purolator might be utilizing the identical automobile because the U.S. Postal Service, which final month ordered 9,250 of the models. That contract was a part of USPS’ plan to purchase at the least 66,000 battery electrical autos (BEVs) as a part of its 106,000-truck acquisition plan by 2028.
