Nanaimo is the first Canada Post depot in Canada to receive electric delivery vans as the company moves to electrify its entire fleet by 2040.
Canada Post has unveiled its first depot using battery-electric delivery vehicles and it’s in Nanaimo.
For the past two weeks, Canada Post workers in Nanaimo have been the first in Canada to deliver the mail in battery-electric vans. Canada Post’s top executives were in Nanaimo Thursday to announce the depot’s 12 corporate vans are now electric, the first in a rollout across the country“With 14,000 vehicles in total, you can understand why it’s so important to make the shift from gas to electric. Our delivery vehicles drove almost 105 million kilometres in 2021. That’s the equivalent of encircling the globe more than 2,500 times,” said Doug Ettinger, Canada Post’s President and CEO.
“The depot is a Canada Post-owned facility so that makes it easier for us to build the infrastructure for the charging stations. The third point is looking at the actual routes that are delivering out of Nanaimo. The routes don’t do more than 50 kilometres per day and so that was a number we targeted because the vehicles themselves have a certain range-life,” said Sally Dam, Canada Post’s Director of Urban Delivery Strategy.
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