Royal Mail adds electric delivery vans to fleet

Royal Mail is adding 2,100 electric vans to its delivery fleet, including over 1,000 British-built Peugeot E-Partners and 1,000 E-Expert vans.

The vans, which will hit the streets this week, are the first of Royal Mail’s electric vehicles to bear the cypher of King Charles III.

Under the deal, Royal Mail plans to deploy more than half of its new Peugeot electric vans in time for the Christmas ‘peak period’ to enhance service and greener deliveries to customers during the busiest time of the year.

Greg Sage, Royal Mail’s deputy director for corporate affairs and ESG, said: “We’re proud that our latest tranche of electric vehicles has been produced at Peugeot’s Ellesmere Port plant. This is an important part of our work to expand the UK’s largest electric delivery fleet and to remain the UK’s greenest delivery company.”

Peugeot has supplied Royal Mail with vehicles since 2009, and electric vans since 2014 when the first E-Partner was delivered to Royal Mail. The brand is also supplying 1,000 fully electric E-EXPERT vans as part of the deal.

The British postal service company had around 5,000 electric vans in operation as of July 2024, said to be the UK’s largest EV delivery fleet.