UK delivery firm Hermes is adding a further 70 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuelled vehicles to its fleet, as part of its emission reduction efforts.
This brings the total to 160 – around 50% of the company’s core hub tractor fleet. Hermes’ use of alternative fuels makes it the largest UK parcel company fleet to employ CNG vehicles, bettered only by retailer John Lewis and Partners.
“Sustainability is a huge focus for us as we recognise our responsibility as one of the UK’s largest consumer delivery companies,” said David Landy, head of fleet at Hermes.
“We are committed to putting sustainability at the heart of every aspect of our business, through innovative products and processes. As such we were an early adopter of CNG as an alternative fuel and are continuing to increase its presence in our fleet, to drive down emissions.”
Each of the new model IVECO S-WAY units being introduced are designed to reduce CO2 emissions by over 80% when compared to a Euro 6 diesel vehicle. This is a reduction of 150 tons of CO2 per vehicle and over 24,000 tons of CO2 across the 160 CNG vehicle fleet annually.
Hermes added other benefits of the CNG vehicles include reductions in air pollution impact, such as 70% less NOX, 99% less particulate matter, 90% less NMHC and 88% less methane.
Gareth Lumsdaine, IVECO UK’s heavy business-line director, added: “An incredibly prominent national operator on our roads, Hermes already run one of the largest IVECO CNG truck fleets.
“We are therefore honoured that they will continue to grow this with us, taking the new IVECO S-WAY CNG and cementing not just our position as a market-leader in natural gas propulsion, but theirs as pioneers in commercial transport decarbonisation.”
