At a Glance
In 2022, An Post’s entire fleet:
- Travelled less kilometres than 2021
- Used less litres of fuel. 846,240 litres of fuel saved in 2022
- Increased efficiency by 2.2% compared to 2021
- Avoided €1.52m in fuel costs
Our Fleet
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Our fleet
We can make a significant environmental impact by decarbonising our fleet. We currently have 1,020 electric vehicles (EVs), 172 e-trikes and three 7.5 tonne electric trucks in our fleet.
Light commercial vehicles
In 2022, we reviewed our transport strategy to accommodate for supply chain challenges with electric vehicles as well as the availability of alternative fuel options and dynamic route planning. We remain committed to replacing diesel vans with EVs, and with over 1,300 chargers installed to date, we have the largest private electric vehicle charging network in Ireland. We continue to review the introduction of new DC fast chargers to enhance the utilisation of our EVs. In doing so we reduce charging time, resulting in greater flexibility in turning EVs around for evening collections and deliveries.
Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs)
Our memberships of EV100, the Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe (ALICE), and the Freight Transport Association of Ireland (FTAI) ensure we are at the forefront of the developing technology of clean energy generation for HGVs and support the development of our strategies for the decarbonisation of our HGV fleet.
Fleet efficiency
While electrification of our fleet is critical to our decarbonisation strategy, our drivers also have a key role to play in accelerating our progress. In 2022 we continued with our successful eco-driver training programme to improve fleet efficiency and limit fuel consumption in our diesel vehicles. 72% of our drivers have now completed eco-driver training and we are on track to achieve our target to train 100% of drivers in eco-driving by 2023. In 2022 we achieved a 2.2% improvement in our fleet efficiency against our target of a 3% improvement per annum to 2025. We did not meet our target improvement of 3% as we instead focussed on relaxing some of the measures we implemented during the pandemic. We plan to bring our fleet efficiency back on target by increasing the number of employees being trained under our eco-driver training programme, the onboarding of new vehicles and leveraging improvements generated in our fleet telematics systems. Nevertheless, we avoided €1.52m in fuel costs in 2022 through a combination of our fleet efficiency measures and fuel savings from traveling fewer kilometres.
Alternatively Fuelled Vehicles
30% of our fleet currently runs on alternative fuel sources to diesel. This includes our EVs and our HGVs that run on HVO fuel. We are on track to meet our target of 50% of the fleet to run on alternative fuel sources by 2025.
Home Garaging
In 2022 we investigated EV home garaging by running a pilot to install monitored EV charging points at employees’ homes. While the trial was successful and it was possible to identify accurately the power supplied by the employees’ home supply for the charging of their EVs, it did not resolve the key issue of employees having to pay for the charging and being out of pocket for periods of time before reimbursement.
