The grand-ducal postal service has officially started its electrical transition. The plan: to switch to green electricity and reduce its energy consumption.
The medium-term goal is to have 90% of company cars run on green electricity, announces Post in a press release.
The switch will be worthwhile: Last year alone, its car fleet consumed 1.5 million litres of petrol and diesel over 13 million kilometres. This means that hundreds of thousands of tonnes less CO2 are emitted into the air via electric mobility.
Luxembourg’s Post is not alone on the path to the green energy: Swiss Post is also phasing out electric vehicles in Zurich and Bern. Before 2030, the whole of Switzerland is to be supplied with letters only via electric vehicles.
The German postal service, on the other hand, has long been committed to electric mobility. As early as 1938, the German Post had around 2,600 electric vehicles in use. In 2014, the Post then had its own branch for the production of its vehicles, which was sold to the Luxembourg-based group Odin Automotive in 2020.