Austrian Post has bought 50 natural gas-powered vehicles from Volkswagen in a move towards reducingemissions from its delivery fleet.
The first 20 VW Caddy Ecofuel vans are being put into operation in Styria this month, and theremaining 30 will be introduced into service in other regions of the country by the end of theyear, the postal group said.
By using the vehicles, the group will reduce its CO2 emissions by 67 tonnes a year. The moveis being supported by the Austrian government’s financial programme to encourage companies tooperate an environmentally-friendly commercial fleet.
“The new natural gas vans are an important further step by the company in its environmentalpolicy and an important contribution towards optimising all our logistics activities takingenvironment and sustainability aspects into account,” commented board member Walter Hitziger.
Austrian Post operates the largest commercial fleet in Austria, with 200 trucks, 6,000 vansand cars, and about 1,200 mopeds.
