Dachser will be making all its deliveries to the heart Freiburg city emission-free.
Using an all-electric vehicle mix of Fuso eCanters, StreetScooters, and cargo bikes – and taking transportation as a whole – this new service reduces CO2 emissions per shipment by 26% in the southwest German city.
In Freiburg city center, Dachser has designated the post code 79098, which encompasses parts of the city’s Altstadt, Neuburg, and Oberau districts, as an emission-free delivery area.
Effective immediately, B2B and B2C customers in this roughly 1.5 sq km zone will receive all their groupage shipments completely emission-free.
“We successfully introduced electrically assisted cargo bikes two years ago, so this is now the next logical step in doing our part to improve the quality of the air and of life in Freiburg’s downtown,” said Michael Gaudlitz, General Manager of Dachser’s Freiburg logistics center.
To make these emission-free deliveries, Dachser will immediately deploy a 7.5-ton all-electric FUSO eCanter, a light truck that will deliver goods either directly to customers or to the microhub operated by partner VeloCARRIER / Roc-Ket Cargo Bikes, located close to downtown.
There, smaller shipments are transferred to electrically assisted cargo bikes or StreetScooters for the delivery runs. The charge point for the electric truck is located at Dachser’s branch in the Breisgau industrial park south of Freiburg, which–like all the logistics provider’s branches in Germany, purchases 100 percent hydroelectric power.
Taking transportation as a whole, collection and line-haul are performed with conventional diesel trucks, this new service reduces CO2 emissions per shipment by 26% on average, particulates emissions by about 47%, and nitrogen oxide emissions by about 41%.
