Here’s how Australia’s largest electric delivery fleet is changing the way you receive parcels

We’re proud to be leading the way by delivering letters and parcels straight to your door with Australia’s largest electric delivery vehicle fleet. This is just one of the ways we’re working towards achieving our ‘science based target’ to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 15% by 2025 (FY19 baseline). Read on to learn how our electric delivery vehicle fleet is helping the environment, our people and customers.

Our electric fleet on your street

Our army of electric delivery vehicles, which first rolled out in 2019, is now Australia’s largest electric delivery fleet. So far, more than 5,000 of these vehicles are now buzzing around Australia.

We have had five new electric recruits join our national fleet, totaling at eight electric delivery trucks. The Fuso eCanter trucks are being added to Australia Post’s heavy vehicles, but being 100 percent electric with zero emissions, are minus the heavy impact on the planet. 

Reducing our environmental impact

Each postal delivery has a carbon footprint, whether it’s land, sea or air. In a bid to reduce our carbon emissions by 15% by 2025, reducing our own fuel emissions by converting to electric vehicles will help us combat climate change. We are also working together with our largest road and air freight providers to find ways to reduce emissions and the environmental impact on the planet. 

For a start our eDVs and electric bikes cover 15 million kilometres each year—that’s more than once around the earth every day, without using a drop of petrol. And in a step towards Net Zero carbon emissions, any electricity used by the new Fuso eCanter trucks will be offset with renewable energy certificates.   

Making your streets quieter

As well as reducing air pollution on the streets, Australia Post’s electric vehicle fleet is making our deliveries a quieter affair by reducing noise pollution. A benefit to both our drivers and households across Australia, the new eDVs are almost silent. No one has to contend with the ongoing buzz of vehicle or motorbike engine noise all day.  

Reaching your mailbox quicker

Although our eDVs have slower speeds than the old guard motorcycles, they can carry more post, so there is less need to return to the depot as often. Each eDV can carry 100 small parcels and up to 1200 letters helping save delivery times and the planet at the same time too. 

This article was originally published on 20 May 2023.