Rhenus Home Delivery had already managed to expand its fleet of electric commercial vehicles by receiving 110 new trucks in 2023. The company has now more than doubled this figure and has put another 190 electric vehicles into service this year. This means that models such as the Ford eTransit and the Iveco eDaily are now a permanent feature in the fleet. The electric vehicles will operate all over Germany. A particularly large number of them are currently located at the business sites in the Greater Berlin area, Munich and Düsseldorf. Rhenus Home Delivery has also made significant investments in its charging infrastructure and, in total, has installed 150 charging stations at all its business sites.
Keeping an eye on climate goals: preventing CO2 emissions through the new fleet
The new electric vehicles will enable Rhenus Home Delivery to cover a distance of approximately 12 million kilometres using electric power every year and save about 2,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide compared to diesel vehicles. “The electrification of our fleet is a central element in our strategy of significantly reducing our CO2 emissions. We’ll continue to demonstrate our commitment to this issue through further investments during the next few years in order to cut our CO2 emissions by two thirds by the year 2025 and become climate-neutral by 2045,” says Patrick Renziehausen, Managing Director of Rhenus Home Delivery Germany.
The Rhenus business partner, IKEA, has also reached a key milestone in its pursuit of climate-neutral deliveries. “One important partial goal of our sustainability strategy involves enabling all our last-mile deliveries by forwarding agents in Germany to be emission-free. Thanks to our partnership with Rhenus Home Delivery, we’re already managing to have emission-free operations for more than 95 percent of our deliveries in the Berlin metropolitan area,” says Katarzyna Dulko-Gaszyna, Country Sustainability Manager at IKEA Germany.
